AAMD CRITICISM FOR MFA MONET LOAN TO BELLAGIO
By BIG RED Print this article Following up on a previous news story, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has been criticzed by the The Association of Art Museum Directors…
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NEW PENSION TRUST FOR UPSTART ARTISTS
By BIG RED Print this article Are you an upstart artist just getting going in the beginning of your career, only to find you should be concerned about retirement? Do…
CRITICAL ART ENSEMBLE: ARREST UPDATE
By BIG RED Print this article This past July, Dr. Steven Kurtz, member of the performance-based Critical Art Ensemble was arraigned on four counts of mail and wire fraud, and,…
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE @ THE BCA
By ANNEKA LENSSEN Print this article Here in town this summer, Company One staged their take on Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange. The play, modified from Burgess’s own stage play,…
SUMMER MOVIE EXTRAVAGANZA
By BIG RED Print this article TOM RIDGE’S THE VILLAGE by MATTHEW NASH MOTION SICKNESS & THE BOURNE SUPREMACY by JASON DEAN SPIDERMAN 2: THE CHRISTIAN HERO by BEN SLOAT…
MASSMOCA HELPS REVITALIZE NORTH ADAMS
By BIG RED Print this article Many former industrial towns over the past fifty years have experienced slow deaths. When the main employer for the town shuts down it slowly…
MATTHEW RITCHIE @ MASSMOCA
By NATHAN LEWIS Print this article This season at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, a large-scale exhibition of the work of Matthew Ritchie is an astounding accomplishment of mental…
MARJETICA POTRC @ THE LIST
By ROY STANFIELD Print this article Marjetica Potrc’s Urgent Architecture at the MIT List Visual Arts Center is so practical and so “green” that it would be very difficult to…
THAT’S ALL FOLK? BARRY MCGEE, KAI ALTHOFF AND BEYOND
By CHRISTOPHE PEREZ Print this article Two current major exhibitions in Boston feature artists that can be regarded as outsiders: Kai Althoff at the ICA, Boston, and Barry McGee at…
ARTIST AS A ROCK STAR
By KIMBERLY POTVIN Print this article Although it is difficult, let’s be realistic. There are two primary goals that every artist has while struggling through the mish-mash, aptly titled, “graduate…
7 QUESTIONS WITH JANE HUDSON
By MICAH MALONE Print this article MJM: In your essay for the last issue of Big Red and Shiny you use Eve Sussman’s video and the Nicholas Berg beheading tape…
MFA ANNOUNCES STAFF LAYOFFS
By BIG RED Print this article Having failed to deliver the needed revenue to cover expenses of operation, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has laid off 23 staff members…
NEW BRS FORUM
By BIG RED Print this article We are proud to announce that we have launched a new and improved FORUM here at Big RED. It is a free, perl-based forum…
ASUKA OHSAWA @ NAO PROJECT GALLERY
By KIMBERLY POTVIN Print this article Upon entering the NAO Project Gallery, one is instantly taken aback by the flawless appearance and high quality of Asuka Ohsawa’s work. Each painting…
INVERTED WORLD @ UNTITLED (SPACE)
By NATHAN LEWIS Print this article “One Pill makes you larger And one pill makes you small, And the ones that Mother gives you, Won’t do anything at all.” White…
BREAKING THE VIDEO FRAME
By JANE HUDSON Print this article Video is the language of our culture. Video images signal to us a technological present that reveals without reflection, and can only be witnessed…
LUNCH BOX SHOW
By JAMES PINTAR Print this article For those of us with a penchant for the collectable detritus of childhood, the metal lunchbox has always had a certain allure. So it…
DRAWING UPDATE
By LINDA PRICE SNEDDON Print this article Wow, this has been an amazing experience! As we approach Saturday, May 1st, we see a fantastic group of people that has been…
GAUGUIN @ THE MFA
By LOU LARSON Print this article You have an opportunity to win a Luxury Cruise to Tahiti aboard the six star M/S Paul Gauguin Radisson. You have until May 9…
OCD @ MILLS GALLERY
By BETH MARTIN Print this article In a society colored, shaped and devised to nurture our short attention spans, a focus on obsession is strangely refreshing. OCD (referencing Obsessive Compulsive…