Why We Write
In 2003, artists Matthew Nash and C. Sean Horton began piecing together the concept for web-based publication that would eventually become Big Red & Shiny. It would be a forum…
Author Christian Holland
Christian Holland
Christian Holland is an aspiring New York City-based essayist who likes writing about how New York City isn't the center of the world. He was executive editor and founding contributor of Big, Red & Shiny, and sat on the publication's board for V2.
IT’S FOR THE KIDS
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Some of the most unforgettable moments from our childhood come from visits to the hospital. Those of us who made it through our formative years without a…
We Are Sorry To Report: Rotenberg Gallery to Close
A big hole will appear on Newbury Street this summer. At 130 Newbury Street, to be specific, where the Judi Rotenberg Gallery will have existed for decades. The gallery will…
Artist Combines Handmade Stoves & Biomass in “StoveLab”
The artist John Osorio Buck is organizing people to make stoves. In his Stove Lab: A Collaborative Studio project, Buck wants to encourage new approaches to potential responses to emergency…
ICA Boston Announces Finalists for Foster Prize
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston has announced nine artists as finalists for the 2010 James and Audrey Foster Prize. The honorees for the the museum’s biennial award and exhibition…
SIX QUESTIONS WITH ANTHONY GREANEY
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND One year after opening his gallery at 460 Harrison, the gallerist Anthony Greaney has moved to new, more accessible space on the corner of 450 Harrison -…
The World Famous Secretary in For You, 9-5
Jessica Gath reckons she will have typed about 200 letters and postcards by the time she’s done. On a decades-old Royal “Quiet De Luxe” typewriter in immaculate condition, the painter…
CA$H FOR YOU WARHOLS!
Call (617) 533-1103 or (617) 480-2994 if you have a Warhol to sell! But if you call one of those numbers, each of which has appeared on signs created by…
JILL SLOSBURG-ACKERMAN’S “IMPORT-EXPORT: REMAINS,” AN ODE.
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Last April I went to an art exhibit at Brown University’s Nightingale-Brown House. The building houses the John Nicholas Brown Center’s masters degree program in Public Humanities,…
Mayoral Candidate Flaherty’s 10 Point Plan for Boston’s Creative Economy
City Councilor Michael Flaherty is the only candidate of the four men running for mayor of Boston that has an official written position on the creative economy, artists and arts&culture.…
THERE ARE NO NEW IDEAS: EPILOGUE
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND In the spring of 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court forged a new precedent for the matter of “obviousness”1 as it pertains to patents in the unanimously decided…
Artadia Announces 2009 Boston Awardees
Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue has announced the seven awardees for 2009 in Boston. The two awardees at the $15,000 level are Amie Siegel and Joe Zane; the…
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR By Christian Holland I’ve realized that the experience of driving across the country merely affords one with the sensation of exhaustion. The pilgrimage that many young people…
A Q&A WITH YASSY GOLDIE
A Q&A WITH YASSY GOLDIE By Christian Holland Images and the persona of Yassy Goldie, the Master Representative for the Golden Jasmine Yeti Dancers, have been rendered ad infinitum by the…
WILLIAM POPE.L: CORBU POPS
WILLIAM POPE.L: CORBU POPS By Christian Holland In his exhibition Corbu Pops, artist William Pope.L launches an assault on the show’s venue, Harvard’s big sandy-gray Modernist bastion, the Carpenter Center for…
Boston Street Artist Alphabet Soup talks about “Supply and Demand”
Like Shepard Fairey, Alphabet Soup reuses potent images in much of his work has been active in both the street and gallery. ‘Alph’ differs with Fairey, however, on the articulation…
A CONVERSATION WITH LEON JOHNSON
A CONVERSATION WITH LEON JOHNSON By Christian Holland Leon Johnson is the Berwick Research Institute’s new Director in Residence (DiR). Having just taken over late in 2008, he will lead the…
THERE ARE NO NEW IDEAS. PART 3
THERE ARE NO NEW IDEAS. PART 3 By Christian Holland Part 3 of a 3-Part Series. Click here for Part 1 and here for part 2. Some philosophers, scientists and artists,…
THERE ARE NO NEW IDEAS. PART 2
THERE ARE NO NEW IDEAS. PART 2 By Christian Holland Part 2 of a 3-Part Series. Click here for Part 1. Plato believed that any idea was attainable by an individual,…
NEW IDEAS. NO, I MEAN IDEAS THAT NO ONE HAS HEARD OF BEFORE.
NEW IDEAS. NO, I MEAN IDEAS THAT NO ONE HAS HEARD OF BEFORE. By Christian Holland Part 1 of a 3-Part Series. I regret to inform you, but there are no…