By Stephanie Cardon December 30, 2013 Here’s my tug from the archive, with notes. My picks are pieces I found creative in and of themselves, either because of the way they were written, or because of their author’s approach to…
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This week, Christopher Bedford, the Henry and Lois Foster Director for The Rose Art Museum, Ruba Katrib, Curator at the Sculpture Center and New York-based painter Ryan Sullivan convened to review 389 artist applications for the third Artadia Award cycle…
………………………………………………………………………….. As we rapidly approach this Friday’s Big Red Shindig (for which tickets are still available), we want to share with you examples from some of the great artists we’ll be working with this year. We can’t wait to see…
Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events, screenings, exhibitions, performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see: / / / / / / / / / / / / Thursday July 31 – Sunday…
For five weeks early in this year, half of a modestly sized art space in Boston’s South End became a field of infinite possibility, courtesy of chroma key green and the kijidome group. Susan Metrican, Lucy Kim, Carlos Jiménez Cahua,…
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 & see: / / / Events / / / Thursday January 23 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 280 Fenway, Boston…
“The whole world is watching!” This emblematic chant for accountability, which echoed through streets nationwide for the duration of the Occupy protests, would have been both meaningless and impossible without the technologies we have at hand. Watching, we were: on…
By John Pyper December 31, 2013 To ask an editor to go back through the blur that was the last year? To ask them to renavigate the rough seas of putting together this labor of love? It’s immoral. How does…
Ah, the list. The end of the year always means that the reading public is beleaguered with lists, each purporting to tell us the best and worst contribution to culture over the past twelve months. I’m always torn with lists;…
On opening day of the 2013 TransCultural Exchange Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts, a green laser beam shot across the dark expanse between Boston University’s School of Law and the newer Student Village skyscraper. Florian Dombois, the German…
Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events, screenings, exhibitions, performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see this week: • • • Events • • • Wednesday October 30 MassArt, Tower Auditorium*, 621 Huntington…
Last weekend, hundreds of artists from more than 40 countries convened in Boston for the biennial TransCultural Exchange Conference. Held at Boston University, this year’s TCE, Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts: Engaging Minds, boasted 50 panels with artists,…
kijidome is the brainchild of Sean Downey, Lucy Kim, Carlos Jiménez Cahua, and Susan Metrican. The four artists are inaugurating their collaborative space at 59 Wareham Street this coming Saturday with an exhibition titled S01E01 which juxtaposes works by Dennis…
BR&S’s editors are beginning a regular blogpost highlighting events and exhibitions we’ve seen and enjoyed, but, for any number of reasons, weren’t able to cover. Usually, that reason is time; we feel fortunate to live in a city where…
Into the wake of the 2012 Creative Time Summit, held almost exactly one year ago, was cast An Open Letter to Critics Writing About Political Art. According to its co-writers Steve Lambert and Stephen Duncombe, the letter’s addressees were shirking…
Last week, BR&S editors Stephanie Cardon and Leah Triplett sat down with Michael Mittelman at his Waltham Street studio in Boston, where, until recently, ASPECT Magazine was published. Mittelman founded ASPECT: The Chronicle of New Media Art in 2003 as…
By Stephanie Cardon June 17, 2013 This conversation with John C. Gonzalez followed his participation in Odd Spaces, last month’s day-long performance art event at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, curated by Liz Munsell. With Family Meal Gonzalez initiated…
It is curious that Mark Cooper’s work, which is the most visually and spatially boisterous, the most materially lustful (though not the most fetishistic) of the four finalists’, is that which directly references Buddhist cultures, concepts and practices of…
The phrases “never talk to strangers” and “stranger danger” are so ingrained within our culture that they’ve become part of our lexicon. Amalia Pica knows this all too well, having lived in Argentina at a time when the country was…