AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE @ BCA
AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE @ BCA By Megan Driscoll The students in the MIT Visual Studies graduate program are not really conventional artists. These individuals are engaged in scientific,…
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BIG RED GOES MOBILE
BIG RED GOES MOBILE By Big Red The iPhone, Blackberry, and all the other mobile devices that pervade our lives have brought a new mobility to information that never existed before.…
ROUNDTABLE
ROUNDTABLE By Big Red Roundtable is a new feature where the staff at Big RED & Shiny respond to questions that are pertinent to the art world, simply on our minds,…
SAM MESSER, HANGING CORRESPONDENCE @ NIELSEN GALLERY
SAM MESSER, HANGING CORRESPONDENCE @ NIELSEN GALLERY By Nisha Maxwell Editor’s Note: It’s been pointed out that subject of the portraits discussed in this review are not Sam Messer, the creator…
THE DUMBING DOWN OF ART
THE DUMBING DOWN OF ART By Judy Kermis Blotnick I l-o-o-o-o-ve art. I love thinking about it, talking about it, looking at it, smelling it, love the cozy vibe of…
ANDY WARHOL: SCREEN TESTS & PHOTOGRAPHS @ COLBY MUSEUM
ANDY WARHOL: SCREEN TESTS & PHOTOGRAPHS @ COLBY MUSEUM By Elena Sarni Despite my Maine-based starting point, and rather heavy, highway driving foot, it was still a two-hour trip to Waterville,…
ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE @ THE CUTLER MAJESTIC THEATRE
ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE @ THE CUTLER MAJESTIC THEATRE By Chelsey Philpot On Tuesday, April 28th the Celebrity Series of Boston once again brought the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater troupe…
A FEW APPARITIONS OF NATIONHOOD @ THE ALDRICH MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
A FEW APPARITIONS OF NATIONHOOD @ THE ALDRICH MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART By Alex Young With its current suite of exhibitions by artists: Dave Cole, Alejandro Diaz, Robert Lazzarini, Frank Poor,…
HOLLY GABORIAULT @ AS220’S OPEN WINDOW
HOLLY GABORIAULT @ AS220’S OPEN WINDOW By Nisha Maxwell Holly Gaboriault, known as Madame Meow, draws us into a complexly tiered world. Aesthetically the work captivates through medium, color and ingenuity.…
THE 2009 BOSTON CYBERARTS FESTIVAL
THE 2009 BOSTON CYBERARTS FESTIVAL By Big Red Every two years, New Englanders are treated to an art spectacle that is uniquely Bostonian. The Cyberarts Festival is a showcase for…
FASHION AS ART, PART 2
FASHION AS ART, PART 2 By Judy Kermis Blotnick In writing about fashion as a true art form there is the slight temptation to pull one’s shoulders up around one’s…
GIMP @ THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART
GIMP @ THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART By Chelsey Philpot The prologue to the Friday, April 24th performance of “GIMP” at the ICA began outside on the museum’s gymnasium-sized wooden deck…
ARTFORCE! CAMBRIDGE @ CACG
ARTFORCE! CAMBRIDGE @ CACG By Angela Lauren Speece “This isn’t your newspaper critic’s gallery show,” exclaims the ArtForce! Cambridge invitation– which unsurprisingly makes this exhibition especially compelling to review. Leave…
AN INTERVIEW WITH VIK MUNIZ
AN INTERVIEW WITH VIK MUNIZ By Jason Landry Vik Muniz was in Boston recently for two sold-out lectures at the MFA. Jeffrey Keough, former Director of Exhibitions at the Massachusetts College…
10 YEARS OF CYBERARTS: A Q&A WITH GEORGE FIFIELD
10 YEARS OF CYBERARTS: A Q&A WITH GEORGE FIFIELD By Nina J. Berger Cyber artists from all over the world converge on Boston when the sixth Boston Cyberarts Festival opens on…
IRVING HAYNES: ABSTRACTIONS @ NEWPORT ART MUSEUM
IRVING HAYNES: ABSTRACTIONS @ NEWPORT ART MUSEUM By Joe Leduc Striving to explain to an interviewer why he continued to paint the same subject, an elderly Josef Albers proudly reached back…
CHARLES A. LOWE @ CAPE ANN MUSEUM
CHARLES A. LOWE @ CAPE ANN MUSEUM By Kate Laurel Burgess Most “Year in the Life of…” exhibitions focus on a person and their discoveries, triumphs and events of a single…
2009 PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART BIENNIAL
2009 PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART BIENNIAL By Elena Sarni In a striking change of pace from the past nine Biennials, this year’s Portland Museum of Art Biennial jurors accepted about 1/3…
CHUNKY MOVE @ THE ICA
CHUNKY MOVE @ THE ICA By Chelsey Philpot In the question and answer session that followed the Australian-based dance troupe Chunky Move’s performance at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA),…
ART AS FASHION, PART ONE
ART AS FASHION, PART ONE By Judy Kermin Blotnick Fashion and art have frequently run on parallel tracks historically (and sometimes hysterically.) Art has been used to cloak in grandeur…