By BIG RED January 19, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at The New England School of Art and Design at Suffolk University for the opening of “Martin Mugar: Pulled Dots” and “James Kalambokis: Final Edit” Photos…
By BIG RED January 7, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Artist Foundation Gallery for Mary Omalley “Curious Intimacies”, “This is Not My Mother’s Photo Album: New Photography Works” by Adrianne & Jamie Fernadez, and “Abstracted-…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR According to the Associated Press, the thief of a 16th century, gold-plated sculpture titled “Saliera” has turned himself in to police in Austria. The sculpture was recovered near the town of Zwettl, north of Vienna,…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Back in issue #25 we said goodbye to Big RED’s editor-in-chief Matthew Gamber as he left Boston for Savannah and a cushy teaching job. His 18 issues with Big RED were full of growth and…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR College entrepreneur, Alex Tew, of Wiltshire, England, has auctioned off the final 1000 pixels on his web-based billboard, the Million Dollar Homepage. The eBay auction ended last week with a high bid of $38,100 by…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR A photographic musing on the nature of driving in Boston, and why it is (perhaps) the hardest city in the world to drive in.
By RACHEL GEPNER The subject of art in academia is something that I feel very strongly about and it is a subject that is unavoidable in Boston. You can’t throw a rock without hitting a school in this town and…
By CHARLES GIULIANO The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts includes two remarkable paintings by the French Pompier or Academic/ Salon painter, Jean-Leon Gerome (1824-1904). A student of Paul Delaroche he traveled to Turkey in 1854 and…
By THOMAS MARQUET #2: The second installment of Tom Marquet’s “The White Cube”. “The White Cube” comics can be read in series in the Big RED & Shiny Collections section. Thomas Marquet is a cartoonist, sculptor, and critic, based in…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Domingo Barreres: “Scales of Spin” Sue Yang: “Butterfly Series” Howard Yezerski Gallery 14 Newbury Street January 6 to February 7 In the work of Domingo Barreres, stretching back several decades, there is always some reference to his…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Cinema is principally a visual medium; movement and light (i.e. color and shade) are its essential properties. Some of its ancillary aspects are visual composition, in the same way as painting, and synchronized sound, which only came…
By MICAH J. MALONE The pin-up girls in Suzannah Sinclair’s drawings are not particularly interested in the viewer. With a gaze that is either inwardly focused or off into space, they seem bored more than they are concerned with being…
By MATTHEW NASH James Elkins is a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and author of numerous books on a wide range of subjects, including “Why Art Cannot Be Taught”, “The Object Stares Back”, “Master Narratives…
By RACHEL GEPNER IS THIS HOW I’M SUPPOSED TO ANSWER? by STEVE AISHMAN POSITIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE INTERFERENCE by JENNIFER SCHMIDT WEALTH OF RESOURCES by MEG ROTZEL FACT V. FICTION by ANNEKA LENSSEN CULTIVATING ARTISTS by ANTHONY TUCK RIGIDITY IN…