MARKETWATCH By Micah J. Malone Within the Blogosphere of art, I cannot count the number of times in the last week I’ve read some version of the phrase “the tanking of the economy will refocus the art world on interesting ideas…
R.H. QUAYTMAN: CHAPTER 12 : IAMB AT MIGUEL ABREU GALLERY By Alan Reid The sly objects in R. H. Quaytman’s demanding show at Miguel Abreu Gallery (Op art images screen-printed on plywood, with few exceptions) provoke retinal and philosophic feedback. The…
SEVEN DAYS IN THE ART WORLD BY SARAH THORTON By James Nadeau Noted cultural sociologist Sarah Thorton (she has written on rave culture: Club Cultures: Music, Media, and Subcultural Capital as well as for the BBC, and NPR) has turned her…
OBAMA AND THE ARTS By Matthew Nash During the heat of the election, and now in the interregnum period before the inauguration of President Obama, there has been a lot of talk about the arts and what policies the new president…
THE 2008 BOSTON ART AWARDS BALL By Big Red A few weeks ago, critic Greg Cook announced on his blog, The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research, that he was taking nominations for the best art exhibitions of 2008. His move…
THERE ARE NO NEW IDEAS. PART 2 By Christian Holland Part 2 of a 3-Part Series. Click here for Part 1. Plato believed that any idea was attainable by an individual, but only because he thought knowledge is innate. In The…
A LETTER FROM THE EDITOR By Matthew Gamber Consider the top image on the right. Admiring its pastness, one might ruminate on the good old days of fishing, when the activity was more pure. However, rather than depicting a lucky catch,…
EXINE BY PAUL MORRISON AT THE RISD MUSEUM By Jon Petro Possibly the most impressive self-actualizing apparatus of the art world today is just how it manages to reinvent itself. Year after year, idiom after idiom and dialect after dialect, artists…
ANDY WARHOL: OTHER VOICES, OTHER ROOMS @ THE WEXNER CENTER FOR THE ARTS By James A. Nadeau I have never been a huge fan of Andy Warhol (and this is my second Warhol exhibition review – go figure). His presence as…
WHO STILL USES SNAILMAIL? (OH, & A NEW FEATURES UPDATE) By Big Red At Big RED & Shiny we encourage anyone with an event listing or announcement to post their info in our Listings section, since that is the quickest and…
LOOKING BACK ON 2008 By Matthew Nash I have little doubt that, when we look back on the year 2008, it will be remembered for one thing above all others: change. Some of this change was for the better, some for…
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR (AND ANOTHER NEW FEATURE) By Matthew Gamber For the past few issues, there has been a flurry of comments along the tails of articles. The discussions have ranged from considered to caustic to comical. If you have…
NEW IDEAS. NO, I MEAN IDEAS THAT NO ONE HAS HEARD OF BEFORE. By Christian Holland Part 1 of a 3-Part Series. I regret to inform you, but there are no New Ideas. I checked. When I began my quest to…
ANDY WARHOL: POP POLITICS @ THE CURRIER MUSEUM OF ART By James A. Nadeau This year has been chock full of Warhol. In 2008 Warhol would have celebrated his 80th birthday. This milestone (if one can call a dead man’s birthday…
WHERE CAN I FIND SOME NEW ART? By Matthew Nash I’m staring at a blank screen, trying to figure out what to write. I want to write that Boston’s alternative scene is non-existant and that young artists have no place to…
OH COME ALL YE FAITHFUL By Matthew Gamber Happy holidays to all of our loyal Big RED readers. This holiday season, as the economy takes a nose-dive, we at Big RED know how valuable your money is, and how much…
A BAD YEAR FOR SALES, BUT SILVER IS IN THE LINING By Hannah Cole To those of us not on the VIP list, Art Basel Miami Beach is run with all the charm of a POW camp. Having confiscated my camera…
MARKETWATCH By Micah J. Malone How are artists affected by a down economy? With artists being both inside and outside of the general market, it is often difficult to gauge the effects a poor economy actually has. On the one hand,…
FIRST DOUBT @ YALE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY By Megan Driscoll The work at First Doubt, Yale’s latest contemporary art exhibition plays with our instinct to find the informational detail in a photographic image. Our eyes are put to the test…
Tim Griffin, the Editor-in-Chief of Art Forum wrote an introduction to the annual year-in-review December issue of Art Forum titled “Snapshot of 2008”. In his somewhat bland prologue that reads like the wall text of a neophyte curator’s first big…