PURE @ FORMER OFFICE SUPPLY SUPERSTORE
By JEREMIAS PAUL A pure examination of the artists and work in “PURE”. Links: reAnimation Studios “Pure” is on view until Novemer 12th at the Brighton Hills Shopping Center (in…
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CONFESSIONS OF AN ART SHOW DOWN CONTESTANT
By HEIDI MARSTON When I first started writing this I had trouble putting into words what it exactly it was that made me so psyched to be a contestant on…
ADVICE FOR ARTISTS
By ANONYMOUS ART DEALER Have you ever wondered how the gallery business works? Are you an artist who wants to sell your work, but have questions or concerns? Are you…
THE CREATIVE ALLIANCE COLUMN
By KATHLEEN BITETTI What makes a scam a scam? As a continuation in the spirit of my column on fair trade means fair trade — I want to first alert…
VANESSA TROPEANO @ CHASE GALLERY
By FRANK PEREZ I’m new to Boston, been here a little more than a week. Before I showed up, I had heard about Newbury Street as the place where art…
BALANCE AND POWER @ THE ROSE
By JEREMIAS PAUL You are being watched. We all are. As I write this in the solitary confinement of my apartment, I am reminded, by the sight of the ominous…
KENRO IZU @ ROBERT KLEIN GALLERY
By JON PETRO The human eyes consist of two different types of photoreceptors, rods and cones, which send information to the brain for interpretation. The rods number in the 120…
BACK TO SCHOOL: JUNIOR YEAR
By BIG RED & SHINY REGENERATION @ AIB by BEN SLOAT LOïS MAïLOU JONES: THE EARLY WORKS @ THE MUSEUM SCHOOL by MATTHEW NASH CRAFTY @ MASSART by CHRISTIAN…
JOIN THE BIG RED ARMY
By BIG RED EDITORS Big RED & Shiny is always looking for people who are excited about art and want to write about it. As the new season kicks off…
THE ALDRICH MUSEUM COMBINES NATIVE AND NON NATIVE ARTISTS
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article The exhibition “No Reservations: Native American History and Culture in Contemporary Art” curated by Richard Klein for the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgfield,…
INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MONTELLO: A TRAVELOGUE (PART ONE)
By JASON DEAN Editor’s Note: In issue #46 of Big RED & Shiny, Jason Dean wrote a piece about the German collaborative eTeam and their “International Airport Montello” project. Since…
JOE WARDWELL @ ALLSTON SKIRT
By JON PETRO Onanism is the act of self-gratification practiced by millions of people everyday. So if an artist chooses to bring his fetish to the venue of fine art,…
THE CREATIVE ALLIANCE COLUMN
By KATHLEEN BITETTI Jason Schupbach is the director of ArtistLink which is currently housed at the Massachusetts Cultural Council. He has been attending meetings for artist housing and artist work…
I’M A CROTCHETY OLD MAN
By JASON DEAN At art school in NY city, I learned an important lesson that no ridiculous amount of tuition could have taught me: no one is about to hold…
IDIOM MAXIMIST: A STUDIO VISIT WITH TORONTO ARTIST ANDREW REYES
By JENNIFER MCMACKON I’m in the studio of Toronto artist Andrew Reyes. With upcoming solo exhibitions both here at Diaz Contemporary and stateside at Buffalo’s Hallwalls, he’s an artist to…
PAINTING SUMMER IN NEW ENGLAND @ THE PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM
By JON PETRO I went to see Katz. Honestly, I really did. The single, self-serving reason I drove to the Peabody Essex Museum, in Salem, MA, was to see a…
MARY ELLEN STROM TALKS @ JUDI ROTENBERG GALLERY
By JASON DEAN In Venus at Her Mirror, a well-known painting by Diego Velasquez, Venus reclines on a sofa with her back to the viewer. She’s looking back at the…
THE BROTHERS CLARK: STEPHEN AND STERLING
By CHARLES GIULIANO The first patent for a mechanical sewing machine was awarded to a British inventor, Thomas Saint, in 1790 but it is not known if he built a…
ETEAM: MONTELLO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, MONTELLO, NV
By JASON DEAN Recently I went to the Art in General artist talk at Sara Meltzer Gallery of Eteam’s project “Montello International Airport.” I had briefly looked at Eteam’s website…
GREY|AREA @ GUESTROOM GALLERY, PORTLAND, OR
By AVANTIKA BAWA grey|area, curated by TJ Norris at the Guestroom Gallery in Portland, Oregon is an aptly titled show, which exhibits the work of thirteen West Coast artists. The…