By MATTHEW GAMBER It was an interesting experiment: A rotating volunteer staff of one publisher, a few editors, and dozens of contributors (many whom never met in person) collaborate on a site devoted to topics related to local visual art.…
By MATTHEW GAMBER Michael Bühler-Rose lives and works in New York. He received a Fulbright Fellowship to India, received his BFA (2005) from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and MFA (2008) from University of Florida. His…
By MATTHEW GAMBER Since 2004, this pink website has been your independent, upstart source for news, reviews, and dialogue on contemporary work. We’ve published 125 issues, covered hundreds of exhibitions, and offered artists and patrons insight into the minds of…
By MATTHEW GAMBER Developed as a series of medical procedures to correct for abnormalities, cosmetic surgery has transformed into an industry to manage what nature has denied. Advanced techniques for plastic surgery were developed after World War I to restore…
A LETTER FROM THE EDITOR By Matthew Gamber Over the past few weeks, emotions have erupted in correlation to the economy. Several months ago, we introduced a comment section at the end of each piece. For the first few months, there…
A LETTER FROM THE EDITOR By Matthew Gamber Consider the top image on the right. Admiring its pastness, one might ruminate on the good old days of fishing, when the activity was more pure. However, rather than depicting a lucky catch,…
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR (AND ANOTHER NEW FEATURE) By Matthew Gamber For the past few issues, there has been a flurry of comments along the tails of articles. The discussions have ranged from considered to caustic to comical. If you have…
OH COME ALL YE FAITHFUL By Matthew Gamber Happy holidays to all of our loyal Big RED readers. This holiday season, as the economy takes a nose-dive, we at Big RED know how valuable your money is, and how much…
2008 ICA FOSTER PRIZE FINALISTS: A CONVERSATION WITH RANIA MATAR By Matthew Gamber On November 12th, the 2008 James and Audrey Foster Prize exhibition opened at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. Rania Matar is one of the four artists…
A SPECIAL COMMENT By Matthew Nash & Matthew Gamber Since our inception, Big RED & Shiny has always been created by artists as a way to discuss our local community and how it fits into a larger art world. Most…
By MATTHEW GAMBER Imagine: a table set, a set of chairs, all beautifully crafted – a desirable set of furniture. However, the only interruption, transgressing one’s desire for the object, are the large intersecting planks, symbolizing invisible light from a…
By MATTHEW NASH & MATTHEW GAMBER MN: What’s is going on here? MG: I don’t know, you tell me – I opened this thinking you had written something already. MN: That was a note to myself: what the hell is…
By MATTHEW NASH & MATTHEW GAMBER Ben Sloat’s new exhibition “Death Is Just A Rumor Spread By Life” at Laconia Gallery is an intense and thoughtful exploration of methods and history of photography. By dissecting the very nature of graphing…
Big RED and Shiny has learned that Libbie Shufro, the President and CEO of the Boston Center for the Arts, resigned this week. In mid-February, the BCA’s newest Director of Development quit, after less than six months of employment. After…
By MATTHEW GAMBER This month marks our fourth year, and we celebrate it (a week early) with our seventy-sixth issue. No, there won’t be the fanfare parades and community events or reenactments that decorated the American Bicentennial year. But, You…
By MATTEW GAMBER Snowing. Snow over the area in New England. At least that is what I anticipate; this is the anticipation. Based on this report, come my following sentences: In between digging out your spot, and salting the steps,…
By MATTHEW GAMBER T’was the first week of December, and all through the house, the heater was grinding, disturbing the mouse. Equally enchanting is the first New England snowfall of the season (as I write) that have to walk home…
By MATTHEW GAMBER Leaves are changing and tourists flock to New England for the leaves dying and the unique syrup packaging. Assuming nobody is here for the luxury of double parking, what officially is going on around these parts? From…
By MATTHEW GAMBER It’s Labor Day Weekend. Our Big RED writers and contributors dug deep (emotionally – the weather outside is alluring) and contributed to this, our 68th issue, the Summer’s Growing Old Issue. Galleries follow a close parallel schedule…
By MATTHEW GAMBER This summer, Big RED is taking some time to find an outlet for the AC, and we will be publishing once a month for the duration of the season. Before we begin unplugging the electrical nest of…