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By BR&SOctober 22, 2012 0

Bring your Voice to the BIG RED FORUM: Boston has an arts community, but how do we engage other communities?

Carrying its mission into the public forum, Big Red & Shiny will host a discussion on art & community moderated by Katherine French, Director of the Danforth Museum. Community art specifically refers to art that takes place within a community…

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By Bonnie BOctober 22, 2012 0

Live and On Film: The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Sam Green and indie rock legends Yo La Tengo brought their “live documentary” on the life and work of Buckminster Fuller to Boston for two performances at the ICA on Saturday, October 20. Similar to Green’s earlier Utopia…

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By Susan MetricanOctober 20, 2012 0

Inside Out: Coloured Objects

Goethe’s Theory of Colours is the book that I’m toting around in the Profondo Yellow video. I got a little obsessed with it a few years ago. It’s laid out by sections, and within each section are very brief and…

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By Stephanie CardonOctober 19, 2012 0

Confronting Inequity: What I took away from the Creative Time Summit

Last Friday, along with 500 others, I settled in for 10 hours of non-stop presentations and dialogue at Creative Time’s annual summit. It was my first time attending and was worth every minute of the bumpy Boltbus roundtrip. Last year,…

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By Samuel RowlettOctober 18, 2012 0

The Pioneers, The Victory, The Spoils

From the outside, the Victory Theatre looks pretty much like any of the other boarded up buildings in Holyoke. As one of America’s first planned cities and the former paper capital of the world, Holyoke has no shortage of buildings…

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By Anulfo BaezOctober 17, 2012 0

Art Thefts Through the Years: The New England Edition

On Tuesday October 16, 2012 seven paintings from the Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam, Netherlands were stolen in the early hours of the morning. The stolen paintings are by Picasso, Monet, Matisse and Lucian Freud among others. The works which were…

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By Matthew KuhlmanOctober 17, 2012 0

20 Foot Santa Juried Exhibition at 17 Cox

Last fall Lucas Spivey slammed on his brakes along an empty stretch of Route 16 in New Hampshire, his attention grabbed by a modern makeshift ‘wanted’ poster. “$1,000 REWARD for the Arrest & Conviction AND Return of The 20 foot…

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By Matthew NashOctober 15, 2012 0

New & Improved Comments!

By Matthew Nash October 15, 2012 This is just a quick housekeeping note to announce that Big Red & Shiny has upgraded our comment system to LiveFyre. We hope this will offer you a better and more conversational experience…

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By Lola Arellano-WeddletonOctober 15, 2012 0

Performance and Participation at the Polish History Museum

Sitting on my desk is a small enamelware cup that I purchased in the gift shop at the new Schindler Factory branch of the Museum of the History of Krakow in Poland. The cup is blue, with a black rim…

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By Aaron WilletteOctober 15, 2012 0

An Appropriation of Means: The Advent of Installation as a Critical Tool of Architecture

The idea that there is a privileged relationship between the relatively young medium of installation art and the ancient practice of architecture is far from revolutionary. For decades artists and architects have explored shared interests through the medium of installation;…

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By Stephen V. KobasaOctober 15, 2012 0

Painting with Ashes

Charcoal is made by burning, so an artist might use slivers of charred ruins to draw with. In the midst of all the color, it is the prominence of this dark medium from out of the flames that resonates most…

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By Michael PepiOctober 15, 2012 0

Analia Saban at Tanya Bonakdar

In historicizing the minimalist canvas, critics have pointed to some form of the merger between the subject of a painting and the object used to support it—for a few this “maddening” notion was the “subjectile,” that physical part of art…

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By Ben StreetOctober 15, 2012 0

Bad Language

Just as it’s expected that rock bands rail against the machinations of the music industry, and indie filmmakers lament the hollowness of Hollywood, it’s a condition of those working in or with art that the ‘art world’ be berated as…

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By Brian SirmanOctober 15, 2012 0

Reviled Architecture: The Buildings We Love to Hate

For the past two years, I have taught a course on Reviled Architecture at Boston University. The class explored a variety of buildings that frequently incite people’s ire, and my students found no lack of published sources on the subject.…

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By James ManningOctober 15, 2012 0

Interview: George Fifield

George Fifield is a media arts curator, writer, teacher and artist. He is the founder and director of Boston Cyberarts Inc., a nonprofit arts organization, which from 1999 through 2011 produced the Boston Cyberarts Festival. Big Red & Shiny…

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By Susan MetricanOctober 14, 2012 0

Inside Out: Sourcery

Here are some of my recent source images. Sometimes it’s enough to scroll through them, but lately I like being able to see them laid out in a little grid. Previously I hadn’t made the connection between eyeball and hole…

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By BR&SOctober 14, 2012 0

Preview: Performance & Participation at the Polish History Museum

By The Editors October 14, 2012 The museum has a ton of roles to play. First, is the protective role, collecting, preserving, and identifying what is important to our culture, our aesthetics, or any other divisions you can…

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By BR&SOctober 13, 2012 0

Preview: Analia Saban

L.A. based Argentinian artist Analia Saban’s show at Tanya Bonakdar is teeming with associations for me. Her work is formally advanced and ripe with historical connotations, but the thing that draws me in most is her self-assured gestures. Her work…

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By Sarah SulistioOctober 12, 2012 0

Ai Weiwei: According to What? Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Park

By Sarah Sulistio October 12, 2012 Recognized by ArtReview as the art world’s “Most Powerful Figure” in 2011, Ai Weiwei is no stranger to the art world. Best-known for his collaboration with Herzog & de Meuron on the design…

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By BR&SOctober 12, 2012 0

2012 Rappaport Prize: Suara Welitoff

By The Editors October 12, 2012 Big Red & Shiny would like to congratulate Suara Welitoff on the news that she has been awarded this year’s Rappaport Prize by the deCordova! The Rappaport Prize is awarded annually to…

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