YOUNGER THAN JESUS @ THE NEW MUSEUM By Alex Young Much has been said and it would appear that even more has been written about the New Museum’s latest enterprise. The premier staging of this brand new triennial exhibition, carrying the…
PROFILE: WALLY GILBERT By Nabeela Ahmed The polymath is in danger of becoming a dying breed. In days of yore, it was not considered exceptional for the likes of Leonardo da Vinci to whip up masterpieces whilst also investigating profound…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: BOSTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS By Big Red Friday June 26, 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at “And The Fair Moon Rejoices: Contemporary Visionaries In The Wake Of Blake” with work by: Larry Bamburg,…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE By Steve Aishman I pull over into a gas station that has a fruit stand set-up in the parking lot. You know, one of those stands under a tent with a huge hand painted sign…
INTERVIEW WITH MARY OTIS STEVENS By Martina Tanga Local architect Mary Otis Stevens might be known to you, especially residents of Lincoln Massachusetts, for a very particular home built in the 1970s not far away from the famous dwelling of the…
THE HURT LOCKER AND THE CONTEMPORARY WAR FILM By James A. Nadeau War films serve many functions in our society. On a superficial level they are entertainment. They follow the conventions of their genre, which were well established in the early…
FOR MY BEST BELOVED SISTER MIA: JULIA MARGARET CAMERON @ THE PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART By Matthew Nash There is, perhaps, no better known photo album than the one Julia Margaret Cameron created for her sister Mia in the 1860s. Her…
THE DECORDOVA’S BIENNIAL: A VERMONTER’S PERSPECTIVE By Marc Awodey On the morning Big RED & Shiny published a blog post about the DeCordova’s 2010 Biennial selections, a Vermont gallerist shot to my publisher and me — I’m Art Critic for…
A LETTER FROM THE ROAD By Matthew Nash For the last few days, my wife and I have been traveling up the coast of Maine, hitting all the shopping towns along the way: Portland, Freeport, Boothbay Harbor. We are unabashedly tourists,…