By BIG RED Print this article Boston may be small, but it certainly has a lot going on. These past few weeks have seen a wide variety of openings and events, and we at Big RED have done our best…
By BIG RED Print this article It was a sunny Friday afternoon when the phone rang at the Big RED offices in Jamaica Plain. On the other end of the line was Tim Bailey from Oni Gallery, calling with a…
By MATTHEW NASH Print this article This Valentines Day, Big RED & Shiny has it’s first birthday. That’s right, our little pink website is now a year old, and we can now allow ourselves the indulgence of looking back on…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Print this article Three years ago, Jason Asselin and Marybeth Mungovan, both 2001 graduates, responded to an open call by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) for a site-specific work to enhance the in-progress Boston…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article Beer and Burgers With: Camilo Alvarez, director of Samson Projects Currently showing: iDominicanzo- The New Dominican Wave in Art This piece launches a new series “Beer and Burgers With…” For several years I have…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article Pretty Sweet: The Sentimental Image in Contemporary Art DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park Including: Leika Akiyama, Ilona Anderson, Robert Arnold, Doug Bell, Kathleen Bitetti, Dana C. Chandler, Jr. (Akin Duro), Cynthia Constentino, Christine Couture,…
By BEN SLOAT Print this article The Museum of Fine Arts currently has a photography show tucked away in the Japanese print gallery called Photographs by Hiroshi Sugimoto: The Sylvan Barnet and William Burto Collection. Though it is surprising to…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Print this article Copying something creates a fake. Creating that fake object can be quite simple, you need only find an original and copy it, bearing in mind that he closer the semblance to the original, the…
By BIG RED Print this article January 22, 2005 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the opening of “!Dominicanazo!” at Samson Projects.
By BIG RED Print this article Then again, Picasso was actually the Picasso of Henry Ford’s day, so the title of this news item is misleading and wrong. Perhaps a decent adjustment would be to say that Lee Iacocca was…
By BIG RED Print this article On January 28, 2005, Big RED and Shiny will host our first fundraising event at the Boston Center for the Arts Mills Gallery (539 Tremont Street in Boston’s South End). Titled Big RED :…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article Restorying Chelsea Creek: 100 Views, Part One Atlantic Works: A Collaborative Space for Art and Ideas 80 Border Street East Boston For info and hours: Stacy Chacker 617 567 5882 Ext. 241 Through January…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Print this article I was suspicious when I walked into the opening, the gallery turned into a discotèque, bass pumping, dimmed lighting, a video projection—presumably of Caleb Weintraub’s—projected on a wall. Galerie Swanström is a newbie in…
By ANNEKA LENSSEN Print this article I went to see work by Natalie Loveless and Christopher Gardner, winners of the Bromfield Art Gallery’s 2004 SOLO Competition (selected by MIT’s List Center’s Bill Arning), late Saturday afternoon, as the first flakes…
By JESSICA POSER Print this article To make an exact image is to insure against disappearance, to cannibalize life until it is safely and permanently a specular image, a ghost. (Haraway 1992) The twentieth century is, in the words of…
By REESE INMAN Print this article This review came about as a sort of extended response to Charles Giuliano’s Jan. 9 comments re: Daniel Dueck and Lily van der Stokker at Allston Skirt Gallery. With characteristic frankness, Charles writes: “Once…
By SHIN YU PAI Print this article Last fall marked the debut of The Analogous Series, a new multimedia events series run by poet and art critic Tim Peterson and hosted in Cambridge. Focusing on curating together poets with visual…
By BIG RED Print this article As part of our continuing effort to encourage dialogue among the diverse aspects of the Boston community, Big RED & Shiny asked a variety of culture-makers to respond to the following statement: We as…
