Wherein the reader learns of their part in this story. When the practical reality of running a Journal-Blog set in, the question of how to replenish our coffers came up. We turned to Kickstarter because its model offers a lovely…
By Clint Baclawski September 04, 2012 Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events/screenings/receptions/performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see this week: • Events Friday 7 September The fall’s first First Friday. Galleries…
In 2003, artists Matthew Nash and C. Sean Horton began piecing together the concept for web-based publication that would eventually become Big Red & Shiny. It would be a forum for criticism and discussion on contemporary art in Boston that…
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you’ve heard of the campaign to save the “old” Prentice Women’s Hospital in Chicago. The movement to save from demolition one of modernism’s boldest, most unusual and least understood concrete buildings gains momentum…
According to John Ochsendorf author of Guastavino Vaulting: The Art of Structural Tile, “Rafael Guastavino was one of the greatest American architects you’ve never heard of. (1)” An immigrant from Spain, Rafael Guastavino Sr. arrived to America in 1881 with…
In an effort to further expand access to their collections, the Museum of Fine Arts announced that it will launch a new Membership Program directed at New Hampshire students. The initiative, which begins this semester, provides free admission to all…
If you’ve been away a lot this summer and have yet to see Os Gemeos’ public artwork in Dewey Square, head down there during these last halcyon days of summer. While you’re enjoying a grassy pause between the skyscrapers, have…
Press PLAY before reading: “When you’re done crying about how much everything sucks, you can find the rest of us at Picó Picante.” On a recent sunny Saturday afternoon, Maggie Cavallo’s public entreaty to get over and on with it…
New York-based artist Derrick Adams sat down with art historian Nuit Banai to discuss his current show at Mills Gallery, The World According to Derrick: Performative Objects in Formation. Derrick Adams works in a wide range of media, including performance,…
By MATTHEW GAMBER It was an interesting experiment: A rotating volunteer staff of one publisher, a few editors, and dozens of contributors (many whom never met in person) collaborate on a site devoted to topics related to local visual art.…
Summer 2010 From July 7 to July 23, 2010, Jennifer Schmidt spent a two and a half weeks in Alaska at the Homestead Artist Residency. Hosted by Chuck Chaney, she lived and worked amongst fellow Homesteaders: Faith Johnson, Lauren Payne,Amy…
By JENNIFER SCHMIDT CLICK FOR IMAGES FROM THE HOMESTEAD AK This July, I had the opportunity to travel to Alaska and spend some time at the Homestead AK, a residency for artists interested in experiential art making, exploration of…
By JUDY KERMIS BLOTNICK Sitting on a beach in Provincetown, on a Saturday morning following the traditional Friday evening “gallery stroll” that the locals call “gallery creep,” I try to verbalize impressions, visions that I found engaging. I pull together…
By BIG RED Friday August 13th, 2010 Candid photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at THE FOURTH WALL PROJECT for the opening of Boston Related Featuring Works by: Antoniadis and Stone, Raul Gonzalez, Jessica Gath, Alone, Jason Reppert, Nicole…
By MATTHEW NASH On February 15 of 2004, Big RED & Shiny launched our first issue. On August 16 of 2010, we launch our last. I have been doing BR&S for a long time. I’ve written every line of code…
By JANE HUDSON First, let’s say thanks to Matt Nash, Matt Gamber, Micah Malone, James Nadeau, Steve Aishman, Tom Marquet and all the other contributors for the largess that has been Big Red. I knew all these folks when they…
By THOMAS MARQUET #61: What ever happened to “The White Cube”? Thomas Marquet is a cartoonist, sculptor, and critic, based in Brooklyn. Find more of his work online at his website,thomasmarquet.com.
By JULIE NOVAKOFF Since my recent relocation from Boston to Los Angeles, I have taken advantage of the blossoming cultural life of this city. I’ve visited numerous galleries and exceptional museums such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art…
By JIM MANNING If you owned a gallery, showed or performed your art, or if you just happened to go to an exhibit opening in the Boston / Cambridge area during the past six years then odds are pretty good…
By JAMES A. NADEAU June 22nd, 2010 Candid photos from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston ‘Topping Out’ ceremony on June 22nd held to celebrate of the completion of the steel structure for the new extension at the Isabella…