By JAMES NADEAU Blogs are a dime a dozen. They are ubiquitous reminders of the human desire to connect to the world and other people. They are evidence of Habermas’ public sphere, the space where dialogue and conversation between private…
By MATTHEW GAMBER It’s Labor Day Weekend. Our Big RED writers and contributors dug deep (emotionally – the weather outside is alluring) and contributed to this, our 68th issue, the Summer’s Growing Old Issue. Galleries follow a close parallel schedule…
By STEVE AISHMAN “The Six Mistakes of Man” The delusion that personal gain is made by crushing others. The tendency to worry about things that cannot be changed or corrected. Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish…
By KATHLEEN BITETTI Part-timer’s and Adjunct Professors Health Insurance and Retirement Legislation Greetings! Here are two pieces of Massachusetts legislation that will probably be of interest to the artist community. Rather than re-work the information, I am posting the email…
By CHARLES GIULIANO While this is the 50th anniversary of the 1967 “Summer of Love,” the fast ending season will also be noted for a media romance with the current exhibition “Making It New: The Art and Style of Sara…
By THOMAS MARQUET #21: If you have to be at work on a holiday, what is the best way to kill the time? “The White Cube” comics can be read in series in the Big RED & Shiny Collections section.…
By JOHN RUGGIERI I remember the big stink, the uproar, that spilled into the daily newspaper when Serra’s Tilted Arc was deemed unfit, too big, just not practical enough, for human consumption in its commissioned site at the Federal Plaza…
By MICAH J. MALONE Camouflage is a modest exhibition dealing with artist’s use of pattern to construct paintings. The title of the exhibitions takes its name from Andy Warhol’s giant 37-foot canvas. While pattern has certainly been a major theme…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND In Merging Influence: Eastern Elements in New America Art, the word “east” has a somewhat dubious meaning. It does not necessarily mean the “Far East,” but means what is not the West. The idea brings about a…
By JON PETRO “Spencer Finch: What Time Is It on the Sun?” now on display at Mass MoCA, consists of over 40 groupings of art, 160 individual pieces in total, four of which the press-release states as major new works.…
By BEN SLOAT I’ve debated the merits of Edward Hopper over a number of years. Always I’ve thought of him as a Willy Loman figure, an unobtrusive traveler of New York and New England, quietly painting the slow failures of…
By JOE LEDUC Immanuel Kant once wrote that “a man abandoned on a desert island would not adorn either himself or his hut” to demonstrate the essentially social nature of art. While it may be created in solitude, art for…
By HEIDI MARSTON AISHMAN At 5:00 on August 28th, people lined up outside the frosted glass doors of Rhys Gallery. They all knew the doors wouldn’t open until 6:00, it was hot, humid, and everyone was anxious. As they waited…
By VICTORIA Z. ALEXANDER Only painting which itself succeeds in beings a monstrous act succeeds in resolving and in reabsorbing the monstrosity of our lives, only painting that succeeds in becoming a mythic operator also succeeds in resolving the monstrosity…
By BIG RED Saturday, August 11th, 2007 Candid snaps from the a day at The Boston Design Center for a photo shoot by Brian Burkhardt and Tanit Sakakini. For this project, the artists are creating an iconic image of 18…
By BIG RED Saturday, August 11th, 2007 More candid snaps from the a day at The Boston Design Center for a photo shoot by Brian Burkhardt and Tanit Sakakini. For this project, the artists are creating an iconic image of…
By BIG RED Thursday, July 26th 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the opening of STENCILS: Public Space and Social Intervention. Exhibit organized by Hiroko Kikuchi and Alice Vogler. Participating artists: Dirk Adams, Beth Balliro, Michael…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Inspired by the success of our Listings RSS feed, we’ve added a new feed for our Calls For Artists & Opportunities! So, for those of you who use RSS to keep up on what’s happening…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in conjunction with the Forsyth Institute, has annouced that it will acquire the the Forsyth Institute’s property on the Fenway, thereby expanding the MFA’s visibility in the area. The…
By BIG RED & SHINY The Big RED & Shiny 2007 Annual has finally arrived! Packed with essays by Jane Hudson, James Nadeau, Marrikka Trotter, Meg Rotzel, Heidi Aishman, Matthew Gamber, Steve Aishman and Matthew Nash, our new book brings…