Tonight Platform2 hosted an event dubbed the Failure Support Group for a crowded hall of artists and friends. The event featured a series of artists presenting various failures from their lives. I am proud to admit that I presented a…
By BIG RED February 10, 2008 Candid snaps from Curators Elizabeth Duffy and Brian Miller’s talk on their show, Office Space, at the New Art Center in Newton. The New Art Center “Office Space” was on view January 14 – February…
By BIG RED Thursday, February 7th, 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at The Photographic Resource Center for the opening of the 2008 PRC Student Exhibition. Photographic Resource Center “2008 PRC Student Annual” is on view February…
By BIG RED Friday, February 22nd, 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Mobius for a performance by Jessica Rylan. Here is a short video of the performance:
By STEVE AISHMAN “The modernist age, of “one way, one truth, one city,” is dead and gone. The postmodernist age of “anything goes” is on the way out. Reason can take us a long way, but it has limits. Let…
By MONICA MCFAWN When I was a child, I remember being read “In the Troll Wood,” a strangely compelling picture book. Its characters were trolls, fairies and princesses–not exactly the most original subjects for a children’s book, yet there was…
By THOMAS MARQUET #29: This is a genuine grievance of mine with the Artforum. It’s like they’re hostile to the act of reading and want to make it as awkward as possible. -Tom Thomas Marquet is a cartoonist, sculptor, and…
By JASON DEAN In 2006, brothers Lucas and Jason Ajemian transcribed the Black Sabbath song ‘Into The Void’ backwards and arranged it for a classical orchestra. The piece, entitled ‘From Beyond,’ was scheduled to be performed 4 times in association…
By JAMES NADEAU “The spectacle cannot be understood either as a deliberate distortion of the visual world or as a product of the technology of the mass dissemination of images.” – Guy Debord It is tempting when entering the new…
By MATTHEW NASH In October of 2006, Big RED & Shiny was included in the PRC|POV exhibition at the Photographic Resource Center. This show featured 30 artists, groups or companies that PRC members considered important for the future of photography…
By JESS T. DUGAN Big Red & Shiny writer Jess T Dugan sits down with Daron Manoogian, Director of Communications at the Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM), home to the Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Sackler Museums. Jess and Daron to discuss…
A few years ago, I was privileged to have my work included on Aspect: The Chronicle of New Media Art, alongside the work of Lee Walton. I knew a little of Lee’s work through his “Lee Walton vs. Shaquille O’Neill”…
Yesterday George Fifield sent along a link to the Arts Action Fund’s ArtVote website, which lists the arts positions of the various presidential candidates. As the field has narrowed, there are really only three or four that are relevant, but…
Belgian artist David Claerbout’s first museum survey exhibitition in the US will open this Friday at MIT’s List Visual Arts Center. In an article I wrote about his work in 2004, I summarized: “In his work, David Claerbout moves between…
By JESS T. DUGAN Jess T. Dugan: How did you begin making photographs? Susan Wides: My first photo project was a booklet of aerial photographs of the World’s Fair in 1965 shot from the Monorail while traveling above the spectacle!…
By JENNIFER SCHMIDT Jesse LeDoux has been working over seven years as an art director and designer for Seattle-based Sub Pop Records and founding member of Patent Pending Design, LeDoux created iconic album and poster artwork for such artists such…
By MATTHEW NASH The invention of photography in the early nineteenth century is generally held to be the innovation that freed painting from its history as a representational medium and opened the door for a century of Modernist exploration. The…
By ROANNA FORMAN In her first show as curator, painter and installation artist Pamela Sheridan juxtaposes the works of three artists – painter Jeff Suarez, photographer Carol Gaudreau and her own – in a way that pretty much makes the…
By JON PETRO The Newbury Street art scene is pedestrian by location and concept. By which I mean, it’s neither dead or alive; it simply exists because of what it once was. It rarely shows any type of art that…
By SCOTT ALBERG Chip Hooper’s ten silver prints, from the series New Zealand’s South Pacific and Tasman Sea, exhibited at the Robert Klein Gallery, are on first glance evocative of the hackneyed sublime one has come to expect from traditional…