Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery Events/Screenings/Exhibitions/Performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see this week: • Events Tuesday 18 September PRC, Boston Henry Horenstein: Honky Tonk BU Kenmore Classroom Building, Room 101, 565…
Mariana Cánepa Luna and Max Andrews are the team of two behind Latitudes, a Barcelona-based globally-active ‘Curatorial Office’. Why talk about them here and now? Latitudes’ current #OpenCurating project consists of a series of interviews with publishers, developers, artists and…
Along with publishing our blog posts, conversing over the social media, and setting up the party at the BCA and the talks at MIT, it feels like we’ve been constantly hitting refresh on the kickstarter since we emerged from our…
A column about the Camera Arts — photography, video, film, etc. — ought to begin directly with some form of it. “What is the critical concern of photographic practice today? What is your vision in regards to the future discourse?”…
Do you like typography, architecture and vintage signs? Do you find yourself wishing there was a way to document and archive unique type and signage from all over the world? There’s an app for that and it’s called Fontly. Fontly…
Every month a group of young professionals interested in the arts plays a charitable drinking game called the Punch Bowl Fund. The rules: donate $5 (cash) to the fund and you’ll get a drink ticket for a glass of punch…
Just 48 hours after Our Daily Red published a post about Go Brooklyn’s borough-wide Open Studios, and the app developed to help visitors find their way around the maze, we learned about New Art Love, a Boston-based venture that is…
Via Concientious, I came across an article in BagNews by Michael Shaw about James Nachtwey’s famous photos from New York on 9/11. The emphasis of the article is on the change in color correction between the 2001 and 2011 versions,…
Lincoln Arts Project (LAP) seeks to play a more prominent role in the Waltham art scene by renting out affordable studio spaces to young and emerging artists or small creative businesses. Initially established as a temporary gallery space, LAP is…
Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery Events/Screenings/Exhibitions/Performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see this week: • Events Tuesday 11 September Café Fixe, Brookline Non-Event presents Kevin Micka + Mark Pearson Duo Local multi-instrumentalists/instrument designers…
Anyone making their way to the First Friday openings this weekend (and braving the surprise torrential rain) could not miss the Guerrilla Girls’ mobile billboard parked on Harrison Ave. The image showed a nude woman wearing a gorilla mask with…
The weekend following Go Brooklyn Art’s borough-wide Open Studios event, artists in Boston’s South End studios unbolt their doors for the public. Saturday 15 & Sunday 16 September, from 11am to 6pm, the art-curious are welcome to stroll up and…
Sure, the Greater Boston area is known for world-class museums and art galleries. But it is also home to over 100 colleges and universities, many of which offer exceptional arts programming. September is, of course, when students return for classes…
There have been a number of changes to Big Red & Shiny for our re-launch, and I’m sure you’ve noticed that one of the biggest is that we are now partnering with Nectar Ads to fund our endeavor. We at…
Wow, it has been quite a week! As I’m sure you’ve noticed (because you are reading this) Big Red & Shiny is back. We have a new team, a new look and a renewed focus on art in Boston. I…
Tonight marks the first set of exhibition openings of the academic season and as we already reported, the ICA and SOWA are primed to make this a big one by dubbing it : First Friday: Back to School. The SOWA…
After a nearly three-year run, NK Gallery, one of the SOWA District’s younger art galleries, will celebrate its final show and close its doors. Established in 2010, Kathy Halamka and Natacha Sochat opened the gallery as patrons of contemporary artists,…
Can you believe that it’s already #FirstFriday? Tonight, the SOWA District art galleries (450 Harrison Street) will be open with new and continuing shows from 5:30pm-8pm. The SOWA galleries are, as always, FREE and open to the public of all…
Just months after trying their hand at the over decade-long tradition, the ICA Boston has joined forces with the SOWA district galleries to throw what they’re calling a “citywide First Friday”. And as a subtle reminder that none of us…
Greetings everyone! So this is the new BR&S and we couldn’t be more excited to be back! Our relaunch has been a long journey of invisible labor that started around Feb of 2012, but it was completely worth it. With…