Monthly Archives: June, 2007

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LAURA DONALDSON TO LEAVE MILLS GALLERY

By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Laura Donaldson was informed last February that her days with the Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) were numbered. The BCA no longer wanted a Director for its Mills Gallery; a reorganization of its management…

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NEW LINKS SECTION

By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR One of the things we want to do with Big RED & Shiny is connect artists with each other, and with organizations and conversations that can help them make a difference. Our links section is…

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A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE

By STEVE AISHMAN “You see, visiting art exhibitions is a terrible act of violence that we perpetrate on ourselves.” – Trotsky “He has helped to preserve, protect, and present the cultural and artistic heritage of our world.” – President George…

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“THE WHITE CUBE”

By THOMAS MARQUET #19: Thomas Marquet’s comic strip about life in a gallery. “The White Cube” comics can be read in series in the Big RED & Shiny Collections section. Thomas Marquet is a cartoonist, sculptor, and critic, based…

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BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: FLORENCE, IT

By BIG RED May 20th, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at a reception in Florence, 8 Japanese artists. These images were sent by James Hull, who is clearly enjoying his time in Italy. Curator Atsuko Inuzuka…

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SOUNDMARKS @ ART INTERACTIVE

By JACQUELINE HOUTON Fully embracing Duchamp’s declaration, “The spectator makes the picture,” Cambridge’s Art Interactive has for five years displayed cutting-edge art that invites audience participation. Its latest show, Soundmarks, removes the picture from the equation, avowing that sound can…

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ANDREW MOWBRAY @ SPACE OTHER

By MATTHEW NASH In his new body of work, titled “Bathyscape,” Andrew Mowbray attacks the notion of hegemonic masculinity, and employs the critical devices of post-feminism within a series of questions about his own role as a male. Through a…

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A CONVERSATION WITH REBECCA GORDON

By MATTHEW NASH After nineteen months and twelve shows, Second Gallery will be closing this summer. Rebecca Gordon, the 23-year-old director of Second Gallery, will be heading off to Chicago for graduate school, and will be turning over the space…

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AN INTERVIEW WITH ANDRES SERRANO

By BEN SLOAT Andres Serrano is an artist who came to national acclaim in the early 1990s with his controversial photographs appropriating religious imagery. At the time he was famously labeled by conservative Senator Jesse Helms as “not an artist,…