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By STEVE AISHMAN Every summer, Big RED & Shiny offers our Summer Movie Extravaganza! Artists and critics take on Hollywood blockbuster films and it is always fun. This year, as a “teaser” for our upcoming Summer Movie issue, BR&S regulars…
By RICKY TUCKER Childhood, unless you’re in the middle of it, is viewed from a voyeuristic vantage point where everyone’s sporting an “I Survived the Mountain” t-shirt. Though our oldest form, childhood’s seen as simply the obvious and mandatory route…
By STEPHEN V. KOBASA When asked his opinion of Western civilization, Gandhi famously replied that he thought it would be a good idea. Peter Waite¹s sculptures are evidence of it being a bad one. These are miniatures of the frenzy…
By BIG RED Thursday, June 24th, 2010 Candid photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at Suffolk University Art Gallery at The New England School of Art and Design for the opening of On The Road, “a group exhibition of…
By BIG RED Saturday, June 19th, 2010. Candid photos from a Big RED night on-the-town for the inaugural opening at at RUGG Residency for Audrey M. Hope’s installation Grottensaal Living Wall. “Grottensaal Living Wall” was created and on view at…
By STEVE AISHMAN Confessions of an Art Nerd Throughout my life I have been called a nerd. This has always been fine for me because I am a nerd. In fact I am multiple types of nerd. To make things…
By MICAH J. MALONE In most biographical accounts of the late Al Taylor his identification and origin as a painter, as opposed to a sculptor, is almost always noted. Also, and more pertinent to my interests, was his trip to…
By KURT COLE EIDSVIG What could be left to say about Claude Monet? The iconic Impressionist has been the subject of major shows dotting the globe for each of the past ten-plus years, many times simultaneously. There are notepads, calendars,…
By JOHN PYPER The New England Conservatory and the Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice (SICPP) demonstrated their commitment to new music by devoting an evening at Jordan Hall to 20th century German composers. Steffen Schleiermacher, a guest artist for…
By JAMES NADEAU So it is finally upon us: the reality show about artists and the art world brought to us by the Bravo Network and Sara Jessica Parker. I am having a hard time reconciling my disdain for Work…
By BIG RED Friday, June 14th, 2010 Candid photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at the galleries of SoWa for the First Friday openings. Gallery Kayafas Steven Zevitas Gallery/OSP Laconia Gallery
By JESS T. DUGAN A few weeks ago, I saw the newly-released documentary Play in the Gray at the Brattle Theatre as part of the Boston LGBT Film Festival. First-time filmmaker Kaitlin Meelia spent several years filming the members of…
By BIG RED May 13th, 2010 Photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at various galleries in 101 Front Street Galleries, in Brooklyn, NY during the New York Photo Festival, May 12-16, 2010: Kris Graves Projects , Umbrage Editions, Klompching…
By STEVE AISHMAN Some texts I or my friends have received during or after art openings. In no particular order, here’s the rundown: 1) This work is so bad. This wine is so bad. So many reasons to puke tonight.…
By RICKY TUCKER Panel 1 Though reclining, he’s on his toes. He strikes us as a fit and formidable young man daring the viewer from across the way. Why are the young often those who’ve let their hair go long?…
By JIM MANNING Thursday, April 29th, 2010 Candid photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at Judi Rotenberg Gallery for the opening of Man Up: Jesse Burke, El C. Leonardo, Steve Locke and Rune Olsen. Judi Rotenberg Gallery Man…
Kim Bernard, Christopher Carroll, Olivia Glascock, Wilson Harding Lawrence, Laurel McMechan, Carrie Strine, Elizabeth Thach, Kevin Thrasher and Gregory Vershbow.
By BIG RED Sunday, May 2, 2010 Photos from a Big RED on-the-town featuring work on display during Somerville Open Studios at Nave Gallery and Muskat Studios. This was also the closing day for The Beast in Me—Johnny Cash: Art…
By STEVE AISHMAN The Budget Biennial JP Morgan is where Jesus saves. Sometimes I buy RH Quaytman’s work and the rest of the Whitney. It’s not for sale. No sound to hear in this grab ass scene. Gary’s so broke…