On October 22, 1962 in his home in southern France, an aging 81-year old Pablo Picasso watched then U.S. President John F. Kennedy announce the discovery of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba capable of reaching American soil. He, like most…
From left to right: Susan Metrican, Juan Amaya, 2012. Dear everyone, Please meet Juan Amaya, graphic designer turned visual artist. His images seem at first a familiar mash-up of YouTube vernacular and Photoshop gaggery, but a subject begins to emerge…
Unless you’ve been living under a rock these past 9 months, you know what’s going down tomorrow. This is Big Red & Shiny’s Get Out the Vote post! First of all, here are two links to where to vote in…
Why does Boston produce such an immense number of young artists and yet retain so few of them? This is the question that begins the call for work for yBos 1 at UMB’s Harbor Gallery, which calls itself “The first…
It’s a refrain we all hear time and again: Boston’s strength lies in its schools. Whether you believe it or not, it cannot be denied that there is some fantastic contemporary art coming out of several dynamic & respected MFA…
The Boston Public Library has been organizing some very exciting events for years, but none more exciting than Building Boston—a citywide celebration of Boston’s public spaces. According to the BPL Building Boston website, this celebration “explores the stories behind the…
This time last week, I sat in a pew at Montserrat’s second annual academic symposium, Agents of Change: Art as Activism. It’s difficult to imagine a more New England venue for staging a day-long event on engaged art than a…
Today marks our one month since our Kickstarter was successfully funded! Here is a behind the scenes time lapse video of the Big Red & Shiny’s relaunch party, the Big Red Shindig. Shot and edited by James Manning: www.artvigor.org Mills…
“Contemporary approaches to photography are much different than what was happening in Harold’s world. Harold wasn’t working in series like many contemporary artists do now. He was photographing what captured his attention.” With over five decades of dedication and thousands…
Fifty random points all connected by straight lines: those were the original instructions for Sol Lewitt’s Wall Drawing #118 installed at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in 1971. It has been re-created and it is the centerpiece…
The Financial District probably isn’t your primary gallery-hopping destination, but next time you’re near South Station, be sure to check out the Open Door Gallery. Located in a first floor space at 89 South Street (corner of Essex), it’s the…
I’ve been very impressed by the visuals contained in hip hop videos coming out of Los Angeles. It’s not just one person, or one label– it seems to be all the artists from LA have overpoweringly clearheaded visual adaptations for…
By The Editors October 30, 2012 We would like to take a brief moment to thank this month’s sponsors. These are the organizations and companies that keep us publishing, so be sure to check them out! Featured Advertisers…
Matching Mole, Signed Curtain, Matching Mole, 3:06, 1972 The Living on One Side, The Departed on the Other, Acrylic on Canvas, 44″x116″ (Diptych), 2012 Study at MFA with Onlookers, Acrylic on Canvas, 20″x16″, 2011
The weekend has been full of panel talks beginning Friday with Montserrat College of Art’s symposium on art and activism, which was followed Saturday by our very own BIG RED FORUM at MIT’s List Center, and continued on Sunday at…
Panel discussion summary and bios as PDF What a night. As our former editor-in-chief Matthew Gamber put it: Big Red Forum has now become “Big Red Town Hall.” The half hour that was devoted to audience response after the…
If you’ve seen footage of the audience at The Ed Sullivan Show when the Beatles appeared, screaming the joy that possessed them body and soul, you’ll have a fair grasp of my state of mind at seeing poet Jane Hirshfield…
The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC is set to auction artifacts from the Benjamin Warder House designed by 19th century Boston architect Henry Hobson Richardson. Rumors of the possible auction were circulating throughout various preservation and architectural history…
Without realizing it, I think my first idea to paint stripes inside a box were a way to break out of my habit of painting still lifes with black backgrounds. Introducing white stripes to a black void, as ridiculous as…
Wright Next Door: New Hampshire Part One Behind a woodland canopy of yew and birch and hemlock on an unassuming street in the hillside city of Manchester, New Hampshire lays a rare and hidden treasure that awaits your eminent arrival;…