What in the hell is going on in this city? As if the non-profit pulse in Boston wasn’t already barely beating, now we’ve been dealt another blow with the city’s closing of the Oni Gallery in Chinatown. How many more…
By THE EDITOR Several artists with ties to Boston have been included in the 2004 Whitney Biennial, which has been deemed as the “Intergenerational Biennial.” Among the group are Taylor Davis, Laylah Ali and Sam Durant. Big Red congratulates these…
Alas, we have a Vermeer in town. With only 35 paintings in existence and most of them in town. With only 35 paintings in existence and most of them concentrated in a few collections around the world, Boston should be…
“The false color in the original source material reveals the constructed notion of romance through marketing. My horizons are a kind of global travel through the absurdity of the marketing of love.” –Penelope Umbrico, 2003 The first thing one encounters…
Many viewers will leave the cinema confused and dissatisfied after seeing “The Fog of War.” Many will have come to see a documentary about Robert McNamara – who they know as one of the most horrible men of one of…
This summer while browsing through a copy of Art Journal magazine, I came across the article “Practice in Critical Times,” a dialogue involving the Chicago-based artist group Temporary Services, museum staff at the David and Alfred Smart Museum at the…
I’ve discovered free time – since the Department of Inspectional Services of the City of Boston shut down the Berwick last July because of building code violations – I’m free from the duties of running an arts venue. I’m free…