From the outside, the Victory Theatre looks pretty much like any of the other boarded up buildings in Holyoke. As one of America’s first planned cities and the former paper capital of the world, Holyoke has no shortage of buildings…
On Tuesday October 16, 2012 seven paintings from the Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam, Netherlands were stolen in the early hours of the morning. The stolen paintings are by Picasso, Monet, Matisse and Lucian Freud among others. The works which were…
Last fall Lucas Spivey slammed on his brakes along an empty stretch of Route 16 in New Hampshire, his attention grabbed by a modern makeshift ‘wanted’ poster. “$1,000 REWARD for the Arrest & Conviction AND Return of The 20 foot…
There is no arguing that Ori Gersht: History Repeating, currently on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is anything short of visually arresting. Large and lush color photographs sit between exquisitely rendered video tableaux. Since the work exists…
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 16 October Tower Auditorium, 621 Huntington Avenue, MassArt Photography Lecture: Wendy Ewald 2pm / Free…
By Matthew Nash October 15, 2012 This is just a quick housekeeping note to announce that Big Red & Shiny has upgraded our comment system to LiveFyre. We hope this will offer you a better and more conversational experience…
“The Inspection House,” the October show at the Atlantic Works gallery in East Boston, brings together recent work in painting, video, and installation by two local artists, Martha McCollough and Matthew Keller. The theme is the Panopticon, Bentham’s model prison…
Sitting on my desk is a small enamelware cup that I purchased in the gift shop at the new Schindler Factory branch of the Museum of the History of Krakow in Poland. The cup is blue, with a black rim…
The idea that there is a privileged relationship between the relatively young medium of installation art and the ancient practice of architecture is far from revolutionary. For decades artists and architects have explored shared interests through the medium of installation;…
Charcoal is made by burning, so an artist might use slivers of charred ruins to draw with. In the midst of all the color, it is the prominence of this dark medium from out of the flames that resonates most…
In historicizing the minimalist canvas, critics have pointed to some form of the merger between the subject of a painting and the object used to support it—for a few this “maddening” notion was the “subjectile,” that physical part of art…
Everything will be ok, just close your eyes little thing go to sleep little fuck feel my hand on your warm forehead It’s cold isn’t it? Ice cold. Dream of something real sweet for mommy Mommy likes sweet things Dream of merry-go-rounds…
Just as it’s expected that rock bands rail against the machinations of the music industry, and indie filmmakers lament the hollowness of Hollywood, it’s a condition of those working in or with art that the ‘art world’ be berated as…
For the past two years, I have taught a course on Reviled Architecture at Boston University. The class explored a variety of buildings that frequently incite people’s ire, and my students found no lack of published sources on the subject.…
George Fifield is a media arts curator, writer, teacher and artist. He is the founder and director of Boston Cyberarts Inc., a nonprofit arts organization, which from 1999 through 2011 produced the Boston Cyberarts Festival. Big Red & Shiny…
Here are some of my recent source images. Sometimes it’s enough to scroll through them, but lately I like being able to see them laid out in a little grid. Previously I hadn’t made the connection between eyeball and hole…
By The Editors October 14, 2012 The museum has a ton of roles to play. First, is the protective role, collecting, preserving, and identifying what is important to our culture, our aesthetics, or any other divisions you can…
It’s best to start this piece by confessing that I’ve yet to watch a single episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Star Trek, Smallville, Veronica Mars or one of the Harry Potter franchise movies. The Big Bad, according to Wikipedia…
L.A. based Argentinian artist Analia Saban’s show at Tanya Bonakdar is teeming with associations for me. Her work is formally advanced and ripe with historical connotations, but the thing that draws me in most is her self-assured gestures. Her work…
By Sarah Sulistio October 12, 2012 Recognized by ArtReview as the art world’s “Most Powerful Figure” in 2011, Ai Weiwei is no stranger to the art world. Best-known for his collaboration with Herzog & de Meuron on the design…