Eileen Myles at Schoolhouse by Brian Goslow Eileen Myles is always busy. Since last fall’s publication of “I Must Be Living Twice:New and Selected Poems 1975-2014” (Ecco), she’s been featured in The New York Times T Magazine (“The Poet Idolized by a New Generation of Feminists”); had the audio version of her 1994 breakthrough autobiographical novel “Chelsea Girls” released; flown to New Zealand, Australia and England for a series of readings and put out “Aloha/irish trees,” a record of new and old poems (Fonograf Editions). Now she’s about to have her first art exhibition, featuring 20 photographs culled from the nearly 3,000 images she’s posted on Instagram. The show is the idea of longtime friend and Schoolhouse Gallery director/owner Mike Carroll, who said Myles was an early adaptor to Twitter and Instagram at a time when many people were skeptical about … [Read more...] about Life in the Fast Lane
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Say Cheese! Somerville Toy Camera Festival
By Puloma Ghosh Somerville, MA - The Somerville Toy Camera Festival, spanning through five different galleries across Somerville, shows how one can make art just by playing around. Now in its second year, the Toy Camera Festival exhibits the potential of toy cameras when placed in the right hands. The Brickbottom Gallery (1 Fitchburg St.) in south Somerville is currently host to an array toy camera photographs by artists all across the nation. Most of the work uses Holga medium format plastic cameras, and various pinhole cameras. The subjects vary from nature, people, abstract close-ups, and urban landscapes, but the nature of the toy cameras gives every piece a soft, surreal look to them, as if snapshots of a dream. “La Porte des Étoiles” and “Aube Lunaire” by Romary Daval, both taken with a film canister pinhole camera, show scenes of passing night. A distant tree line is … [Read more...] about Say Cheese! Somerville Toy Camera Festival