By STEVE AISHMAN Art as Cultural Weapon Here are some things I was thinking about, but know nothing about. *All of this may be wrong or taken out of context, but it is what my little research on the subject…
By STEVE AISHMAN The Phantom Zone’s Boston Gallery Map The Phantom Zone’s Boston Gallery Map including a suggested 1 mile walking path. Click here to view the full map so you can plot your own walking path! *Note, this is…
By STEVE AISHMAN Dust – To remove dust (as in cleaning) Dust – To apply dust (as in fingerprinting) Bound – Moving (“I was bound for Chicago”) Bound – Unable to move (“I was bound to my desk”) Buckle -…
By STEVE AISHMAN Editor’s Note: This installment of Steve Aishman’s “Report From The Phantom Zone” may have been written in collaboration with his wife and long-time Big RED contributor, Heidi Marston Aishman. “It’s amazing how much you can get done…
By STEVE AISHMAN “The Six Mistakes of Man” The delusion that personal gain is made by crushing others. The tendency to worry about things that cannot be changed or corrected. Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish…
By STEVE AISHMAN Whatever happened to mindless creation? In a world that rationalizes war, where is the defiant irrationality? Where is the ethical anarchy? The Socratic cynicism? I went to Scope Hamptons two weeks ago to see what the art…
By STEVE AISHMAN I watched a new neighbor move-in over the past few days. Most of her big boxes included multiple types of exercise equipment (abs, arms, cardio), HD TV’s for the living room, bedroom and kitchen (she lives in…
By STEVE AISHMAN “You see, visiting art exhibitions is a terrible act of violence that we perpetrate on ourselves.” – Trotsky “He has helped to preserve, protect, and present the cultural and artistic heritage of our world.” – President George…
By STEVE AISHMAN SUBJECT: FAQ (Fairly Asinine Questions) Asinine:[‘æ-sê-nIn] marked by inexcusable failure to exercise intelligence or sound judgment of, relating to, or resembling an ass My third grade teacher once told me there is no such thing as a…
By STEVE AISHMAN So, I’m at SunTek Chung’s opening @ Samson Projects and I meet this guy. “Where are you from?” I ask him. “Well, I was born in California, but I don’t remember it. I went to high school…
By AISHMAN, MANNING, URBATI & PAUL MIAMI HEAT by JAMES MANNING SIT BACK AND RELAX: AN ABBREVIATED TOUR OF FILM AND VIDEO AT MIAMI BASEL by KATHARINE URBATI THE ART BASEL EXPERIENCE by STEVE AISHMAN THE BASEL BALL by…
By STEVE AISHMAN Douglas Weathersby’s current exhibitions at three different sites can each be viewed as individual exhibitions, but they can also be viewed as one large, multi-state exhibition. More correctly, all of Weathersby’s work for the past few years…
By STEVE AISHMAN View Steve Aishman’s video. Quicktime, 2mb A few months back, I was standing at the West entrance to the MFA Boston on a Wednesday at 3:50 waiting to get into the MFA for free at 4:00…
By STEVE AISHMAN Anyone who has a great older brother or sister knows that the defining quality of a great sibling is not if she defended me on the playground (which my older sister did) or if she loaned me…
By STEVE AISHMAN Do you know anyone who remembers when they were a child and would paint or draw all the time but then also remembers the first time they drew on a wall and someone came and yelled at…
By STEVE AISHMAN “I found the Palace of Green Porcelin, when we approached it about noon, deserted and falling into ruin. Only ragged vestiages of glass remained in its windows, and great sheets of the green facing had fallen away…
By STEVE AISHMAN I am writing this letter to Big Red because I realized the other day that I am stalking Bill Arning, the curator of the MIT List Visual Arts Center. I love the work he curates at various…
By STEVE AISHMAN Print this article I remember walking by the teacher’s lounge when I was nine years old and I saw some teachers preparing a birthday cake. The teacher who was apparently in charge of the candles, told me…
By STEVE AISHMAN Print this article I once met a man who collected Beanie Babies. He had thousands of them; ranging from inexpensive Scorch to ultra-collectablePeanut. Like any good collector, he insisted on showing virtually every one of them to…