CRAIG DRENNEN @ SAMSON PROJECTS
By TODD MARSTON, KAI MCMURTRY, PATRICK SHORT & HEIDI MARSTON Print this article Editor’s Note: There’s something about the work of Craig Drennen that makes people want to respond. His…
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THE IMPACT OF MOONINITES ON PUBLIC ART
By SUSAN SAKASH & PIXNIT Print this article LET’S CALL A SPADE A SPADE by SUSAN SAKASH THEATER OF THE ABSURD by PIXNIT In April of 2006, five teen-aged girls…
PAINE SCHOLARS @ NESAD
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article Boston is renowned for its many educational institutions and a significant number of these colleges and universities offer degree programs in the fine arts.…
ADVICE FOR ARTISTS
By ANONYMOUS ART DEALER Print this article I have received a lot of questions by the readers of Big RED & Shiny and have really enjoyed addressing them in this…
REMEMBERING CLIFF
By JEFF FREEDNER Print this article Editor’s Note: Two days after launching issue #55, we received an email concerning our news item about the passing of Cliff Pfeiffer. It came…
ART BASEL DOUBLE TAKE: MIAMI’S CULTURAL CHANGE
By JOHN RUGGIERI Print this article I’d been to South Beach only once before for a brief winter respite in the early 90s, when the main strip, Ocean Drive, was…
BALMY NIGHT LURES ART MOB TO BOSTON’S SOWA GALLERIES
By CHARLES GIULIANO “Nobody wanted to show in January,” related my colleague, the artist Linda Leslie Brown, during the opening of her show last night at the cooperative Kingston Gallery…
ADVICE FOR ARTISTS
By ANONYMOUS ART DEALER Q: Dear Art Dealer, My gallery has told me that I have sold artwork and I haven’t seen a payment yet. It’s been three weeks since…
AN INTERVIEW WITH DAVID KRAMER
By JENNIFER MCMACKON David Kramer is a New York artist who has exhibited in Toronto for the last fourteen years. I interviewed David via email at the close of his…
NON-EVENT: LOCAL EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC SHOWCASE
By MARIA LACRETA Sound art, like any newer medium that has been around for about a century, has had to re-work our definitions of what art, and more specifically in…
LAURIE REID @ OSP GALLERY
By KAREN SCHIFF Imagine taking a fistful of crayons, wrapping them in a spider’s sac, hanging the sac from an open windowframe, and letting a gentle breeze make the colors…
ART BASEL, MIAMI
By AISHMAN, MANNING, URBATI & PAUL MIAMI HEAT by JAMES MANNING SIT BACK AND RELAX: AN ABBREVIATED TOUR OF FILM AND VIDEO AT MIAMI BASEL by KATHARINE URBATI THE…
2006 YEAR IN REVIEW
By BIG RED It seems to be a New Year’s tradition to include a list of the best or worst of the past year, and we at Big RED &…
SIX HOURS IN PHILADELPHIA ON SUNDAY
By JOANNE MATTERA After the dozenth, “Sorry we have no rooms,” and an uncomfortable number of, “Sorry we have no rooms in your price range,” I decided to fly to…
THE 5TH INTERNATIONAL DESIGN BIENNIAL
By BETH MOSHER What would you do in a small town if the coal mines closed, the bicycle, ribbon and weapons factories shuttered, and there was not much left to…
STEVE HOLLINGER @ CHASE GALLERY
By LISA SUTCLIFFE In October I visited Steve Hollinger’s studio at Fort Point and got a preview of the work now on view at Chase Gallery. The work was so…
SAM DURANT @ MASSART
By SCOTT ALBERG Almost every American remembers learning about the Pilgrims, Squanto, and the first Thanksgiving in elementary school. We learned about the treacherous sail of the Mayflower, the writing…
CECI MENDEZ @ THE ARTISTS FOUNDATION
By DAWOUD BEY I had the wonderful opportunity this past weekend to see an excellent exhibition in Boston that demonstrates, in the best way, how a set of ideas can…
BEER AND BURGERS: DENISE MARIKA
By CHARLES GIULIANO The body work, video installations of Denise Marika have been regularly exhibited at the Howard Yezerski Gallery, and in site specific installations at the Isabella Gardner Museum,…
ADVICE FOR ARTISTS
By ANONYMOUS ART DEALER Q: My painting style has recently changed and I have grown tremendously as an artist. My paintings used to be smaller plein-air landscapes. I have taken…