WAR AND DISCONTENT @ MFA
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND The curators of the MFA have titled a survey show of war-themed work spanning several centuries War and Discontent. There is a relationship between those two words,…
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.
JENNY HOLZER @ BARBARA KRAKOW
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND “If you don’t have anything worth saying, don’t say it.” This was a popular aphorism that the more erudite girls would tell the boys on the elementary…
ZIDANE, A 21ST-CENTURY PORTRAIT
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND This week, the ICA Boston presents Zidane, A 21st-Century Portrait (2005), a film in which 17 35mm cameras follow the French footballer Zinedine Zidane for 90 minutes.…
AHISTORIC OCCASION: ARTISTS MAKING HISTORY @ MASSMOCA
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND History will be interpreted differently by different individuals and communities. It goes without saying. In fact, “History” is an interpretation, an interpretation of the past. MassMoca’s show,…
A LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Here comes Peter Cottontail, hopping down the bunny trail. Once every Spring, on Easter Sunday, Christians commemorate the reanimation of Jesus of Nazareth (aka Jesus Christ), a…
LIZ NOFZIGER @ THE BERWICK AND IN CHICAGO
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Liz Nofziger is an artist with bright orange-red highlights in her hair and robustly rimmed glasses that remind me of the pair an old carpenter might wear…
SENSORIUM, PART II
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Print this article The scratch and sniff walls are gone, along with the trippy hallway, though the Star Wars helmets and 2001: A Space Odyssey set reproduction…
THEMIRACLE5: ¡ATTACK! @ THE RHYS GALLERY
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Print this article In today’s terms, the superhero is a component of the contemporary mythological psyche. They are a representative from the everyday world, touched with ultra-human…
FOUR COMPOSITIONS BY FOUR MALDONIANS
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Print this article Composition is the most basic underpinning of visual communication, if not all visual art-making. It is both a tool and a skill, learned and…
STUDIOS@35 AT THE BCA
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND In order to celebrate its 35th birthday, the Boston Center for the Arts showcased artists from its studios, past and present. The show, Studios@35, held in the…
A PATRICK/MURRAY CREATIVE ECONOMY COMMUNITY MEETING
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Deval Patrick and Tim Murray will have had nine weeks between Election Day and inauguration to prepare a new administration for their next four years in office.…
A CONVERSATION WITH SHEILA GALLAGHER & RACHEL PERRY WELTY
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Note: This piece is the third and final of a series of interviews by Christian Holland with the four 2006 finalists for the ICA’s James and Audrey…
A CONVERSATION WITH JANE D. MARSCHING
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Note: This piece is the second in a series of interviews by Christian Holland with the four 2006 finalists for the ICA prize. You can read his…
A PATRICK/MURRAY CREATIVE ECONOMY COMMUNITY MEETING
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Deval Patrick and Tim Murray will have had nine weeks between Election Day and inauguration to prepare a new administration for their next four years in office.…
A LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND On Sunday, November 5, 2006, the 401st Guy Fawkes Night was celebrated. Today, we bring to you the 51st issue of Big RED and shiny. The most…
LAURA EVANS @ BOSTON SCULPTORS GALLERY
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND I don’t know how many times I’ve seen someone describe the volume of his or her headache. Though I can attribute this to Excedrin’s popular, “I’ve got…
RAISHAD GLOVER AND EMILY EASTRIDGE @ HOWARD YEZERSKI
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND The best way to critique the absurd is with the absurd; the more flamboyant the critique, usually, the more potent the message.CoachTV, the Raishad Glover and Emily…
BRI/AIR PROFILE: VéRONIQUE D’ENTREMONT
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND What does it mean and why did you make it? What is the origin of this piece? Have you ever been to an artist talk and, instead…
SIGGRAPH2006 EXHIBITION
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND I was informed that there are two types of people who go to the annual (this year being the 33rd) SIGGRAPH conference, technology people (the ones who…
AIR ARTIST KELLY SHERMAN
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND When Kelly Sherman began her residency at the Berwick Research Institute’s Artist in Research (AIR) program, she had set out to create a project based on seating…