By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Lose it under one state administration, get it back under another, lose it again, get it back, and get more. Massachusetts Advocates for the Arts, Sciences & Humanities have again lobbied triumphantly for the arts…
By THOMAS MARQUET #18: Thomas Marquet’s comic strip about life in a gallery. “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…
By CHARLES GIULIANO During a tour of the small but intense and insightful exhibition “The Last Ruskinians: Charles Eliot Norton, Charles Herbert Moore and Their Circle” the co-curator, Virginia Anderson, and I paused before the remarkably detailed, full scale study…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND This week, the ICA Boston presents Zidane, A 21st-Century Portrait (2005), a film in which 17 35mm cameras follow the French footballer Zinedine Zidane for 90 minutes. The film runs from the moment the first whistle commences…
By MATTHEW NASH Sometimes it seems as if there is a deep divide in the ways we discuss art in our current moment. On one hand, there is a form of dialogue that begins with ideas and intentions, exploring how…
By JENNIFER MCMACKON Much is said in our time about the intersection of art with public space and the idea of the art gallery that exceeds the limitations of it’s walls. But for Patrick Macaulay, Visual Arts Curator at Harbourfront’s…
By BIG RED Thursday, April 19th & Friday, April 20th, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the opening receptions for two student shows. The gallery at the Porter Exchange features work by Shelby Skumanich, Lucy Huffman…
By BIG RED Thursday, April 12th, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at The Museum School for the opening reception of the “Fifth Year Exhibition”. Grossman Gallery at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Boston artist Ravi Jain has been nominated for a Webby for his DriveTime video blog. Voting is open until April 27th, so log in and cast your vote! DriveTime is created by Ravi and his…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Last week the Artadia Boston 2007 first round awards jury convened to review more than 670 applications. The rigorous selection process included Pieranna Cavalchini, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Mark…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Mass MoCA has announced that Denise Markonish will be the new curator, replacing Nato Thompson who left for New York’s Creative Time. Markonish most recently came from New Haven’s Artspace, coming off one of her…
By CHARLES GIULIANO With its summer season in suspense because of deadlocked negotiations with the artist Christoph Buchel in a dispute over expenses and details for an installation in the largest space of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, its…
By THOMAS MARQUET #17: Thomas Marquet’s comic strip about life in a gallery. “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…
By MATTHEW GAMBER Who is behind the masthead of Big RED and Shiny? Just who is the conduit of its content? Have you ever wanted to know what our philosophy is? Who are we, really, in the anonymity of the…
By CHRIS ‘ZEKE’ HAND The Darling Foundry aka Quartier Ephemere exemplifies just about everything that is both great about the Montreal art world, and (unfortunately) everything that is absolutely horrible about the Montreal art world. Initially founded in 1993, Quartier…
By JASON DEAN What I knew of The Books from their 3 previous albums was that they were fellow documenters, appreciators of the sample, the sound collage, the tapes from answering machines at the salvation army. I later found out…
By MATTHEW NASH Currently on view at the Portland Museum of Art is the 2007 Biennial, a juried exhibition that fills the entire ground floor of the Museum, and spreads out onto the lawn and onto the eaves. Featuring 61…
By MATTHEW NASH Thomas Edison’s landmark 1903 film “The Great Train Robbery” ends with a famous shot of a bandit firing his gun at the camera. Wikipedia notes that “(a)udiences at the time, for whom moving pictures were still very…
By HEATHER LOGUE “Autonomous projects dealing with the tension between dominant and alternative (image) cultures in totalitarian regimes”. Quite a mouthful and quite an accomplishment for the Mills Gallery’s guest-curator Femke Lutgerink, who has managed to unite six international (and…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND History will be interpreted differently by different individuals and communities. It goes without saying. In fact, “History” is an interpretation, an interpretation of the past. MassMoca’s show, “Ahistoric Occasion: Artists Making History,” brings together a group of…