THOUGHTS ON MY ARTISTIC EDUCATION By Jennifer McMackon I attended primary school in Burlington, a small city between Hamilton and Toronto on the Northwest shore of Lake Ontario in the early seventies. My alma mater was called Strathcona Public School.…
2008 ICA FOSTER PRIZE FINALISTS: A CONVERSATION WITH ANDREW WITKIN By Micah J. Malone On November 12th, the 2008 James and Audrey Foster Prize exhibition opened at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. Andrew Witkin is one of the four…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE By Steve Aishman Our toys were our first art collections. I still have all of my Star Wars figures, lined-up in their “Action Display Stand” just the way I liked to show them when…
THIS IS BOSTON NOT L.A. @ LAMONTAGNE GALLERY By James A. Nadeau There is a story about the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer that I often think about. It is believed that Schopenhauer was a dour and glum person. He was…
OBAMA: AN ARTS-FRIENDLY PRESIDENT? By Matthew Nash On Tuesday, November 4th, Americans overwhelmingly voted for Barack Obama to be the next President of the United States. This is a truly amazing moment in history that many have already written about, and…
TARA DONOVAN @ THE ICA By Matthew Nash The first thing I noticed upon entering the ICA’s West Gallery was the abundance of security guards hovering around the room, their teeth gritted nervously. While this might seem intimidating to the average…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE By Steve Aishman The Reverence Of Looking The Zuni have used clay figures for thousands of years. Buddhists; mandalas. A clinical psychologists may suggest a candle. Christians may use the cross. Cultures from around the…
EDITS @ HALLSPACE By Karen S. Fegley To edit a newspaper is to correct or modify text and other content in order to make it suitable for publication. In Edits, HallSpace’s current show, Melissa Zexter and Pat Shannon turn that…
PHILADANCO @ THE ICA By Chelsey Philpot Financial down-turns throughout history have shown that even in a tough economy people do not stop going to movies. Why shell out twelve bucks for a blockbuster? Why pay too much for butter-soaked…
BILL T. JONES/ARNIE ZANE DANCE CO: ANOTHER EVENING: SERENADE/THE PROPOSITION By Chelsey Philpot February 2009 will mark the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth. Celebratory volumes singing the sixteenth president’s praises — new biographies, Civil War history hard covers, and children’s…
RACHEL WHITEREAD @ THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON By James Nadeau “The house, even more than the landscape, is a ‘psychic state,’ and even when reproduced as it appears from the outside, it bespeaks intimacy.” – Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics…
KARSH 100 @ THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON By Kat Kiernan Walking into Karsh 100: A Biography in Images, an exhibition of Yosurf Karsh’s photographs at the Museum of Fine Arts, I found myself face-to-face with Winston Churchill. Not the…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE By Steve Aishman Night of the Living Dead (1968) Halloween (1978) Dawn of the Dead (1978) A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) Day of the Dead (1985) Creepshow 2 (1987) Monkey Shines (1988) They…
SPINNING RHETORICAL WHEELS IN RHETORIC: AN ESSAY ON THE ESSAY By Christian Holland Every piece published on Big RED and Shiny is an essay in some form or another. The following is an attempt, an ‘essay’ if you will, to…
SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL @ MUSéE D’ART CONTEMPORAIN DE MONTRéAL By Megan Driscoll The Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal is featuring an exciting traveling exhibition devised by Dominic Molon, curator of Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art. Sympathy for the Devil:…
Today Harvard announced the gift from class of 1936 alumna Emily Rauh Pulitzer, a former curator at HUAM and wife of the late Joseph Pulitzer Jr. The gift is part of the Pulitzer family’s ongoing philanthropy in support of the…
ASKEW @ 215 COLLEGE ARTISTS’ CONTEMPORARY GALLERY By Amanda Sanfilippo Featuring the work of Paul Humphrey, Jennifer Koch, Tarrah Krajnak and Lance Richbourg, Askew: Contemporary Portraits lays out four different approaches to contemporary portraiture, all of which are intertwined in…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: TRUSTMAN GALLERY, SIMMONS COLLEGE By Big Red Thursday, October 9th , 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the opening of The Human Animal Project. Curated by Paul Roux Trustman Art Gallery at Simmons College…
BETH LIPMAN @ RISD & SOVIET POLITICAL ART @ BROWN By James Nadeau Last weekend I took a road trip (actually it was a train trip) to Providence. I went to check out the new wing at the museum at the…
