By SAM MCKINNISS In Real Art Ways’ front room gallery, Zak Ove’s group of photographs entitled Blue Devils (from the Transfigura series) greets viewers with a startling view of Trinidad Carnival. Large-scale photographs show men and women in gruesome masquerade…
By JUDY KERMIS BLOTNICK “Painting broke my heart…. but it also saved my life,” said Gerry Bergstein at his gallery talk on December 5th. A romantic and a realist, an avid fan of contemporary culture and a man whose visual…
By STEPHEN V. KOBASA Comedy refuses mortality. That is Buster Keaton’s lesson, and why, I think, he is a greater artist than Charlie Chaplin. There is something too elaborately contrived about all of Chaplin’s encounters with disaster; he simpers too…
By MICAH MALONE & MATTHEW NASH While editing the article “How To Start And Run An Alternative Gallery Space” by Big RED publisher Matthew Nash in issue #118, editor Micah Malone proposed: I would love a piece that talks more…
By ALISE UPITIS & MEG ROTZEL Performa, the New York-based performance art biennale, had its third iteration in November. Performa’s founding director and curator is RoseLee Goldberg, who in 1979 published the first, now seminal, history of performance art. This…
Last evening at MassArt’s Pozen Center, about 200 people gathered for “Spark: A Gala Celebration”. The event was created for three reasons, each worth a party in their own right. The big news of the evening was that the Axiom…
By MATTHEW NASH Of all the things I find most difficult as an artist, it is the problem of turning one’s own personal experience and ideas into something that others can understand that seems to be the most universal. Many…
By JAMES A. NADEAU It seems fitting that Tobias Putrih and MOS (an architectural collective) have their recent piece Without Out installed at MIT. If for no other reason that it’s aesthetic certainly reflects a couple of buildings not only…
By AARON HOWLAND You’re walking through the city at 3 AM. It’s pitch black; it’s silent; you’re alone on the streets. You turn a corner and see a car in flames. Bodies burn before your eyes; the metal hull of…
By ZACHARY DELUCA The Comfort of Strangers Described by its creator as a “roving supper,” Wink hardly sounds like a work of art. The premise and practice of Wink is deceptively simple: as a private chef, he cooks a multi-course…
By JAMES A. NADEAU This Tuesday marks the twentieth anniversary of Day Without Art. Begun on December 1st, 1989, the Day Without Art (now known as Day With(Out) Art) was created to spread awareness of the destructive power of AIDS,…
By BIG RED Saturday November 14th, 2009 Candid photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at GALLERY for the opening of OATH: New work From Clark Filio. Chorus Gallery “Oath” is on view until December 11th. Photos by James Manning.…
By BIG RED Candid photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at Goethe Institute for the opening of Moments in Time 1989/1990. Curated by Rainer Rother, Artistic Director, Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum for Film and Television, Berlin. The exhibit features…
By JAMES A. NADEAU So I have been back in the U.S. for a couple of weeks now, hoping to find time to process and really think about my journey. But as we all know, life goes on. And if…
By BIG RED Friday, October 2nd, 2009 Candid photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at Laconia Gallery for the opening of “Making Connections: Contemporary Cuban Printmakers” presented by Boston Printmakers. Laconia Gallery Boston Printmakers “Making Connections: Contemporary Cuban Printmakers”…
By BIG RED Thursday, November 12th 2009 Candid photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at The Photographic Resource Center at Boston University for the opening of “The Leopold Godowsky Jr. Color Photography Awards,” which honor the co-inventor of Kodachrome…
By BIG RED Friday, October 16th 2009 Candid photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at The New England School of Art and Design at Suffolk University for the opening of “Construction,” curated by James Hull. New England School of…
By STEVE AISHMAN Somewhere along the way, rules got a bad name. People began to associate rules with authority and oppression of freedom. Rules are now seen as antiquated obstacles to individualism and progress. Artists in particular decided that following…
By JAMES A. NADEAU I have spent the last two issues discussing the work that I viewed in Beijing, so I figured it was time to talk a little bit about my trip to Seoul. A lot of the work…
By MICAH J. MALONE Sports and art rarely coincide. Only a handful of contemporary artists come to mind that have utilized sports and athletes as a primary subject. Paul Pfeiffer’s wonderfully jarring videos of basketball star Larry Johnson in perpetual…