By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article Charles Giuliano is willing to sacrifice his liver for a good interview. Recently, he began publishing his Beer and Burgers series, in which he sits down with those involved in Boston’s arts and takes…
Born out of a conversation in 2002 between an SMFA graduate student (Sean Horton) and instructor (Matthew Nash) about the viability of bringing arts coverage in Boston to the web, Big Red & Shiny has since been a labor of…
Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events, screenings, exhibitions, performances. Here are our choices for you to go and see this week: • Events Tuesday April 2 Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Pozen Center for Interrelated…
By FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH Over the last twenty-one months, Bostonians have been putting an unusual amount of thought into the state of their art world, wondering aloud how we might make this a better place for visual art: more exhibitions, more…
By JANE HUDSON First, let’s say thanks to Matt Nash, Matt Gamber, Micah Malone, James Nadeau, Steve Aishman, Tom Marquet and all the other contributors for the largess that has been Big Red. I knew all these folks when they…
By JIM MANNING If you owned a gallery, showed or performed your art, or if you just happened to go to an exhibit opening in the Boston / Cambridge area during the past six years then odds are pretty good…
By BIG RED & SHINY The Roundtable is a forum in which the Big RED & Shiny editors discuss issues in contemporary art today. Periodically these discussions result in questions worth further discussion, and this column proposes these ideas and…
Observations on Cyberarts. The Boston Cyberarts Festival is upon us. This biennial festival began on Friday the 24th and is taking place in and around Boston over the course of 10 days. I have a confession to make. I have…
THE FUTURE: BOSTON LACKS ALTERNATIVE SPACES? By Greg Cook A month back, Matt Nash of Big Red & Shiny wrote an essay lamenting that in Boston the “alternative gallery scene is non-existent.”It struck a chord with thinking I’ve been doing about…
By STEVE AISHMAN I watched a new neighbor move-in over the past few days. Most of her big boxes included multiple types of exercise equipment (abs, arms, cardio), HD TV’s for the living room, bedroom and kitchen (she lives in…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND I ran into Bill Arning, the Curator of MIT’s List Visual Arts Center, at a talk at MIT on March 11 and he gave me the scoop: Laura Donaldson was leaving the BCA. The leadership there was…
By MATTHEW GAMBER This summer, Big RED is taking some time to find an outlet for the AC, and we will be publishing once a month for the duration of the season. Before we begin unplugging the electrical nest of…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Print this article This past autumn, Art Interactive hosted the exhibition and game show “Art Show Down,” produced by Jeff Warmouth and Roland Smart. This television game show was shot in front of a live…
By HEIDI MARSTON When I first started writing this I had trouble putting into words what it exactly it was that made me so psyched to be a contestant on Art Show Down. So I wrote an article and was…
By MICAH J. MALONE Fall is among us, and for Boston that means a flood of students. It’s also the time when the best exhibition venues gear up for those students. It is no secret that the best places to…
By JASON DEAN Editor’s Note: In issue #46 of Big RED & Shiny, Jason Dean wrote a piece about the German collaborative eTeam and their “International Airport Montello” project. Since that piece, Dean has become a part of the project,…
By BEN SLOAT On view until September 9th at the Green Street Gallery is the multimedia exhibition Astronauts, Monsters, and Silicon Flowers. A dark and quirky rejoinder to the end of summer and the arrival of sober autumn, this show…
By MATTHEW GAMBER Readers, donors – dedicated and new: No commemorative DVD’s were offered! No tote bags! No coffee mugs! No operators were standing by! No phones! Yet, you continued to respond! Here at Big RED, we want to extend…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Print this article W. W. Marquis de Sade D.? * ONI art-performance space will never open again. No, you will not be seeing the scintillating opener Quadrosonic Porn, a 3-screen video extravaganza from NY. In…
