By BIG RED Print this article January 7, 2005 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at SoWa First Friday.
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 BIG RED Print this article On December 16th, LEF Foundation announced their annual General Fund grants for 2004. Thirty-seven organizations, groups and individuals received funding this year, with a total allocation of $340,000. Recipients include: in the Visual Arts…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article Scott Prior: New Paintings Alpha Gallery 14 Newbury Street Through January 5 In the decades that I have attentively followed the work of the Northampton based, representational painter, Scott Prior, he now appears to…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article East Village USA Curated by Dan Cameron New Museum of Contemporary Art 556 West 22nd Street Through March 19 Suddenly it’s the 1980s all over again in this lively and insightful exhibition. The intent…
By MATTHEW NASH Print this article Boston is a college town. With this comes a constant turn-over of new artists, new ideas, and new energy. Much of the independent scene in our city is built on this energy, and fed…
By MATTHEW NASH Print this article In a previous issue of Big RED, I wrote about science-fiction and its role as a gauge of our current collective fears. Good sci-fi extrapolates our underlying paranoia and expands them into the future…
By JASON DEAN Print this article …Yet man to-day is the same man that drank from his enemy’s skull in the dark German forests, that sacked cities, and stole his women from neighboring clans like any howling aborigine. The flesh-and-blood…
By THOMAS DORAN Print this article At the end of January two Boston venues will have played host to expansive exhibitions by the Welsh artist Cerith Wyn Evans; both the List Visual Arts Center at MIT and the MFA. Wyn…
By LISA MITCHELL Print this article “No cornering or stampeding,” founder and curator James Hull says smiling warmly at people closing in on both entrances of America’s only subway gallery. “5-4-3-2-1,” he shouts, and the crowd funnels in greedily grabbing…
By JAMES MANNING Print this article For the first week in December, the art world’s elite descended upon Miami Beach for Art Basel 2004. Several smaller fairs including Miami Scope and NADA gave art lovers plenty to look at. The…
By MICAH J. MALONE Print this article Perhaps ever since the inception of conceptual art many artists have insisted on using whatever medium necessary to achieve an idea. Not willing to assign themselves to a singular medium and become hostage…
By ANNEKA LENSSEN Print this article “Cut” works gently. None of the works are quite human-scaled. The effect is that of an alien and enchanting terrain, parts Lilliputian and parts Brobdingnagian.* For Inhabitat XI, Chris Nau drew on and cut…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Print this article Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the undisputed kings of construction paper animation chose not to create “Team America: World Police” with their favorite medium or even live actors, but marionettes. Puppets, which look remarkably…
By CHRISTOPHE PEREZ Print this article One of the most intriguing yet compelling art moments of this Fall has been Huyghe + Corbusier: Harvard Project. The event, meant to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Carpenter Center for the Visual…
By MATTHEW NASH Print this article In the last issue of Big RED, I reviewed the exhibition Intimachine at Art Interactive. During the opening, I was introduced to the artist Brian Knep, whose work is included in the show, as…
By BIG RED Print this article December 3, 2004 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at SoWa First Friday.
By BIG RED Print this article The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum announced the selection of Renzo Piano and the Renzo Piano Building Workshop to plan and design a new building on the Museum’s property. The structure will meet the physical…
