“THE WHITE CUBE” By Thomas Marquet #49: The worst thing about smoking is talking about smoking. Thomas Marquet is a cartoonist, sculptor, and critic, based in Brooklyn.
BIG RED GOES MOBILE By Big Red The iPhone, Blackberry, and all the other mobile devices that pervade our lives have brought a new mobility to information that never existed before. They are portable, user-friendly and a fun way to communicate…
ROUNDTABLE By Big Red Roundtable is a new feature where the staff at Big RED & Shiny respond to questions that are pertinent to the art world, simply on our minds, or have been nagging us. We share the questions with…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE By Steve Aishman The recent economic slow down has hit the entire global arts community extremely hard, but strangely, I have not seen many artists using the current state of affairs as the central dialog…
SAM MESSER, HANGING CORRESPONDENCE @ NIELSEN GALLERY By Nisha Maxwell Editor’s Note: It’s been pointed out that subject of the portraits discussed in this review are not Sam Messer, the creator of the works, but the author Jonathan Safran Foer. We…
THE DUMBING DOWN OF ART By Judy Kermis Blotnick I l-o-o-o-o-ve art. I love thinking about it, talking about it, looking at it, smelling it, love the cozy vibe of my studio, and that I don‘t have to wear mascara…
101 WAYS TO MAKE A “B” MOVIE – X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE By James A. Nadeau There is a scene in Robert Altman’s film The Player where a group of studio executives sit around a conference room discussing moviemaking. Larry Levy (played…
ANDY WARHOL: SCREEN TESTS & PHOTOGRAPHS @ COLBY MUSEUM By Elena Sarni Despite my Maine-based starting point, and rather heavy, highway driving foot, it was still a two-hour trip to Waterville, Maine, home to Colby College. But, it’s Warhol! “Andy Warhol…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: FP3 GALLERY By Big Red May 8th, 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at FP3 Gallery for the opening of Cristi Rinklin’s new exhibition “Boundless”. Cristi Rinklin: Boundless” is on view May 8th- August 15,…