By STEVE AISHMAN “Art writing that attempts not to judge, and yet presents itself as criticism, is one of the fascinating paradoxes of the second half of the twentieth century.” – James Elkins In 1970, Edmund Burke Feldman wrote a…
By MATTHEW GAMBER Since 2004, this pink website has been your independent, upstart source for news, reviews, and dialogue on contemporary work. We’ve published 125 issues, covered hundreds of exhibitions, and offered artists and patrons insight into the minds of…
By THOMAS MARQUET #55: What do artists talk about during a recession? Thomas Marquet is a cartoonist, sculptor, and critic, based in Brooklyn.
By RICKY TUCKER Running a scenic course under the overpass of cross-dressing, “Virtuoso Illusion,” hits all the usual but gleaming notes typical to the theme: The vibrantly melancholic Sedgwykean Hero(ine), tales of excess (both cautionary and leading), the refracted illuminations…
OUR NEW LISTINGS: EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS, CALLS FOR WORK, CLASSES & WORKSHOPS by BIG RED OUR NEW LOOK: FINDING YOUR WAY AROUND by BIG RED It’s our birthday and we’ve had our fill of cake, presents and cocktails.…
By BIG RED After six years online, we’ve learned a lot about how to help you find all of the great stuff we have on Big RED & Shiny. Sure, we’ve had re-designs before, but none this comprehensive. So here’s…
By BIG RED One of the most active parts of Big RED & Shiny has always been our Listings section, where galleries, curators and other organizations post their latest announcements to let you know what’s going on. The new Big…
By JUDY KERMIS BLOTNICK Brian Knep, 41, a Boston media artist, paints with his computer. He has perfected his technology to interact with the viewer, which has brought him an impressive amount of critical success since 2004. Just this month…
By SHANE GODFREY There has been a large surge of DIY (do it yourself) projects thanks to the current recession, lack of money and the internet. With the rise in popularity of sites like Lifehacker and Design Sponge, DIY projects…
By JULIE NOVAKOFF Over the past four decades, Eli and Edythe Broad, noted Los Angeles philanthropists and art collectors, have amassed one of the largest collections of postwar and contemporary art in the world. Their two collections, The Eli and…
By ANNIE GOTTLIEB Back in the heady early days of feminism’s second wave, the movement’s theorists poured forth torrents of words about the male monopoly on public power — economic, political, religious, cultural. If you had grown up in a…
The artist John Osorio Buck is organizing people to make stoves. In his Stove Lab: A Collaborative Studio project, Buck wants to encourage new approaches to potential responses to emergency situations (e.g. life in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, which was…
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston has announced nine artists as finalists for the 2010 James and Audrey Foster Prize. The honorees for the the museum’s biennial award and exhibition for Boston-area artists are Robert de St. Phalle, Eirik Johnson,…
By BIG RED January 22, 2009 Candid photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at GALLERY for the lecture and opening of Domesticated: Modern Dioramas of Our New Natural History, Photographs by Amy Stein, at the Harvard Museum on Natural…
By MICAH J. MALONE For the past few columns I have focused on artists who began their careers – and built reputations – with work marked by a ruthless economy of means. Many artists who start with low cost materials…
By STEVE AISHMAN Artists and giving to charitable causes seem to go well together. The biennial ARTcetera art auction is a great example where Boston’s visual arts community has donated artwork and time to support the AIDS Action Committee since…
By JAMES A. NADEAU The recent shifting in the curatorial make up of Boston has caused me to stop and reflect upon just what these institutions actually mean to us. With curators moving from one museum to another or an…
Call (617) 533-1103 or (617) 480-2994 if you have a Warhol to sell! But if you call one of those numbers, each of which has appeared on signs created by artist ‘Hargo,’ you’ll just get a satisfied Hargo. Shortly after…
By BIG RED Saturday, December 12th, 2009 Candid photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at The New England School of Art and Design for the opening of Resa Blatman’s solo exhibition. New England School of Art and Design at…
