A CONVERSATION WITH C. SEAN HORTON
By MICAH J. MALONE Sean Horton has always had a knack for initiating projects. At one time or another, Sean has been integral to the founding of a record label,…
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Micah J. Malone
Micah J. Malone has been with Big RED & Shiny since the beginning, and is an executive editor.
CHRISTOPH BüCHEL & MASS MOCA
By MICAH J. MALONE I’m going to be sick to my stomach. Christoph Büchel and Mass MoCA are still at it, with no ideal or agreeable solution in sight. As…
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
By MICAH J. MALONE Print this article It is fair time again. On the heels of The Armory show, Scope New York and a host of others, the art world…
THE NEW DENVER ART MUSEUM
By MICAH J. MALONE The Frederic C. Hamilton building at the Denver Art Museum opened with much fanfare only a few weeks ago. Designed by World Trade Center architect Daniel…
JASON RHOADES: 1965-2006
By MICAH J. MALONE Los Angeles artist Jason Rhoades passed away early last month in what is said to be a possible heart failure. Rhoades was often described as a…
A LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
By MICAH J. MALONE Fall is among us, and for Boston that means a flood of students. It’s also the time when the best exhibition venues gear up for those…
9 EVENINGS RECONSIDERED @ THE MIT LIST
By MICAH J. MALONE 9 Evenings Reconsidered: art, theatre, and engineering is a sprawling exhibition centered around a major collaborative effort that transpired in 1966. As the catalog and the…
NINA LOLA BACHHUBER @ SPACE OTHER
By MICAH J. MALONE Perhaps the most distinct and, ironically, traditional aspects of Nina Lola Bachhuber’s show Yesterday I Ate A Lizard is its insistence on formal strategies. It is…
A LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
By MICAH J. MALONE Take a stroll through our new issue and you will be impressed with some new updates. For one, take a quick look through our LINKS section,…
ZIZEK! @ THE MFA
By MICAH J. MALONE March 8th marked the last day the MFA screened the fabulous documentary Zizek!. With an addictive speech pattern where the Slovenian thinker seems to literally breathe…
DANA SCHUTZ @ THE ROSE
By MICAH J. MALONE “In the end it comes down to what it always comes down to: vision and visionaries. All we have to do is bring it on and…
A CONVERSATION WITH LOUISE BOURQUE
By MICAH J. MALONE MM: In looking at your films, I was thinking of the concept of “in-between” and how that particular space-time is rarely represented in film. For instance,…
SPOTHUNTERS @ THE NEW ART CENTER
By MICAH J. MALONE Graffiti art has been infiltrating its way into the “official” art world for more than two decades now. With artists like Jean Michel Basquiat and Keith…
A CONVERSATION WITH MEL ZIEGLER
By MICAH J. MALONE Mel Ziegler and Kate Ericson produced some of the most important and challenging work of their generation during their ten-year collaboration between 1985-1995. The largest survey…
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
By MICAH J. MALONE As Big, Red and Shiny enters year three I am reminded of our first issue two years ago. Sean Horton was editor then and asked me…
SUZANNA SINCLAIR @ SAMSON PROJECTS
By MICAH J. MALONE The pin-up girls in Suzannah Sinclair’s drawings are not particularly interested in the viewer. With a gaze that is either inwardly focused or off into space,…
OBLIGATORY END OF YEAR LIST
By MICAH J. MALONE God, I love lists. Every year publication after publication does it’s “best of” or “Top 10” to be sure everyone knows what important events occurred during…
SUSAN JANE BELTON @ HOWARD YEZERSKI GALLERY
By MICAH J. MALONE Susan Jane Belton’s coffee cups have been annoying me for years. These serial drawings and paintings first reminded me of Warhol soup cans or Jim Dine’s…
FROM THE EDITOR
By MICAH J. MALONE Awhile back I was very intrigued with John Baldessari and his collection of film stills. What an elaborate and obsessive system he created where personal organization…
INTERVIEW WITH GAMALIEL HERRERA
By MICAH J. MALONE Because it is the only gallery I can think of that gets its name from and quotes Michel Foucault in its mission statement, I wanted to…