Just as we get pummeled with snow, there’s no better time to update our preview of spring exhibitions. Many of these are shows that just opened and we hope to catch, as well as a few upcoming events on our…
I’m a Boston artist with an ever-growing body of under-documented work, more or less addicted to the process of artmaking. I’ve been lucky enough to get a few invitations to produce work elsewhere, including within artist residencies, and found these…
Declared “Photographer’s Row” in 1914 by Photo-Era Magazine, Boylston Street bustled with artists of all media in the decades just before and after the turn of the 20th century. With the Museum of Fine Arts and the Boston Public Library…
Around this time every year we are provided with some of these best new voices and, given the number of academic institutions in our area, we have quite a bit to choose from. It only seems fitting then that we…
Cullen Washington Jr.’s enigmatic large scale paintings, constructions and prints amply fill half of the cavernous space at the 808 Gallery (the other half is given over to a group show comprising mixed media works and performance). Washington Jr.’s paintings…
I first heard of Janine Antoni in the early ’90s when I saw a few photos in a magazine: a still from Loving Care, an installation shot of Gnaw, and a photo of Butterfly Kisses. At that point in my…
Last weekend, hundreds of artists from more than 40 countries convened in Boston for the biennial TransCultural Exchange Conference. Held at Boston University, this year’s TCE, Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts: Engaging Minds, boasted 50 panels with artists,…
With the end of Big Red & Shiny’s first academic year quickly approaching, we’ve been taking stock of the past 8 months to identify our successes and re-evaluate where we’d like to have a larger impact. One part of…
Sarah Sulistio Before becoming the Director and Chief Curator of the Boston University Art Gallery, you were a curator at MoMA PS1 and one of the founders of Cleopatra’s in Brooklyn. Arguably, your move to Boston University could be…
PHSNE President John Dockery, Abe Morell, PRC staff member and former Morell student Julie Kukharenko, and Erin Wederbrook Yuskaitis. Photo by Rene Ricciardi. Courtesy of the Photographic Resource Center Cuban-born, Boston-based Abelardo Morell has been exploring the very nature…
With the end of Big Red & Shiny’s first academic year back quickly approaching, we’ve been taking stock of the past 8 months to identify our successes and re-evaluate where we’d like to have a larger impact. One part of…
This coming October 10-13, TransCultural Exchange’s biennial conference returns to Boston. Since its inception in 1989, the non-profit, spear-headed by artist and pioneer, Mary Sherman, has organized many global exhibition and artist exchanges. The conference has reached its 4th…
Last December, I bought a book at JP Knit and Stitch called ‘Hooked on Crochet.’ I attribute this uncharacteristic move to pick up a craft to a former student of mine, Emma Lanctot, who made a gorgeously red, lacy wrap…
Irony has long associated with hollowness in contemporary culture. “Irony was the final polish of the shoe, the ultimate dab of the clothes-brush,” writes F. Scott Fitzgerald of Antony Patch, the doomed protagonist of his 1922 novel, The Beautiful and…
Toki Eishö (active late 18th century) Japan, Edo Period, 18th century Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk Honolulu Academy of Arts, Richard Lane Collection (2007.143) On November 29, 2012, Boston University’s Department of History of Art & Architecture…
By BIG RED Thursday, November 12th 2009 Candid photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at The Photographic Resource Center at Boston University for the opening of “The Leopold Godowsky Jr. Color Photography Awards,” which honor the co-inventor of Kodachrome…