HUANG YONG PING @ MASS MOCA
By CHARLES GIULIANO Entering a small constructed space we encounter a work from 1994 “The Wise Man Learns from the Spider How to Spin the Web,” by the artist, Huang…
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BLOOD ON YOUR SADDLE @ 40000, CHICAGO
By BAD AT SPORTS A mouth-less snowman seems to cry out from a turbulent ground, imploring us with unseen lips, begging for some kind of crutch upon which it could…
THE GIFT @ ART IN GENERAL, NYC
By JASON DEAN Gift and Commodity Transactions in Contemporary Practice, a lecture hosted by Art in General Art is not an ordinary commodity. Art is not a loaf of bread:…
FRAGMENT FIESTA!: ABIGAIL CHILD @ AGASSIZ HOUSE, RADCLIFFE INSTITUTE
By KAREN SCHIFF On the opening day of Abigail Child’s exhibition of films and prints Mirror World, film theorist Laura Mulvey gave a talk at the Museum of Fine Arts,…
POST & ROAST @ 130 CALUMET
By RACHEL GEPNER Under normal circumstances this piece would have appeared in the “On the Town” section of Big RED & Shiny because I didn’t intend to review the work…
OUR FAVORITE BLOGS
By BIG RED EDITORS With the launch of Geoff Edgers new blog “The Exhibitionist” via The Boston Globe, we at Big RED thought it would be a good time to…
GOYA AT THE FRICK
By CHARLES GIULIANO The work of the Spanish master, Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828), is so richly diverse and complex, that depending upon what is sampled, it is possible…
FRANK STELLA @ THE SACKLER
By GERALD ROJEK When asked to review the Frank Stella: 1958 exhibition at the Sackler Museum at Harvard University, I kept asking myself whether the current generation of painters would…
ORPHEUS X & DENISE MARIKA @ THE A.R.T.
By PHAEDRA SHANBAUM A year ago, American Repertory Theater director, Robert Woodruff, approached Boston-based video artist Denise Marika about a possible collaboration on an unwritten project by Highway Ulysses playwright…
FOOD <=> ART
By ERIN M. SADLER Contemporary Fine Artists are unconsciously and strategically placed in the position of an economical base for a multi-billion dollar industry. Veiled by way of ideology, Art…
THAT WAVE IS ON THE BEACH, PART I
By LUANNE STOVALL Editor’s note: This piece is the first in a series of articles concerned with a new model for art education. In response to the questions submitted to…
THE CREATIVE ALLIANCE COLUMN
By KATHLEEN BITETTI An interview with a true Citizen Artist Sand T is an artist, activist, and founder of artSPACE@16. She has been doing some amazing community building for artists…
DAMIAN LOEB @ THE ALDRICH
By CHARLES GIULIANO There was a circus like ambiance last Sunday when I attended a spate of openings in a cluster of galleries at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in…
BEER AND BURGERS WITH TOM SMITH
By CHARLES GIULIANO Five years ago Tom Smith, who with his wife Becky Kidder, runs Kidder Smith Gallery hit Boston’s staid Newbury Street like a human tsunami. With an impeccable,…
A LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
By RACHEL GEPNER I had a hard time coming up with a topic for my Letter From the Editor. I wanted to say something pertinent and useful and possibly even…
THREAD COUNTS @ GASP
By JONATHAN FARDY Somewhere between the blueberry pie and the vampire costume, I paused to reflect on the thoughtfully tangled way that the forty plus artists of the Thread Counts…
JOE ZANE @ ALLSTON SKIRT
By JASON SCHIEDEL There’s something in the air at Joe Zane’s terrific solo show at Allston Skirt. Titled Personality, these diverse works of sculpture, painting, drawing and audio tackle the…
POLLOCK MATTERS OVERSHADOW CAA CONFERENCE
By CHARLES GIULIANO “I am attending this conference under an assumed name,” Professor Ellen Landau of Case Western Reserve University informed the audience during a session “Jackson Pollock’s Afterlife” during…
THE CREATIVE ALLIANCE COLUMN
By KATHLEEN BITETTI Why every artist should know who all their elected officials are. As a working artist, as an activist, and also as the executive director for the Artists…
THOMAS ALLEN @ BERNARD TOALE GALLERY
By CAROLYN FRANKLIN Have you ever judged a book by it’s cover? Sure you have, it’s a part of life. If no one judged books by their cover, there would…