The Institute of Contemporary Art has announced the finalists for The Foster Prize 2013 James and Audrey Foster Prize. The four finalists are Sarah Bapst, Katarina Burin, Mark Cooper and Luther Price. The Foster Prize is the ICA’s biennial for…
dOCUMENTA 13 (or d13) is one of the exhibitions I wish I had been able to travel to this year. Founded by Arnold Bode in 1955, the exhibition originally was part of a flower show that happened every year in…
First Friday. It’s the one thing that if you don’t know a ton about local art, you have probably taken part in. First Friday is complicated, as it is a host of groups and concerns working on the same night,…
By The Editors October 30, 2012 We would like to take a brief moment to thank this month’s sponsors. These are the organizations and companies that keep us publishing, so be sure to check them out! Featured Advertisers…
By The Editors October 14, 2012 The museum has a ton of roles to play. First, is the protective role, collecting, preserving, and identifying what is important to our culture, our aesthetics, or any other divisions you can…
By The Editors October 12, 2012 Big Red & Shiny would like to congratulate Suara Welitoff on the news that she has been awarded this year’s Rappaport Prize by the deCordova! The Rappaport Prize is awarded annually to…
By The Editors October 12, 2012 Luther Price is hot shit these days… cue list of credits. He’s also an artist with remarkable discipline, dedication and modesty who lives and works in a small beach-front cottage in Revere. So his…
By The Editors October 11, 2012 We’ve all seen Boston’s city hall, and we’ve all got an opinion about it. The haters believe that it’s a symbol of Boston city government’s insanity, and the lovers think that it’s a…
By The Editors October 09, 2012 Chances are you or a loved one went to an art school for undergrad. If you did, it’s also probable that you went through a foundations course your first year. This “painters…
By The Editors October 09, 2012 Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery Events/Screenings/Exhibitions/Performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see this week: • Events Tuesday 9 October Montserrat College of Art, Montserrat, MA Hardie…
By The Editors October 04, 2012 Richard Phillips became the second artist in recent history to create a portrait of a presidential candidate. The Marblehead, Mass.-born, New York City-based artist today debuted his painting “Vote Mitt Romney” at the…
By The Editors October 03, 2012 Dear readers and supporters & to those of you who were present on Saturday night & to the people and venues that made it happen: our heartfelt thanks. The Big Red &…
One of the more enigmatic artists from Lucy Lippard’s Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 has to be Lee Lozano. She dropped out of the art world not long after Lippard’s book was published,…
By The Editors October 02, 2012 Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery Events/Screenings/Exhibitions/Performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see this week: • Events Tuesday 2 October The Beehive, Boston Sting! XIII: Indoor,…
THE INTERNET — The Museum of Modern Art’s Klaus Biesenbach is worried about the word “curate.” The linguistic lament was captured in Wall Street Journal reporter Kelly Crow’s interview with the PS1 Director and MoMA Curator in her publication’s Soapbox…
The University of Hartford may axe up to 40 arts and humanities programs to benefit 17 other departments, according to reports. The university, which was founded in 1957 through the merging of Hartford Art School, The Hartt School, and Hillyer College,…
By The Editors October 02, 2012 Every year since 1981, the Chicago-based John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has awarded fellowships to individual pioneers within the fields of the arts and sciences. Nicknamed the MacArthur “Genius Grants,” recipients…
By The Editors October 01, 2012 About 24 people gathered in the town of Arlington, Vt. last weekend to recollect the moments they shared with painter and illustrator Norman Rockwell. The artist, famous for capturing Americana, lived in…
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Not being a comic guy, I had no idea that I’ve been walking past an exhibition of New England comic artists at the Atrium Gallery (1815 Mass ave Cambridge) for the last week. The third annual Mass Independent Comic Expo…