By NATALIE LOVELESS Print this article Let me begin with a quotation: What abstraction once tried to pull off is in fact being accomplished before our very eyes: the end of REPRESENTATIVE art and the substitution…of a PRESENTATIVE art…. (a)…
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By BIG RED Print this article TOM RIDGE’S THE VILLAGE by MATTHEW NASH MOTION SICKNESS & THE BOURNE SUPREMACY by JASON DEAN SPIDERMAN 2: THE CHRISTIAN HERO by BEN SLOAT SCI-FI TRADITION & THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK by MATTHEW NASH…
By BIG RED Print this article Many former industrial towns over the past fifty years have experienced slow deaths. When the main employer for the town shuts down it slowly tugs the supporting social and economic climate into its vortex,…
By BIG RED PUBLISHER Print this article That’s right, more new editors for Big RED! Starting with Issue #9, we are proud to announce that the team of Christophe Perez and April Julich Perez will be joining Big RED and…
By NATHAN LEWIS Print this article This season at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, a large-scale exhibition of the work of Matthew Ritchie is an astounding accomplishment of mental power, organization, and breadth. The exhibition is comprised of canvas…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Print this article I first met Fereshteh Toosi and Carolyn Lambert after a presentation they gave at the The Berwick Research Institute in late June. During this presentation, they handed out a numerically based questionnaire, asking all…
By ROY STANFIELD Print this article Marjetica Potrc’s Urgent Architecture at the MIT List Visual Arts Center is so practical and so “green” that it would be very difficult to distinguish this exhibition from what one would find in a…
By CHRISTOPHE PEREZ Print this article Two current major exhibitions in Boston feature artists that can be regarded as outsiders: Kai Althoff at the ICA, Boston, and Barry McGee at the Rose Art Museum, Waltham. Although it is not obvious…
By KIMBERLY POTVIN Print this article Although it is difficult, let’s be realistic. There are two primary goals that every artist has while struggling through the mish-mash, aptly titled, “graduate school.” The first, and most important achievement is to be…
By MICAH MALONE Print this article MJM: In your essay for the last issue of Big Red and Shiny you use Eve Sussman’s video and the Nicholas Berg beheading tape to frame your argument. I’m wondering if you could expand…
By NATALIE LOVELESS Print this article After a series of interviews with local performance artists and organizers, as well as attending all the performance events I could manage over the past few months, I sat down to write something about…
By BIG RED Print this article Having failed to deliver the needed revenue to cover expenses of operation, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has laid off 23 staff members thoughout various departments in an attempt to balance the budget…
By BIG RED Print this article We are proud to announce that we have launched a new and improved FORUM here at Big RED. It is a free, perl-based forum called YABB (Yet Another Bulletin Board) that was recommended by…
By BIG RED PUBLISHER Print this article It took a lot of work and a long time to get Big RED & Shiny online, to shape its vision and build our core group of writers and reviewers. For the first…
By MICAH J. MALONE Print this article Google-ing the Real is a group show of 11 artists from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, all engaged in the “complex interaction between technology and everyday life.” For this exhibition,…
By KIMBERLY POTVIN Print this article Upon entering the NAO Project Gallery, one is instantly taken aback by the flawless appearance and high quality of Asuka Ohsawa’s work. Each painting consists of a tightly rendered gouache-on-paper drawing, blending together solid…
By NATHAN LEWIS Print this article “One Pill makes you larger And one pill makes you small, And the ones that Mother gives you, Won’t do anything at all.” White Rabbit, from Surrealistic Pillow by Jefferson Airplane, 1967. If you’re…
By JANE HUDSON Print this article Video is the language of our culture. Video images signal to us a technological present that reveals without reflection, and can only be witnessed as it continues to present itself in an ever-flowing extreme…
By BEN SLOAT Print this article By means of the 3rd dimension used in minature, Joe Fig has happily provoked the nuances of what it is to be an art lover. Whether his objects can be labeled as sculpture, diorama,…
By MICAH J. MALONE Print this article The work of Tim Noble and Sue Webster, now on view at the MFA, is one of the more unique contemporary exhibitions Boston has displayed in years. The British couple, partners in both…