By JON PETRO I once attended a lecture where Zach Feuer, ex-Bostonian and proprietor of a number of galleries in NYC, spoke to an audience of 20 or so newbies about how to make it in our current art market.…
By MATTHEW NASH ‘Patamechanics is a method of discovering/manifesting artifacts’ much like those of the ancient Wonder-rooms, ‘which symbolically attribute their properties described by their virtuality to their lineaments.’ A Patamechanical artifact or device is displayed with the intention of…
By MATTHEW GAMBER A professor I once had was always probing students for the core of what made people want to create. She was little interested in what socialized rationale students offered, because it was usually safe to say in…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Deval Patrick and Tim Murray will have had nine weeks between Election Day and inauguration to prepare a new administration for their next four years in office. Nine weeks, when considering the length of the administration and…
By BIG RED November 1-5 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED weekJ on-the-town at The Mobius International Festival of Performance Art. Mobius
By BIG RED Friday, November 3, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the reception for Art Cake: The Delicious Transient New Medium at Axiom. Artists included: Rob Coshow, Catherine Dechico and Emily Su, Heloisa Escudero, George…
By BIG RED Thursday, November 2, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at The Judi Rotenberg Gallery for the opening of Donna Rosenthal and LaVaughan Jenkins: Undressed. Judi Rotenberg Gallery
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Let’s begin our report of the final episode of the Art Show Down with a letter from painter Rick Berry: Dear BR&S After having read Heidi Marston’s column on the “Art Showdown” I somehow trucked…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Recently annouced, effective February 5th of next year, Harvard University Art Museum’s first full curator for contemporary art, a position in the once vacant department of contemporary and modern art, created in 1997. Helen Molesworth,…
By BIG RED EDITORS Here at Big RED & Shiny, we are always looking for new ways to promote artists and discussions about art. Some work, others don’t. Our Forum has gone through many stages, but rarely has it been…
By #6: 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 Brooklyn, New…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND On Sunday, November 5, 2006, the 401st Guy Fawkes Night was celebrated. Today, we bring to you the 51st issue of Big RED and shiny. The most significant change to Big RED for Issue 51 is the…
By Artist’s desire to create a better reality through alternative communities is not a new phenomenon. Indeed, it has been the goal of the avant-garde for the past century to merge art with everyday life through an alternate lifestyle. The…
By MATTHEW NASH On Friday, November 3 there were two competing receptions to choose from. The first was the juggernaut of SoWa First Fridays, usually crowded with a wide range of Boston art lovers, and an ecclectic mix of artwork…
By MARIA LACRETA Sharon Lockhart’s newest look at childhood, Pine Flat, was shown at the Harvard Film Archive, in conjunction with Pine Flat Portrait Studio, a series of 19 portraits at Harvard’s Sackler museum, made of the kids in the…
By ARTHUR WHITMAN Among the many paradoxes that pervade Gerry Bergstein’s life and art (and these interpenetrate in myriad ways), perhaps the most central is that of his status in the world of art. He is at once a classic…
By BIG RED October 14th 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the opening reception for the exhibit “PURE”, an exhibit performances and works by more than 70 artists at a former office supply superstore in Brighton…
By BIG RED October 21, 2006 Jane Farver and Bill Arning of MIT asked Big RED & Shiny to co-host a tour for the Friends of Boston Art group on Saturday, October 21. Big RED ‘s Matthew Nash helped put…
By BIG RED Saturday October 14th 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED exclusive day behind the scenes at the taping of episodes 5 & 6 of the “Art Show Down” game show at Art Interactive. Art Interactive Art Show…
By BIG RED October 12th 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the opening “Soiree for France: Between Then & Now”, photography and collage by Roland Smart at the French Library and Cultural Center. French Library and…