By STEVE AISHMAN Every hero becomes a bore at last. — Emerson I have never been able to throw. And I mean anything. I can’t throw a baseball, tennis ball, Frisbee, whatever. Don’t ask me to toss you a pen…
By BIG RED CHECK THIS OUT. When was this made? Is this a phallus made from the lights of tailgaters? Imagine if all the pictures on the web were corrupted, but this one managed to survive, along with the entire…
By THOMAS MARQUET #57: The requisite Whitney Biennial strip, but different this time. Thomas Marquet is a cartoonist, sculptor, and critic, based in Brooklyn.
By NISHA MAXWELL Joshua Deaner’s a town without pigeons. confronts the capitalist, linear escapism that the Western psyche cultivates. Deaner claims to look for moments when landscapes reflect the inner working of the psyche. “ He does exactly that with…
By LIZ HALL Last week, I had the wonderful good fortune of attending two lectures about two different artists who dance with science. On Monday, February 22nd, the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology kicked off its spring lecture…
My idea is to try to eat local for 30 days, or perhaps 60 (if Tehching Hsieh can go a whole year). The point is to attempt an experiment in living the beliefs I have been advocating. Beyond advocacy I…
By BIG RED January 29, 2010 Photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at fivesevendelle project space for the opening of “Dude, where’s my apocalypse?”, featuring Boston artists Jack W. Schneider, Alexander DeMaria, and Todd White. DUDE, WHERE’S MY…
By BIG RED Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 Candid photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at the Davis Museum and Cultural Centerfor the opening of “Something Like Fireworks,” an installation by Stephen Vitiello. Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley…
By STEVE AISHMAN So I’m looking at Titian’s Venus and the Lute Player when I overhear a discussion being led by a teacher and some students: Teacher: “What do you think this painting is about?” Student A: “It seems to…
By THOMAS MARQUET #56: New Year! New attitude! Thomas Marquet is a cartoonist, sculptor, and critic, based in Brooklyn.
By RIVER CORTES The 18th annual Outsider Art Fair took place this year from February 5-7 in Manhattan. For the second consecutive year, it was held at 7 West 34th Street, in the shadow of the Empire State Building. Inside,…
By KAREN S. FEGLEY Although World War II ended 65 years ago and its slipstream, the Cold War, began to grind to a halt around 1985, the world remains an unquiet place. Since the Cold War, we have witnessed bloody…
By STEPHEN V. KOBASA War’s dogs are out and about. We should know this. A thousand Americans dead in Afghanistan, and the number of slaughtered civilians only an underestimated approximation. But we are not keen to have such news. In…
By MICAH J. MALONE Two recently opened shows in Portland, Oregon have positioned traditional and craft skills as a series of political acts: gestures that challenge convention and seek to re-affirm new roles within the discourse of art. While Timothy…
By JUDY KERMIS BLOTNICK Since last fall Toyota has recalled more than 8 million vehicles, 6 million of which were in the U.S. alone. Among the problems listed were accelerator pedals that got stuck, making it very difficult to stop…
By BIG RED Friday January 29th, 2010 Photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at Fort Point Arts Community Gallery for the opening ofInteractivity : Interpassivity, featuring work by Kristen Mills and Jessica Hyatt. Fort Point Arts Community Gallery Interactivity…
By BIG RED Thursday January 21st 2010 Photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at The DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park for the opening of The 2010 DeCordova Biennial. Featuring the work of: Greta Bank, Ross Cisneros, Georgie Friedman, Paul…
By BIG RED Thursday February 11th, 2009 Photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at The AIB Gallery at University Hall, Cambridge for the opening of FIVE FROM AROUND, featuring Rama Rejman, Elaine Spatz-Rabinowitz and Tabitha Vevers Art Institute of…
By BIG RED February 3rd, 2010 Photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at MIT List Visual Arts Center for the prereception/reception of Virtuoso Illusion: Cross-Dressing and the New Media Avant-Garde MIT List Visual Arts Center “Virtuoso Illusion: Cross-Dressing and…
