By BIG RED September 30th, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the Artist Foundation for Bruce Myren, Jennifer Nazzaro, and Candice Ivy. Artists Foundation
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR North Adams will host it’s first open studios event on October 14-15. Head out to the Berkshires and check out the thriving art community in western Massachusetts. From the press release: Mass MoCA will serve…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR The artists Alexi Antoniadis’ and Nico Stone’s first show ever, Refuge and Prospect at UMass Boston’s Harbor Gallery has met much more controversy than they ever imagined. The controversy, however, has nothing to do with…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR In a press conference last week, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston announced the transfer of thirteen antiquities to Italy via the Ministry of Culture. The objects in question had been acquired through deals stemming…
By ANONYMOUS ART DEALER Have you ever wondered how the gallery business works? Are you an artist who wants to sell your work, but have questions or concerns? Are you a collector looking for the best deals? Our anonymous art…
By KATHLEEN BITETTI What makes a scam a scam? As a continuation in the spirit of my column on fair trade means fair trade — I want to first alert artists to a scam that has come to my attention.…
By THOMAS MARQUET #4: 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 MATTHEW NASH The American childhood is a much discussed institution, often held up as something to be protected against the loss of innocence that is adulthood. Thus we put warnings on music and ratings on movies, and spoon-feed Disney…
By FRANK PEREZ I’m new to Boston, been here a little more than a week. Before I showed up, I had heard about Newbury Street as the place where art is shown, but it turned out to be that, for…
By JEREMIAS PAUL You are being watched. We all are. As I write this in the solitary confinement of my apartment, I am reminded, by the sight of the ominous black ball attached to the building adjacent to mine, that…
By JON PETRO The human eyes consist of two different types of photoreceptors, rods and cones, which send information to the brain for interpretation. The rods number in the 120 million and are far more sensitive than their counter–part, the…
By BIG RED & SHINY REGENERATION @ AIB by BEN SLOAT LOïS MAïLOU JONES: THE EARLY WORKS @ THE MUSEUM SCHOOL by MATTHEW NASH CRAFTY @ MASSART by CHRISTIAN HOLLAND GüNTHER SELICHAR: MEDIA MACHINES @ TUFTS UNIVERSITY by MATTHEW…
By MATTHEW NASH Art does not die because there is no more art, it dies because there is too much. Jean Baudrillard [1] Is there too much art? What a strange question to have to ask, and yet there are…
By BIG RED Friday, September 15, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Art Interactive for the opening reception for ‘Art Show Down’ – an art-themed game show. Art Interactive Art Show Down
By BIG RED Friday, September 8, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at First Friday openings in Boston’s SoWa District. Boston Sculptors Gallery Kingston Gallery Bromfield Gallery Samson Projects Allston Skirt Gallery O’H+T Gallery
By BIG RED September 6, 2006 Not so candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at The Mission Bar
By MICAH J. MALONE Los Angeles artist Jason Rhoades passed away early last month in what is said to be a possible heart failure. Rhoades was often described as a very enigmatic person, which could easily be discerned from his…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Art Showdown is a game show about art, and an art exhibition about game shows currently on view at Art Interactive. This project, two years in the making, has involved the full transformation of the…
By BIG RED EDITORS Big RED & Shiny is always looking for people who are excited about art and want to write about it. As the new season kicks off this fall, there is plenty of art to see in…
