The weekend has been full of panel talks beginning Friday with Montserrat College of Art’s symposium on art and activism, which was followed Saturday by our very own BIG RED FORUM at MIT’s List Center, and continued on Sunday at…
Last Friday, along with 500 others, I settled in for 10 hours of non-stop presentations and dialogue at Creative Time’s annual summit. It was my first time attending and was worth every minute of the bumpy Boltbus roundtrip. Last year,…
There is no arguing that Ori Gersht: History Repeating, currently on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is anything short of visually arresting. Large and lush color photographs sit between exquisitely rendered video tableaux. Since the work exists…
By Stephanie Cardon October 10, 2012 For our first issue of the revamped Big Red & Shiny, Ben Street, curator, art writer, lecturer and co-creator of the Sluice Art Fair, London, has been ruminating on the semantically slippery state,…
By Stephanie Cardon October 06, 2012 One of the attractions of living in a university town is the open-door policy many schools have towards evening lectures: the savvy can gate-crash their way to a free education on any…
Our Daily Red is pleased to launch an artist-in-residence series titled Inside Out. Every month, a new guest artist will have access to the platform to publish images and jot down thoughts about inspiration, obsession, creative failures and insights. Unlike…
The Persian, Arabic and Urdu word raqs describes the dervish’s trance attained while whirling: it stands for reflection in motion or, as Delhi-based Raqs Media Collective call it, ‘kinetic contemplation.’ Central to their collaborative practice as artists, researchers, curators, is…
Mariana Cánepa Luna and Max Andrews are the team of two behind Latitudes, a Barcelona-based globally-active ‘Curatorial Office’. Why talk about them here and now? Latitudes’ current #OpenCurating project consists of a series of interviews with publishers, developers, artists and…
The weekend following Go Brooklyn Art’s borough-wide Open Studios event, artists in Boston’s South End studios unbolt their doors for the public. Saturday 15 & Sunday 16 September, from 11am to 6pm, the art-curious are welcome to stroll up and…
In Boston, apparently. At the Gardner Museum. In the tiny hallway that served as its former entrance, now hyperbolically renamed Fenway Gallery. It took me and three volunteers fifteen minutes to find the exhibit. Why would the work of an…
Titled not without a little irony, Bricks and Mortar, a pop-up show lasting just over one week, was anchored by the least physical work in the exhibition: a sound installation. Taking on the characteristics of the space that tries to…
If you’ve been away a lot this summer and have yet to see Os Gemeos’ public artwork in Dewey Square, head down there during these last halcyon days of summer. While you’re enjoying a grassy pause between the skyscrapers, have…
Press PLAY before reading: “When you’re done crying about how much everything sucks, you can find the rest of us at Picó Picante.” On a recent sunny Saturday afternoon, Maggie Cavallo’s public entreaty to get over and on with it…