By BIG RED Thursday November 9th 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the opening reception for Rick Harlow ‘Paintings’ and Barry Goldstein ‘Veterans’ at The New England School of Art and Design at Suffok University. —…
By BIG RED November 11th, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at GREEN STREET GALLERY for the opening of Deb Todd Wheeler: Live Experiments in Human Energy Exchange – Photographs by Jeremias Paul. Green Street Gallery
By BIG RED Friday November 17th 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at opening of Studios @ 35: Artists at the Boston Center for the Arts. Curated by James Manning. Artists: Martha Jane Bradford, James Cambronne, Sue…
By BIG RED November 4th, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Saltworks Gallery in Atlanta GA for the opening of Michael Scoggins, The Patiot Letters and the Avantika Bawa curation, SISYPHEAN DESIRES, SYSTEMS AND DEVICES, as…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Auction prices for both modern and post-war work is hitting all time highs once again. In what feels like a weekly trend, the single night art auction record of $491 million was established at Christies.…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR From November 12-15, 2006, Boston was home to the annual Grantmakers In The Arts conference, this year called the ‘Beantown Remix’. Held at the Omni Parker House, hundreds of representatives from nearly every major arts…
By ANONYMOUS ART DEALER Q: How do you find artists? Do you ever have relationships with artists that send you portfolios in the mail? A: I usually find artists from word of mouth. I would have an artist friend that…
By JAIMES MAYHEW On Sunday, October 1st, the Institute for Infinitely Small Things traveled down to Providence to observe the Disaster Drill that was being staged in Kennedy Plaza. This was just one of many Disaster Drills that have been…
By THOMAS MARQUET #7: Thomas Marquet’s comic strip about life in a gallery. “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 JENNIFER MCMACKON TAAFI is in full swing. Holding its third annual event in Toronto and the crowds are out and the hype is on. I’m in room 203 of the tony Drake Hotel speaking with John McLachlin about his…
By GARY DUEHR Every work of visual art is an object of desire. It makes you want to get closer, see more, feel the texture. And usually, of course, this is forbidden or impossible—either because the artwork is on display,…
By BEN SLOAT The idea of humans having five senses comes from Aristotle, relating to his greater writings on perception, a condition he used to distinguish animals from plants. In the Aristotelian philosophy, an animal’s lifetime is defined by its…
By JON PETRO I once attended a lecture where Zach Feuer, ex-Bostonian and proprietor of a number of galleries in NYC, spoke to an audience of 20 or so newbies about how to make it in our current art market.…
By MATTHEW NASH ‘Patamechanics is a method of discovering/manifesting artifacts’ much like those of the ancient Wonder-rooms, ‘which symbolically attribute their properties described by their virtuality to their lineaments.’ A Patamechanical artifact or device is displayed with the intention of…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Note: This piece is the second in a series of interviews by Christian Holland with the four 2006 finalists for the ICA prize. You can read his interview with finalist Kelly Sherman here. Look for more interviews…
By MATTHEW GAMBER A professor I once had was always probing students for the core of what made people want to create. She was little interested in what socialized rationale students offered, because it was usually safe to say in…