By MONICA MCFAWN When I was a child, I remember being read “In the Troll Wood,” a strangely compelling picture book. Its characters were trolls, fairies and princesses–not exactly the most original subjects for a children’s book, yet there was…
By THOMAS MARQUET #29: This is a genuine grievance of mine with the Artforum. It’s like they’re hostile to the act of reading and want to make it as awkward as possible. -Tom Thomas Marquet is a cartoonist, sculptor, and…
By JASON DEAN In 2006, brothers Lucas and Jason Ajemian transcribed the Black Sabbath song ‘Into The Void’ backwards and arranged it for a classical orchestra. The piece, entitled ‘From Beyond,’ was scheduled to be performed 4 times in association…
By JAMES NADEAU “The spectacle cannot be understood either as a deliberate distortion of the visual world or as a product of the technology of the mass dissemination of images.” – Guy Debord It is tempting when entering the new…
By MATTHEW NASH In October of 2006, Big RED & Shiny was included in the PRC|POV exhibition at the Photographic Resource Center. This show featured 30 artists, groups or companies that PRC members considered important for the future of photography…
By JESS T. DUGAN Big Red & Shiny writer Jess T Dugan sits down with Daron Manoogian, Director of Communications at the Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM), home to the Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Sackler Museums. Jess and Daron to discuss…
A few years ago, I was privileged to have my work included on Aspect: The Chronicle of New Media Art, alongside the work of Lee Walton. I knew a little of Lee’s work through his “Lee Walton vs. Shaquille O’Neill”…
Yesterday George Fifield sent along a link to the Arts Action Fund’s ArtVote website, which lists the arts positions of the various presidential candidates. As the field has narrowed, there are really only three or four that are relevant, but…
By JESS T. DUGAN Jess T. Dugan: How did you begin making photographs? Susan Wides: My first photo project was a booklet of aerial photographs of the World’s Fair in 1965 shot from the Monorail while traveling above the spectacle!…
By JENNIFER SCHMIDT Jesse LeDoux has been working over seven years as an art director and designer for Seattle-based Sub Pop Records and founding member of Patent Pending Design, LeDoux created iconic album and poster artwork for such artists such…
By MATTHEW NASH The invention of photography in the early nineteenth century is generally held to be the innovation that freed painting from its history as a representational medium and opened the door for a century of Modernist exploration. The…
By ROANNA FORMAN In her first show as curator, painter and installation artist Pamela Sheridan juxtaposes the works of three artists – painter Jeff Suarez, photographer Carol Gaudreau and her own – in a way that pretty much makes the…
By JON PETRO The Newbury Street art scene is pedestrian by location and concept. By which I mean, it’s neither dead or alive; it simply exists because of what it once was. It rarely shows any type of art that…
By SCOTT ALBERG Chip Hooper’s ten silver prints, from the series New Zealand’s South Pacific and Tasman Sea, exhibited at the Robert Klein Gallery, are on first glance evocative of the hackneyed sublime one has come to expect from traditional…
By DAVID O. AVRUCH Anne Krinsky’s show at the Soprafina Gallery, “Diagonal Thinking,” offers 16 works on paper and panel and a friendly, accessible aesthetic. Fourteen of the works, from whose titles the show draws its name, are variations on…
By MATTHEW GAMBER This month marks our fourth year, and we celebrate it (a week early) with our seventy-sixth issue. No, there won’t be the fanfare parades and community events or reenactments that decorated the American Bicentennial year. But, You…
By STEVE AISHMAN So we all know about grazers. They are the people who show up at openings just for the food. They’re out at every event and seem to never look at the art, but always have a mouth…
By THOMAS MARQUET #28: Jacqueline and Derek discuss their work and careers. Thomas Marquet is a cartoonist, sculptor, and critic, based in Brooklyn, New York, which is an admittedly unoriginal place to be pursuing any of these things.Get The White…
By BIG RED January 2008 Evelyn Rydz sent us this selection of images from some openings in Miami this past January. It’s a great peak at what is happening outside of New England.
By BIG RED Saturday January 26th 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED afternoon on-the-town at the opening of Energize! a multi-channel video playback and sound installation by Walter Wright 119 Gallery