PHOTO EXCHANGERS @ CAMBRIDGE MULTICULTURAL ART CENTER
By JEREMIAS PAUL When I was child, my family traveled extensively, not just around my country of birth, Germany, but also throughout the surrounding countries that stretched from the North…
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INSIDE PREVIEW: THE NEW INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART
By JAMES HULL At first after putting on a hard hat, we walked across a drawbridge of perforated metal flooring and into the new Institute of Contemporary Art. I did…
THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART: HISTORY AND FUTURE
By ARIEL PITTMAN Founded in 1936, the Institute of Contemporary Art is one of the oldest non-collecting contemporary arts institutions in the United States. We strive to share the pleasures…
THE CREATIVE ALLIANCE COLUMN
By KATHLEEN BITETTI What to do on your summer vacation- Creative Alliance reading/web list I have been making a list of great books and websites for artists and supporters of…
AHISTORY AT MASS MOCA
By CHARLES GIULIANO The sprawling complex of galleries, a cluster of connected industrial buildings of the former Sprague Electric Company in North Adams, Mass. may be described as the visual…
WOLFGANG TILLMANS @ THE MCA: CHICAGO
By BAD AT SPORTS Tillmans confronts and confounds us with a seemingly endless stream of images, in what undoubtedly must be looked upon as a kind of mediated “stream” of…
THE CREATIVE ALLIANCE COLUMN
By KATHLEEN BITETTI The revolution will not be televised Part Two- Fair Trades Means Fair Trade. There has been an explosion of art auctions to raise moneys for non-profit organizations.…
THE STEPHEN D. PAINE SCHOLARSHIP EXHIBITION
By CHARLES GIULIANO In the late 60s and 70s, the dark ages for the arts in Boston, when the Institute of Contemporary Art was the only, struggling, act in town,…
WE FELT YOUR PAIN
By ROB CLIFFORD In the last issue of Big RED & Shiny, executive editor Rachel Gepner wrote of her time in the SoWa gallery/studio complex. Her piece prompted a range…
THE ANNUAL @ THE DECORDOVA
By ARTHUR WHITMAN The main problem with the 2006 DeCordova Annual Exhibition, aside from its predictable unevenness, is that the work within doesn’t interrelate very well. Each of the thirteen…
CLIMATE CHANGE PREPAREDNESS CENTER @ ZEITGEIST
By JUDITH LEEMANN Several years ago Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois, Chicago re-staged the 1976 work Rayna by James Turrell. This installation consists of a dimly lit room…
THE PRESENT TENSE @ THE MIDWAY STUDIOS
By MARK SNYDER I am really excited to see that there is a growing performance art scene in Boston. The Present Tense is the latest effort to gather together artists,…
SWEETNESS @ THE SHERMAN GALLERY
By HEIDI MARSTON On Friday, June 6th, Sweetness, an exhibition of work in various media by 5 women artists, opened at the Sherman Gallery on the Boston University campus. The…
AARON BREWER & MICHAEL MAHALCHICK @ SECOND GALLERY
By EAN FRICK When living in an age of over consumption we often find ourselves searching for gold among the piles of plastic. Aaron Brewer and Michael Mahalchick’s installations, currently…
PROFILE: JEFFREY ELLSE
By ANNA FAKTOROVICH The message is on the wall, in the yellow rectangle drawn around the eleven oil portraits on panel. Jeffrey Ellse’s art is trapped in rectangles. His art…
ERWIN WURM AND SARAH WALKER @ THE ROSE
By CHARLES GIULIANO For Austrian artists of the generation of Erwin Wurm, born in 1954, the challenge has been to get out from under the formidable gravitas of the strum…
SO LONG, SOWA
By RACHEL GEPNER April 1st of last year I was homeless, penniless and jobless, but I had a studio in 450 Harrison Ave in SoWa. I still remember how proud…
PROJECTING IN LIGHT @ WIT
By KATHRYN ADA DUTOIT Death. Suffering. Self-image. These ideas and more are explored by Boston artists Bebe Beard and Linda Leslie Brown in new digital-based work in Projecting in Light,…
A CONVERSATION WITH JOHN MALPEDE & HARRELL FLETCHER
By JASON SCHIEDEL On April 27th the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT opened an exhibition of two projects by artists John Malpede and Harrell Fletcher with works that…
CREATIVE ALLIANCE COLUMN
By KATHLEEN BITETTI The revolution will not be televised Part One- the Creative Economy and Cultural Development Addressing creative economy & tourism issues What the foundation of creative economy is…