“THE WHITE CUBE” By Thomas Marquet #49: The worst thing about smoking is talking about smoking. Thomas Marquet is a cartoonist, sculptor, and critic, based in Brooklyn.
BIG RED GOES MOBILE By Big Red The iPhone, Blackberry, and all the other mobile devices that pervade our lives have brought a new mobility to information that never existed before. They are portable, user-friendly and a fun way to communicate…
ROUNDTABLE By Big Red Roundtable is a new feature where the staff at Big RED & Shiny respond to questions that are pertinent to the art world, simply on our minds, or have been nagging us. We share the questions with…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE By Steve Aishman The recent economic slow down has hit the entire global arts community extremely hard, but strangely, I have not seen many artists using the current state of affairs as the central dialog…
SAM MESSER, HANGING CORRESPONDENCE @ NIELSEN GALLERY By Nisha Maxwell Editor’s Note: It’s been pointed out that subject of the portraits discussed in this review are not Sam Messer, the creator of the works, but the author Jonathan Safran Foer. We…
THE DUMBING DOWN OF ART By Judy Kermis Blotnick I l-o-o-o-o-ve art. I love thinking about it, talking about it, looking at it, smelling it, love the cozy vibe of my studio, and that I don‘t have to wear mascara…
101 WAYS TO MAKE A “B” MOVIE – X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE By James A. Nadeau There is a scene in Robert Altman’s film The Player where a group of studio executives sit around a conference room discussing moviemaking. Larry Levy (played…
ANDY WARHOL: SCREEN TESTS & PHOTOGRAPHS @ COLBY MUSEUM By Elena Sarni Despite my Maine-based starting point, and rather heavy, highway driving foot, it was still a two-hour trip to Waterville, Maine, home to Colby College. But, it’s Warhol! “Andy Warhol…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: FP3 GALLERY By Big Red May 8th, 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at FP3 Gallery for the opening of Cristi Rinklin’s new exhibition “Boundless”. Cristi Rinklin: Boundless” is on view May 8th- August 15,…
By Big Red Roundtable is a new feature where the staff at Big RED & Shiny respond to questions that are pertinent to the art world, simply on our minds, or have been nagging us. We share the questions with each…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: THE DISTILLERY STUDIOS,SOUTH BOSTON By Big Red Sunday May 10th, 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the Distillery Studios in South Boston for the Plaform2 workshop: ICONography of Climate Change. This event is part…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: BOSTON CYBERARTS GALA EVENT By Big Red Friday May 8th 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the CyberArts Gala at the IBM Research Center in Cambridge. Boston CyberArts
ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE @ THE CUTLER MAJESTIC THEATRE By Chelsey Philpot On Tuesday, April 28th the Celebrity Series of Boston once again brought the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater troupe up from their New York City base. The seats at…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: AXIOM GALLERY By Big Red Saturday May 9th, 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Axiom for a performance by Ensemble Robot. This event is part of the Boston Cyberarts Festival. Axiom Gallery Ensemble Robot
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE By Steve Aishman Why I love abstract art and think it is getting better. “The eye is the natural master of pattern recognition. The eye demands satisfaction by invoking in us strong feelings of…
“THE WHITE CUBE” By Thomas Marquet #48: On the theoretical utility of reproduction for the justification of a name. Thomas Marquet is a cartoonist, sculptor, and critic, based in Brooklyn, New York, which is an admittedly unoriginal place to be pursuing…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: THE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE BOSTON By Big Red Wednesday May 29th, 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Museum of Science, Boston for the Radio Lab Listening Party and the opening of “Human^n – digital…
A FEW APPARITIONS OF NATIONHOOD @ THE ALDRICH MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART By Alex Young With its current suite of exhibitions by artists: Dave Cole, Alejandro Diaz, Robert Lazzarini, Frank Poor, Harry Shearer, and David Taylor, the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: EMERSON COLLEGE,HURET GALLERY By Big Red Friday May 1st, 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at opening of Next Generation II: an exhibit of Emerson New Media Students. This exhibition is part of the…
ACTING OUT: SOCIAL EXPERIMENTS IN VIDEO @ THE ICA By James Nadeau There is a trend in contemporary video art to include so-called “real people” or non-actors. I like to think about this shift in two ways. First of all it…