By BIG RED April 4th 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the Rhys Gallery for the opening of Synergetic, featuring the work of Lana Z. Caplan, Harvey Loves Harvey and Reese Inman Photos by James Manning.…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR This April 10th, the House Ways and Means Committee proposed a budget that would include a 6% funding increase for the Massachusetts Cultural Council. This proposal overall is $3 million more than Governor Mitt Romney’s…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR The Institute of Contemporary Art has announced the finalists for the 2006 ICA Artist Prize Honoring Outstanding Boston Artist. This year’s finalists are Sheila Gallagher, Jane D. Marsching, Kelly Sherman, and Rachel Perry Welty. The…
By BIG RED Do you remember when PBS would interrupt your favorite shows to ask for money? Or when Jerry Lewis and his friends asked for your support? Every telethon appealed to the better angels of our nature, with banks…
By CHARLES GIULIANO The work of the Spanish master, Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828), is so richly diverse and complex, that depending upon what is sampled, it is possible to present him as the progenitor of just about any…
By MATTHEW GAMBER Today was Sunday; this is 41, our next offering. I have liked them both, simultaneously. Some of you, no doubt, will be reading this issue asynchronously with how we have experienced it: on the brink of having…
By GERALD ROJEK When asked to review the Frank Stella: 1958 exhibition at the Sackler Museum at Harvard University, I kept asking myself whether the current generation of painters would be interested in Frank Stella’s work, let alone a body…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Deep Wounds is nothing new from Brian Knep, though it was a commissioned piece, and—to his credit—by both the Office for the Arts of Harvard University and the Department of Systems Biology of Harvard Medical School. If…
By PHAEDRA SHANBAUM A year ago, American Repertory Theater director, Robert Woodruff, approached Boston-based video artist Denise Marika about a possible collaboration on an unwritten project by Highway Ulysses playwright Rinde Eckert. Marika, an artist who usually creates her work…
By ERIN M. SADLER Contemporary Fine Artists are unconsciously and strategically placed in the position of an economical base for a multi-billion dollar industry. Veiled by way of ideology, Art maintains earning an actual income convincingly impossible for the Artist.…
By BIG RED March 25th, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town for the opening of the second exhibit at Second Gallery: “I Love You More Than Life (and That’s Not Saying Much)” by Goody-B. Wiseman and “A…
By BIG RED March 21st, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town for the opening of “Projecting in Light” A multimedia installation with Bebe Beard and Linda Leslie Brown. The exhibit is at the Casella Gallery at Wentworth…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Documentary filmmaker Rebecca Dreyfus’ Stolen, will be featured as part of the 4th Annual Film Festival of Boston this April. Stolen recounts the story of 1990 art heist from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Among…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR This past month, the New York State Supreme Court dismissed a case contesting the ethics of street photography and whether it violates the rights of those individuals photographed. Erno Nussenzweig of Union City, New Jersey,…
By BIG RED The Big RED Anti-telethon is underway, and now is your chance to support our little pink website. It doesn’t take much, just a few dollars from you, for us to continue bringing coverage of the arts in…
By LUANNE STOVALL Editor’s note: This piece is the first in a series of articles concerned with a new model for art education. In response to the questions submitted to Big RED writers concerning the role of art in academia,…
By KATHLEEN BITETTI An interview with a true Citizen Artist Sand T is an artist, activist, and founder of artSPACE@16. She has been doing some amazing community building for artists and the arts in Malden, MA. She has founded a…
By MICAH J. MALONE Take a stroll through our new issue and you will be impressed with some new updates. For one, take a quick look through our LINKS section, which our publisher has updated and formatted quite impressively. Here…
By CHARLES GIULIANO There was a circus like ambiance last Sunday when I attended a spate of openings in a cluster of galleries at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut. I downloaded directions from Mapquest as it had…
By MICAH J. MALONE March 8th marked the last day the MFA screened the fabulous documentary Zizek!. With an addictive speech pattern where the Slovenian thinker seems to literally breathe Lacan and Marx, Slavoj Zizek has acquired a major following…