By BIG RED April 7, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Tufts University, for the opening of a Museum School graduate thesis exhibition. The artists included were Stefanie Bruser-Smith, Brian Gershey, Nan C. Hockenbury, Thomas Marquet,…
By BIG RED April 4th 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the Rhys Gallery for the opening of Synergetic, featuring the work of Lana Z. Caplan, Harvey Loves Harvey and Reese Inman Photos by James Manning.…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR This April 10th, the House Ways and Means Committee proposed a budget that would include a 6% funding increase for the Massachusetts Cultural Council. This proposal overall is $3 million more than Governor Mitt Romney’s…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR The Institute of Contemporary Art has announced the finalists for the 2006 ICA Artist Prize Honoring Outstanding Boston Artist. This year’s finalists are Sheila Gallagher, Jane D. Marsching, Kelly Sherman, and Rachel Perry Welty. The…
By BIG RED Do you remember when PBS would interrupt your favorite shows to ask for money? Or when Jerry Lewis and his friends asked for your support? Every telethon appealed to the better angels of our nature, with banks…
By CHARLES GIULIANO The work of the Spanish master, Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828), is so richly diverse and complex, that depending upon what is sampled, it is possible to present him as the progenitor of just about any…
By MATTHEW GAMBER Today was Sunday; this is 41, our next offering. I have liked them both, simultaneously. Some of you, no doubt, will be reading this issue asynchronously with how we have experienced it: on the brink of having…
By GERALD ROJEK When asked to review the Frank Stella: 1958 exhibition at the Sackler Museum at Harvard University, I kept asking myself whether the current generation of painters would be interested in Frank Stella’s work, let alone a body…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Deep Wounds is nothing new from Brian Knep, though it was a commissioned piece, and—to his credit—by both the Office for the Arts of Harvard University and the Department of Systems Biology of Harvard Medical School. If…
By PHAEDRA SHANBAUM A year ago, American Repertory Theater director, Robert Woodruff, approached Boston-based video artist Denise Marika about a possible collaboration on an unwritten project by Highway Ulysses playwright Rinde Eckert. Marika, an artist who usually creates her work…
By ERIN M. SADLER Contemporary Fine Artists are unconsciously and strategically placed in the position of an economical base for a multi-billion dollar industry. Veiled by way of ideology, Art maintains earning an actual income convincingly impossible for the Artist.…