FAITH AND THE SALE OF ART By Matthew Nash One of the many side-effects of a bursting economic bubble is the revealing of the nature of the shady deals and shaky business models that seem so infallible when money is easy.…
A CONVERSATION WITH CRISTI RINKLIN By Matthew Nash Cristi Rinklin makes epic paintings of richly layered spaces. Her new exhibition at FP3 Gallery, “Boundless,” features a series of new paintings and smaller drawings that explore space, color and form in complex…
GEORGIE FRIEDMAN @ BOSTON COLLEGE By Matthew Nash Georgie Friedman’s video installations require patience. They are not for those with a short attention span, and they only reward the viewer willing to sit and wait. Sometimes the rewards are small, tiny…
PARSE @ AXIOM By Matthew Nash PARSE: Visualizing Data That Makes Us Human is an exhibition that makes visible things that we know intuitively, yet rarely consider as visual data, much less art. Each piece takes on an unseen part of…
For many artists and organizations, LEF Foundation’s change in funding priorities has reduced and limited opportunities for funding in New England. The good news is that Louisa McCall, formerly of LEF, and Marie Cieri, are co-directing a new project called…
A CONVERSATION WITH BILL ARNING By Matthew Nash As the curator of MIT’s List Visual Art Center, Bill Arning has brought a long list of impressive and challenging shows to the Boston area. Recently, it was announced that Arning will be…
HOW THE HELL DID WE GET HERE? LOOKING BACK ON 5 YEARS OF BIG RED & SHINY By Matthew Nash On February 15th, 2009, Big RED & Shiny celebrates our fifth year online and our hundredth issue. It is impossible to…
WHAT ARE LEE WALTON’S FRIENDS DOING ON F’BOOK? By Matthew Nash For the past several decades, artists have been embracing new forms of digital media in the creation of their work, and challenging the notion of creative experience in diverse ways.…
ON THE INTANGIBLE: SHEILA GALLAGHER & DARREN FOOTE By Matthew Nash Darren Foote is a very calm guy. He speaks in measured tones and never gets too excited. Sheila Gallagher is an energetic flurry of ideas and excitement. The pairing of…
LIZ PRINCE WON’T DRAW YOUR @#$&! By Matthew Nash Liz Prince creates comics that are personal, snarky and endearing. Her recent book, Delayed Replays is now out on Top Shelf, and we recently sat down to talk about comics, wetting the…
BACKLASH TO BRANDEIS CLOSING THE ROSE By Matthew Nash & Micah J. Malone On Monday, January 26th, The Boston Globe’s Geoff Edgers broke the story that Brandeis University was planning to close down the Rose Art Museum and sell off the…
PLATFORM2: MANIFESTO!SLAM By Matthew Nash The banner said “Get on the bus” so we did, sixteen participants in the MANIFESTO!SLAM created by the social activist collaborative Platform2. It was a cold evening but everyone was jubilant, that morning having witnessed the…
This morning The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston announced that Bill Arning has been named as their new director. Arning has been the curator at the List Visual Art Center at MIT, and while we are very happy that Arning will…
OBAMA AND THE ARTS By Matthew Nash During the heat of the election, and now in the interregnum period before the inauguration of President Obama, there has been a lot of talk about the arts and what policies the new president…
ON LEMONADE & STORAGE LOFTS: A CONVERSATION WITH DOUGLAS WEATHERSBY By Matthew Nash Douglas Weathersby creates projects that merge labor with art in complex ways, and present the results under the guise of his company, Environmental Services. Weathersby was the winner…
LOOKING BACK ON 2008 By Matthew Nash I have little doubt that, when we look back on the year 2008, it will be remembered for one thing above all others: change. Some of this change was for the better, some for…
WHERE CAN I FIND SOME NEW ART? By Matthew Nash I’m staring at a blank screen, trying to figure out what to write. I want to write that Boston’s alternative scene is non-existant and that young artists have no place to…
2008 ICA FOSTER PRIZE FINALISTS: A CONVERSATION WITH CATHERINE D’IGNAZIO By Matthew Nash On November 12th, the 2008 James and Audrey Foster Prize exhibition opened at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.Catherine D’Ignazio, co-creator of The Institute for Infinitely Small Things…
