Born out of a conversation in 2002 between an SMFA graduate student (Sean Horton) and instructor (Matthew Nash) about the viability of bringing arts coverage in Boston to the web, Big Red & Shiny has since been a labor of…
THE DISAPPEARING CRITIC By Daniel Grant We are living in the great age of opinion-writing, of critiques and commentaries, so why are so many of the art critics disappearing from major metropolitan newspapers? (Hint: It’s not just fine arts but book…
PAWN BROKERS FOR THE ART WORLD Daniel Grant In the course of a week, Yossi Dina talks to a lot of art dealers and art collectors, movie moguls and real estate investors, all of whom want him to give them…
By DANIEL GRANT Museums were much in the news in 2007, not necessarily for the happiest of reasons. Would-be donors of valuable artworks complained that limitations on what are called “fractional” gifts (time-sequenced donations with no defined end date and…