There have been a number of changes to Big Red & Shiny for our re-launch, and I’m sure you’ve noticed that one of the biggest is that we are now partnering with Nectar Ads to fund our endeavor. We at…
Wow, it has been quite a week! As I’m sure you’ve noticed (because you are reading this) Big Red & Shiny is back. We have a new team, a new look and a renewed focus on art in Boston. I…
In Boston, apparently. At the Gardner Museum. In the tiny hallway that served as its former entrance, now hyperbolically renamed Fenway Gallery. It took me and three volunteers fifteen minutes to find the exhibit. Why would the work of an…
Tonight marks the first set of exhibition openings of the academic season and as we already reported, the ICA and SOWA are primed to make this a big one by dubbing it : First Friday: Back to School. The SOWA…
For centuries, hats have been used to define one’s social and cultural identity—and like other fashion accessories (ahem, shoes anyone?), they can make or break one’s outfit. Just look at images of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee or the Kentucky Derby…
After a nearly three-year run, NK Gallery, one of the SOWA District’s younger art galleries, will celebrate its final show and close its doors. Established in 2010, Kathy Halamka and Natacha Sochat opened the gallery as patrons of contemporary artists,…
Can you believe that it’s already #FirstFriday? Tonight, the SOWA District art galleries (450 Harrison Street) will be open with new and continuing shows from 5:30pm-8pm. The SOWA galleries are, as always, FREE and open to the public of all…
Just months after trying their hand at the over decade-long tradition, the ICA Boston has joined forces with the SOWA district galleries to throw what they’re calling a “citywide First Friday”. And as a subtle reminder that none of us…
Greetings everyone! So this is the new BR&S and we couldn’t be more excited to be back! Our relaunch has been a long journey of invisible labor that started around Feb of 2012, but it was completely worth it. With…
Wherein the reader learns of their part in this story. When the practical reality of running a Journal-Blog set in, the question of how to replenish our coffers came up. We turned to Kickstarter because its model offers a lovely…
By Clint Baclawski September 04, 2012 Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events/screenings/receptions/performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see this week: • Events Friday 7 September The fall’s first First Friday. Galleries…
In 2003, artists Matthew Nash and C. Sean Horton began piecing together the concept for web-based publication that would eventually become Big Red & Shiny. It would be a forum for criticism and discussion on contemporary art in Boston that…
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you’ve heard of the campaign to save the “old” Prentice Women’s Hospital in Chicago. The movement to save from demolition one of modernism’s boldest, most unusual and least understood concrete buildings gains momentum…
According to John Ochsendorf author of Guastavino Vaulting: The Art of Structural Tile, “Rafael Guastavino was one of the greatest American architects you’ve never heard of. (1)” An immigrant from Spain, Rafael Guastavino Sr. arrived to America in 1881 with…
In an effort to further expand access to their collections, the Museum of Fine Arts announced that it will launch a new Membership Program directed at New Hampshire students. The initiative, which begins this semester, provides free admission to all…