By BIG RED December 1, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED day on-the-town at Open Studios at the historic Fenway Studios, located at 30 Ipswich St. Images selected from the partipating Fenway Artists: Ernest Andrades, Robert Baart, Perry Barton,…
By BIG RED Saturday, November 17th, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at The List Visual Art Center to hear Bill Arning talk about “Sounding the Subject: Selections from the Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection and the…
By SHANE LAVALETTE Mark Wyse is a photographer based out of Los Angeles, CA and teaches at UCLA. His book, 18 Landscapes, published by Nazraeli Press in 2005, focuses on the complexity of cultural perception and interaction and in an…
By MARISSA MOLINARO On November 2, 2007, TIME Magazine published an article about British graffiti artist Banksy titled Banksy Unmasked? A Graffiti Mystery, by Alex Altman. The article displays and discusses a pixilated camera-phone image of a man crouched down…
By BEN SLOAT One of the world’s most prominent commercial photographers, Albert Watson’s images run the gamut from fashion to editorial work and self produced photographic projects. On occasion of his new monograph (published by Phaidon Press), Watson sat down…
By MATTHEW NASH Boston Sculptors Gallery is the kind of art venue that arises out of need, out of a desire for community, and out of shared creative interests. Prior to their current luxurious space on Harrison Ave, BSG was…
By JON PETRO When is making art – painting in this case – a valid function of expression that acts as anti-art or anti-painting? This question, aside from being an entry-level reflection of 20th century French existentialism, also pertains to…
By STEPHEN V. KOBASA A festering of unnatural light around the corner from the exhibition entrance, the fluorescent wall is not glorious, but painful. There is no slant to the truth being told here; no “explanation kind,” as Emily Dickinson…
By MARTINA TANGA As your eye moves across the images, a tune is formulated in your head. As it hovers over comfortable household furniture and interiors, you can hear a pleasant melody. Then your eye sees something unexpected, out of…
By KATIE HARGRAVE Artist Steve Miller’s first museum exhibition at Brandeis University’s Rose Art Museum in Waltham is certainly a destination, painter Steve Miller’s Spiraling Inward is worth the excursion, though don’t expect to immediately grasp the visual language Miller…
By THOMAS MARQUET #24: Introducing the abstract data painter. “The White Cube” comics can be read in series in the Big RED & Shiny Collections section. Thomas Marquet is a cartoonist, sculptor, and critic, based in Brooklyn, New York,…
By CHARLES GIULIANO The third annual North Adams Open Studios continues today [October 13, 2007 -Ed] with work by some 87 artists on view in 23 locations from storefronts on Main, Holden and Eagle Streets, some installed just for this…
By STEVE AISHMAN Art as Cultural Weapon Here are some things I was thinking about, but know nothing about. *All of this may be wrong or taken out of context, but it is what my little research on the subject…
By BIG RED October 26th, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town from the reception for You Can’t Get There From Here, at Gallery Stokes, featuring Meryl Truett and Rebecca Nolan. Also in this set are a number…
Today I received an email from our anonymous art dealer about my post titled “Where Have All The First Fridays Gone?”: In response to your comments regarding First Fridays being a “downer” lately, I thought I might add a few…
If you are a regular art-blog reader, you are probably already aware of the ever-expanding response to Peter Plagens’ roundtable discussion in the new Art In America with (and about) some of the most prominent art bloggers. Based on the…
By MARGOT ANNE KELLEY You heard it here first: Al Gore won! Okay, so maybe you aren’t hearing it here first (and maybe you no longer believe it when you hear it, anyway). But this month, Gore was awarded the…
By KAREN SCHIFF “Art is never a commodity,” declared Peter Schjeldahl, at Boston University on October 4, “though it can be treated as if it is one.” Schjeldahl, the senior art critic at The New Yorker, was trying to reassure…
By CARL GUNHOUSE Why has the installation of the Museum of Modern Art’s New Photography series created so little interest in the photography world? Last time I checked, there were no reviews in the Village Voice, New York Times, not…
By BEN SLOAT The medium of photography has been especially ravenous this past half century. The swelling of the photograph from its key mechanisms of description to include those of performance, appropriation, and construction has not weakened its ability to…