BEER AND BURGERS WITH MARY SHERMAN
By CHARLES GIULIANO From April 27 through 29, 2007 there will be a “Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts” hosted in Boston by TransCultural Exchange. Representatives of artist residencies,…
By CHARLES GIULIANO From April 27 through 29, 2007 there will be a “Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts” hosted in Boston by TransCultural Exchange. Representatives of artist residencies,…
By ANONYMOUS ART DEALER Q: When should I increase the prices of my paintings? I just recently got into 3 group shows and a few friends think I am pricing…
By ARTHUR WHITMAN Drawings and “works on paper” are popular these days, not simply as a medium, but also as an artistic, and perhaps more significantly, a curatorial theme. For…
By CAROLYN FRANKLIN Deb Todd Wheeler’s exhibition at Green Street Gallery is one of those shows that stays with you, nibbling at the edges of your mind, forever asking unanswered…
By PHAEDRA SHANBAUM Animated documentary film is not a new idea. Traditionally animation was used in documentaries and instructional videos as visual portrayals of abstract ideas, or as a representation…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
By Artist’s desire to create a better reality through alternative communities is not a new phenomenon. Indeed, it has been the goal of the avant-garde for the past century to…
By MARIA LACRETA Sharon Lockhart’s newest look at childhood, Pine Flat, was shown at the Harvard Film Archive, in conjunction with Pine Flat Portrait Studio, a series of 19 portraits…
By ARTHUR WHITMAN Among the many paradoxes that pervade Gerry Bergstein’s life and art (and these interpenetrate in myriad ways), perhaps the most central is that of his status in…
By ANONYMOUS ART DEALER Q: As an Italian artist based in Italy, do you think I have any chance at all to get representation in the U.S.? If so, how…
By CHARLES GIULIANO It may or may not make a difference to know the collage and assemblage based work of the leading Pop artist, Robert Rauschenberg, prior to experiencing this…
By KATHLEEN BITETTI Congrats to Big Red on the 50th issue! Turning 50 usually means that one re-examines their goals and/or sets new goals. Here are some of my goals…
By JASON DEAN Editor’s Note: In issue #46 of Big RED, Jason Dean wrote about a lecture by the collaborative eTeam and “International Airport Montello” project. After that piece was…
By JENNIFER MCMACKON To know what our neighbor knows takes some doing. Reading the same newspapers and fitting our bodies to the same machines gives some comfort, but the isolation…
By JANE HUDSON Print this article Eve Sussman has risen to international renown over the past two years since her ’89 Seconds to Alcazar’ premiered at the Whitney Biennial two…
By SCOTT ALBERG The 13 artworks that comprise Matthew Cerletty’s Fallingwater at Boston University’s Sherman Gallery show the artist building on the themes of his earlier realist portraits while engaging…