The Financial District probably isn’t your primary gallery-hopping destination, but next time you’re near South Station, be sure to check out the Open Door Gallery. Located in a first floor space at 89 South Street (corner of Essex), it’s the…
I’ve been very impressed by the visuals contained in hip hop videos coming out of Los Angeles. It’s not just one person, or one label– it seems to be all the artists from LA have overpoweringly clearheaded visual adaptations for…
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Matching Mole, Signed Curtain, Matching Mole, 3:06, 1972 The Living on One Side, The Departed on the Other, Acrylic on Canvas, 44″x116″ (Diptych), 2012 Study at MFA with Onlookers, Acrylic on Canvas, 20″x16″, 2011
Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events/screenings/exhibitions/performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see this week: • Events Tuesday 30 October The Rose Art Museum, Brandis University, Waltham, MA Lecture:Dor Guez 6pm / Free…
The weekend has been full of panel talks beginning Friday with Montserrat College of Art’s symposium on art and activism, which was followed Saturday by our very own BIG RED FORUM at MIT’s List Center, and continued on Sunday at…
Panel discussion summary and bios as PDF What a night. As our former editor-in-chief Matthew Gamber put it: Big Red Forum has now become “Big Red Town Hall.” The half hour that was devoted to audience response after the…
Ancient Greeks burned wax onto the hulls of ships to protect them from the ravages of salt water. Soon thereafter, they and their Roman counterparts began mixing pigments into wax to create paint for production of stage backdrops and funerary…
If you’ve seen footage of the audience at The Ed Sullivan Show when the Beatles appeared, screaming the joy that possessed them body and soul, you’ll have a fair grasp of my state of mind at seeing poet Jane Hirshfield…
This week you have two excuses to go see MIT’s “In the Holocene.” I’m not sure you need an excuse with such a tight show, but you have two nonetheless. Thursday, at 6:30 pm, 16mm prints of Daria Martin’s Soft…
The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC is set to auction artifacts from the Benjamin Warder House designed by 19th century Boston architect Henry Hobson Richardson. Rumors of the possible auction were circulating throughout various preservation and architectural history…
Without realizing it, I think my first idea to paint stripes inside a box were a way to break out of my habit of painting still lifes with black backgrounds. Introducing white stripes to a black void, as ridiculous as…
Wright Next Door: New Hampshire Part One Behind a woodland canopy of yew and birch and hemlock on an unassuming street in the hillside city of Manchester, New Hampshire lays a rare and hidden treasure that awaits your eminent arrival;…
Welcome to the newest episode of Studio Sessions, the Big Red & Shiny podcast that explores the concepts and processes behind artists’ work. Our guest this episode is Eszter Sapi. Eszter Sapi is a 2012 MFA graduate from the School…
Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events/screenings/exhibitions/performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see this week: • Events Saturday 27 October <- Support BR&S! Bartos Theater, 20 Ames St, MIT Big Red Forum: Community…
Carrying its mission into the public forum, Big Red & Shiny will host a discussion on art & community moderated by Katherine French, Director of the Danforth Museum. Community art specifically refers to art that takes place within a community…
Oscar-nominated filmmaker Sam Green and indie rock legends Yo La Tengo brought their “live documentary” on the life and work of Buckminster Fuller to Boston for two performances at the ICA on Saturday, October 20. Similar to Green’s earlier Utopia…
Goethe’s Theory of Colours is the book that I’m toting around in the Profondo Yellow video. I got a little obsessed with it a few years ago. It’s laid out by sections, and within each section are very brief and…
In 1986, the Westin Stamford Hotel in Singapore became the newly crowned “world’s tallest hotel.” Sensing an opportunity to attract Western investors into their market and a chance to appear competitive within the growing world economy, North Korea began construction…
Last Friday, along with 500 others, I settled in for 10 hours of non-stop presentations and dialogue at Creative Time’s annual summit. It was my first time attending and was worth every minute of the bumpy Boltbus roundtrip. Last year,…