By BIG RED March 16th, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the grand opening of Space 186. The new joint gallery space between Axiom and Zeitgiest. The first exhibit is “A Means of Illumination” by Allison…
By BIG RED March 18th, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Studio Soto for the video screening “One Night Stand”. Studio Soto
By BIG RED March 11th. 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED afternoon on-the-town at the Artist Foundation Gallery in South Boston for the opening of three solo exhibits : Hiroko Kikuchi “Skinshipu”, Charlie Collidge’s “The Office” and Liz Nofziger’s…
By BIG RED March 10th, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the opening of SNAP! CLICK! BANG! at the Rhys Gallery. The exhibit of 4 photographers Alison Lessmann, Jesse Burke, Alicia Colen and Kevin Kennedy, guest…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR This past February, a 12 year old student stuck an piece of chewed up gum to the surface of the well loved Helen Frankenthaler painting, “The Bay”. While the gum did not adhere to the…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Ten museums affected by hurricanes Katrina and Rita have been awarded special grants from the MIT-based Museum Loan Network (MLN). The organization has provided $4500 to each institution for museum staff to travel to other…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Five years ago Tom Smith, who with his wife Becky Kidder, runs Kidder Smith Gallery hit Boston’s staid Newbury Street like a human tsunami. With an impeccable, neat as a pin, obsessively minimalist, high concept space it…
By RACHEL GEPNER I had a hard time coming up with a topic for my Letter From the Editor. I wanted to say something pertinent and useful and possibly even intelligent – to discuss what’s been on my mind and…
By MICAH J. MALONE “In the end it comes down to what it always comes down to: vision and visionaries. All we have to do is bring it on and not be boring.” -Jerry Saltz —- Finding fresh criticism for…
By JONATHAN FARDY Somewhere between the blueberry pie and the vampire costume, I paused to reflect on the thoughtfully tangled way that the forty plus artists of the Thread Counts Project succeeded in interpreting the show’s thematic structure. Inspired by…
By JASON SCHIEDEL There’s something in the air at Joe Zane’s terrific solo show at Allston Skirt. Titled Personality, these diverse works of sculpture, painting, drawing and audio tackle the increasingly difficult question of what it takes for an artist…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Christian Holland: I think this is the 3rd time you’ve been in the Whitney Biennial? Joe Gibbons: It’s actually the 4th time, starting in 95, I think. CH: I guess the first time an artist is in…
By MICAH J. MALONE MM: In looking at your films, I was thinking of the concept of “in-between” and how that particular space-time is rarely represented in film. For instance, your film “Fissures”, where throughout the film you are literally…