The Boston Problem: A Response to the Boston Creates Cultural Plan
Monday at 5 pm public comments on the Boston Creates Cultural Plan will close. (The full text of the plan draft can be read here along with community comments, including…
Author Brian Christopher Glaser
Brian Christopher Glaser
Brian is an artist, educator and Boston-native and is the Managing Editor of BR&S, coordinating the editorial activities of the publication. He has a BFA from Tulane University in New Orleans and his MFA in Sculpture from MassArt. Brian is also an Assistant Lecturer and the Instructional Media Specialist for the Sculpture and Digital Media disciplines at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
BIG RED SHINDIG: Art on the Walls
As we rapidly approach tomorrow’s Big Red Shindig, we want to share with you work from some of the great artists we’ll be showcasing. This year we’re excited to partner with…
BIG RED SHINDIG
There are only two more days until our fourth BIG RED SHINDIG, our annual fundraiser and celebration of the launch of our new website. Again with generous support from our friends at…
Samuel Rowlett: Itinerant Painter
Artist Samuel Rowlett, whose work mines the relationship between studio practice, community engagement and exploration, is hitting the streets today with his mobile portrait painting studio. Taking inspiration from peripatetic painters…
Boston Common: GRIN
“Boston Common” highlights the people and organizations that shape Boston and New England’s cultural sector by going straight to the source to find out who they are, what they are…
Thesis Show Round-Up: Boston University MFA Exhibition
Around this time every year we are provided with some of these best new voices and, given the number of academic institutions in our area, we have quite a bit…
On Writing and Interacting
You may remember completing our brief readership survey last fall, although that blissfully snowless period seems like eons ago. You might remember, then, giving us a piece of your mind,…
Big Red & Shiny Turns 10: Part 2
Born out of a conversation in 2002 between an SMFA graduate student (Sean Horton) and instructor (Matthew Nash) about the viability of bringing arts coverage in Boston to the web,…
Big Red & Shiny Turns 10: Part 1
Born out of a conversation in 2002 between an SMFA graduate student (Sean Horton) and instructor (Matthew Nash) about the viability of bringing arts coverage in Boston to the web,…
A Tug at the Archive: Brian’s 2013 Favorites
2013’s end is nigh, and we at BR&S can hardly believe it. We’re full of pride over what we’ve been able to accomplish and cover in our first full calendar…
Thesis Show Round-Up Part #3: Boston University BFA Exhibition
With the end of Big Red & Shiny’s first academic year quickly approaching, we’ve been taking stock of the past 8 months to identify our successes and re-evaluate where…
Thesis Show Round-Up Part #1: Boston University MFA Exhibition
With the end of Big Red & Shiny’s first academic year back quickly approaching, we’ve been taking stock of the past 8 months to identify our successes and re-evaluate where…
Prescription for a Healthy Art Scene
In the months leading up to Big Red & Shiny’s relaunch, the editorial team spent a lot of time developing our mission statement. Our ideas for it were many and…
Effects of fiscal cliff deal still uncertain for many arts organizations
Last week that somewhat abstract, somewhat media-hyped notion of a fiscal cliff appeared to have been resolved with the mini-agreement coming from Congressional leaders. Concessions made by both parties produced…
Inside Out: JR Uretsky
https://vimeo.com/58230343 Our Daily Red is pleased to continue our artist-in-residence series titled Inside Out. Every month, a new guest artist will have access to the platform to publish images…
Inaugural Boston Cyberarts Gallery exhibition: COLLISION18:Present
While driving home from my family’s house on Black Friday I was surprised to see an open sign in front of the Boston Cyberarts Gallery. I had missed the opening…
Nuclear Politics and Picasso
On October 22, 1962 in his home in southern France, an aging 81-year old Pablo Picasso watched then U.S. President John F. Kennedy announce the discovery of Soviet nuclear missiles…
Platforms of Power: paintings by Daniel Rich at the MFA
In 1986, the Westin Stamford Hotel in Singapore became the newly crowned “world’s tallest hotel.” Sensing an opportunity to attract Western investors into their market and a chance to appear…
Something Along Those Lines
“Something Along Those Lines” is formed loosely around Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing #118. His piece, as explained thoroughly in both the wall text and the press release, has close ties…
@fter Midnight
The phenomenon of the cinematic “midnight movie” emerged, not surprisingly, out of local television. Facilitated by a new agreement under a Screen Actors Guild residuals payment plan, stations in the…