By BIG RED Friday, October 30, 2009 Part of MASSART Eventworks for Fall 2009. From the MASSART website: The Iron Pour has a strong history at Massachusetts College of Art, beginning as a fundraiser for the Metals Department, it has…
By STEVE AISHMAN Information has evolved into a new species of garbage. The entire concept of someone who is “informed” has changed and now fragmentary 140 character lines of text pass as communication. It is not that this new breed…
By MICAH J. MALONE I’ve hesitated to comment on the following story, if only because it is still being written. However, the fascinating conundrum that faces Chris Burden and Gagosian Gallery is far too rich to pass up. As was…
By JAMES NADEAU In addition to the massive gallery hopping in I did in the 798 District I also spent some time in the relatively new gallery area of Caochangdi. This is an old neighborhood farther out of the city…
By ERIK GULLARD Alec Soth’s exploration of Bogota stemmed originally from the adoption of his baby girl. The girl’s biological mother made a book full of letters, pictures, and perms and gave it to Soth and his wife. Upon receiving…
By STEPHEN V. KOBASA In Provincetown, there is a great deal of what no longer is. Who sits in the poet Stanley Kunitz’s garden now, or writes in Norman Mailer’s house? And even in October, the hulking tourist buses angle…
With the next round of elections approaching, there has been a lot of talk in Boston about growing the creative economy and fostering new arts spaces in the city. At the same time, there are a large number of college…
Last night I had the opportunity to meet Tomás Gonzalez, who is running for Boston City Councillor At-Large. Gonzalez is running on a platform that promotes a stronger creative economy, including the expansion of support for spaces in underdeveloped neighborhoods…
By BIG RED October 6, 2009 Tuesday, October 6, 2009 was the last day of Mobius Artists Group member Joanne Rice’s The Human Cost of War, a two-year durational performance. Rice has gone to the Trinity Church grounds in Copley…
By STEVE AISHMAN This is a news report and criticism: On Sept. 29, BoingBoing blogger Xeni wrote a criticism of an advertisement by Ralph Lauren, stating,”Dude, her head’s bigger than her pelvis.” Ralph Lauren’s law firm has now threatened to…
By J.B. RAETZKE The three dimensional paintings Donald Morgan produces are isolated vignettes appropriated from the larger sphere of the local landscape. Showing this work in Ditch Projects, an artist run project space in the midst of a defunct lumber…
The Berwick Research Institute is no stranger to change, and this past week they announced another major transition: the end of their Artist In Research (AIR) program. This announcement comes on the heels of a number of changes at the…
By SANDRINE SCHAEFER As Americans, we live with the luxury of ignorance. Some take pride in educating themselves on war, others ignore it, but unlike the citizens of Iraq or Afghanistan who are immersed in the daily consequences of war,…
By THEODORE BALE It was a tripartite collaboration that happened only once: in 1979 choreographer Lucinda Childs, composer Philip Glass, and artist Sol LeWitt came together to create the signature performance work of the minimal period, DANCE. Of course, with…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Last April I went to an art exhibit at Brown University’s Nightingale-Brown House. The building houses the John Nicholas Brown Center’s masters degree program in Public Humanities, and though a federally-qualified historic landmark, seemed like a good…
By BIG RED Thursday September 24th 2009 A Big Red Night On The Town at the opening of “Eat The Art”. Featuring the work of : Alice Abrams, Laraine Armenti, Mara Aspinall, June August, Martha Bedrosian, Alex Campbell, Catherine Davis,…
By BIG RED The artist, muralist, children’s book auther and former graffiti writer Caleb Neelon at work on his “Imagination Wall” in the lobby of Children’s Hospital, Boston. Neelon was at work 9 to 5, Monday though Friday, 21 September…
By BIG RED Friday October 2nd 2009 A Big Red Night On The Town at the First Friday Openings in Boston’s South End (SOWA) All images by James Manning. James Manning is a Boston based independent curator, artist and film…
By STEVE AISHMAN 07There once was an artist from Boston Who searched all the way to Austin “Where is the art?” He said with a fart “If this country had balls, we have lost them!” -A limerick by Steve Aishman…
By MICAH J. MALONE What does it mean to sell something that does not have a definitive form? In my exploration of this question, I will focus on the generation that has led to many misconceptions about the commodity status…