Aliza Shvarts went to Yale for her undergrad. This is a very dispassionate reading of Shvarts’ career at Yale which concluded with a proposal for her final art project that pushed numerous buttons. To say that the project was never…
Earlier this fall, we published an article about the Barcelona-based curatorial duo Latitudes on Our Daily Red blog. The post came in the wake of Latitudes’ interview with Robin Dowden, Nate Solas and Paul Schmelzer from the Walker Art Center…
In this month’s journal, we have two photographers, an exhibition of abstract photography, and an artist from Memphis who uses video. It’s funny how though we don’t plan out each journal to have specific themes that somehow they appear to…
Photography is generally understood to be an excellent means of instantly capturing things as they are. In theory, the mechanism of the lens, shutter, and film (or digital sensor) is something that just captures reality. Of course, many of the…
Monday, legendary composer Elliot Carter passed away after 103 years on this planet. I think that it’s safe to say that Carter lived through most of the recent musical movements and added something to almost all of them. The quick…
On October 22, 1962 in his home in southern France, an aging 81-year old Pablo Picasso watched then U.S. President John F. Kennedy announce the discovery of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba capable of reaching American soil. He, like most…
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 6 November Go & Vote!!! Tuesday 6 November Ray and Maria Stata Center, MIT, Cambridge,…
Hello, and welcome to the next installment of Studio Sessions with Boston-area artist Garett Yahn. Garett Yahn is a 2011 MFA graduate from the School of the Museum of Fine Art in Boston, and earned a combined undergraduate degree in…
From left to right: Susan Metrican, Juan Amaya, 2012. Dear everyone, Please meet Juan Amaya, graphic designer turned visual artist. His images seem at first a familiar mash-up of YouTube vernacular and Photoshop gaggery, but a subject begins to emerge…
Unless you’ve been living under a rock these past 9 months, you know what’s going down tomorrow. This is Big Red & Shiny’s Get Out the Vote post! First of all, here are two links to where to vote in…
Why does Boston produce such an immense number of young artists and yet retain so few of them? This is the question that begins the call for work for yBos 1 at UMB’s Harbor Gallery, which calls itself “The first…
It’s a refrain we all hear time and again: Boston’s strength lies in its schools. Whether you believe it or not, it cannot be denied that there is some fantastic contemporary art coming out of several dynamic & respected MFA…
The Boston Public Library has been organizing some very exciting events for years, but none more exciting than Building Boston—a citywide celebration of Boston’s public spaces. According to the BPL Building Boston website, this celebration “explores the stories behind the…
This time last week, I sat in a pew at Montserrat’s second annual academic symposium, Agents of Change: Art as Activism. It’s difficult to imagine a more New England venue for staging a day-long event on engaged art than a…
This month’s #FirstFriday is filled with food and drinks starting with the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. The theme for the ICA’s #FirstFriday is Mixology. The evening will be dedicated to the art of the craft cocktail with some of the…
Today marks our one month since our Kickstarter was successfully funded! Here is a behind the scenes time lapse video of the Big Red & Shiny’s relaunch party, the Big Red Shindig. Shot and edited by James Manning: www.artvigor.org Mills…
“Contemporary approaches to photography are much different than what was happening in Harold’s world. Harold wasn’t working in series like many contemporary artists do now. He was photographing what captured his attention.” With over five decades of dedication and thousands…
Fifty random points all connected by straight lines: those were the original instructions for Sol Lewitt’s Wall Drawing #118 installed at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in 1971. It has been re-created and it is the centerpiece…
