By CHARLES GIULIANO From April 27 through 29, 2007 there will be a “Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts” hosted in Boston by TransCultural Exchange. Representatives of artist residencies, museums, individual artists, curators and critics from all over the…
“THE WHITE CUBE” By THOMAS MARQUET #8: 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…
By ANONYMOUS ART DEALER Q: When should I increase the prices of my paintings? I just recently got into 3 group shows and a few friends think I am pricing my work too cheaply. Thoughts? A: Wow, a lot of…
By MATTHEW GAMBER This past Thursday, Big RED was one of many press outlets given the opportunity to view the new Diller Scofidio + Renfro building, the new home of the ICA. While workers were continuing to add the finishing…
By ARTHUR WHITMAN Drawings and “works on paper” are popular these days, not simply as a medium, but also as an artistic, and perhaps more significantly, a curatorial theme. For example, in the winter of 2002 and 2003, the Museum…
By CAROLYN FRANKLIN Deb Todd Wheeler’s exhibition at Green Street Gallery is one of those shows that stays with you, nibbling at the edges of your mind, forever asking unanswered questions. It is a show that is part whimsey, part…
By PHAEDRA SHANBAUM Animated documentary film is not a new idea. Traditionally animation was used in documentaries and instructional videos as visual portrayals of abstract ideas, or as a representation of an artifact that no longer exists, such as demonstrating…
By When Colin Rhys announced that he would be moving Rhys Gallery from his loft on Northampton Street to a plush new space on Harrison, adjacent to the SoWa complex, there were a lot of questions. Would the gallery continue…
By BIG RED Thursday November 9th 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the opening reception for Rick Harlow ‘Paintings’ and Barry Goldstein ‘Veterans’ at The New England School of Art and Design at Suffok University. —…
By BIG RED November 11th, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at GREEN STREET GALLERY for the opening of Deb Todd Wheeler: Live Experiments in Human Energy Exchange – Photographs by Jeremias Paul. Green Street Gallery
By BIG RED Friday November 17th 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at opening of Studios @ 35: Artists at the Boston Center for the Arts. Curated by James Manning. Artists: Martha Jane Bradford, James Cambronne, Sue…
By BIG RED November 4th, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Saltworks Gallery in Atlanta GA for the opening of Michael Scoggins, The Patiot Letters and the Avantika Bawa curation, SISYPHEAN DESIRES, SYSTEMS AND DEVICES, as…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Auction prices for both modern and post-war work is hitting all time highs once again. In what feels like a weekly trend, the single night art auction record of $491 million was established at Christies.…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR From November 12-15, 2006, Boston was home to the annual Grantmakers In The Arts conference, this year called the ‘Beantown Remix’. Held at the Omni Parker House, hundreds of representatives from nearly every major arts…
By ANONYMOUS ART DEALER Q: How do you find artists? Do you ever have relationships with artists that send you portfolios in the mail? A: I usually find artists from word of mouth. I would have an artist friend that…
By JAIMES MAYHEW On Sunday, October 1st, the Institute for Infinitely Small Things traveled down to Providence to observe the Disaster Drill that was being staged in Kennedy Plaza. This was just one of many Disaster Drills that have been…
By THOMAS MARQUET #7: 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 in…
By JENNIFER MCMACKON TAAFI is in full swing. Holding its third annual event in Toronto and the crowds are out and the hype is on. I’m in room 203 of the tony Drake Hotel speaking with John McLachlin about his…
By GARY DUEHR Every work of visual art is an object of desire. It makes you want to get closer, see more, feel the texture. And usually, of course, this is forbidden or impossible—either because the artwork is on display,…
By BEN SLOAT The idea of humans having five senses comes from Aristotle, relating to his greater writings on perception, a condition he used to distinguish animals from plants. In the Aristotelian philosophy, an animal’s lifetime is defined by its…