By BIG RED May, 20th 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night out-of-town at the opening for Candice Ivy’s installation Murmur at The Old City Jail on Magazine St. in Charleston, SC as part of the Piccolo Spoleto Festival.…
By ARTHUR WHITMAN The main problem with the 2006 DeCordova Annual Exhibition, aside from its predictable unevenness, is that the work within doesn’t interrelate very well. Each of the thirteen artists selected (counting a two artist team) presents a body…
By JUDITH LEEMANN Several years ago Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois, Chicago re-staged the 1976 work Rayna by James Turrell. This installation consists of a dimly lit room with a rectangular window opening onto another room, the careful…
By MARK SNYDER I am really excited to see that there is a growing performance art scene in Boston. The Present Tense is the latest effort to gather together artists, garner space and get the word out to a performance…
Part I: Futility A few weeks ago I received an email from an artist named Matthew Hincman. It was only a few short lines about a sculpture he had installed at the Jamaica Pond, and a picture. “The sculpture…
By HEIDI MARSTON On Friday, June 6th, Sweetness, an exhibition of work in various media by 5 women artists, opened at the Sherman Gallery on the Boston University campus. The show, curated by Lynne Cooney has succeeded in creating an…
By MICAH J. MALONE 9 Evenings Reconsidered: art, theatre, and engineering is a sprawling exhibition centered around a major collaborative effort that transpired in 1966. As the catalog and the curators make clear, to reconsider these 9 evenings is not…
By STEVE AISHMAN Anyone who has a great older brother or sister knows that the defining quality of a great sibling is not if she defended me on the playground (which my older sister did) or if she loaned me…
By EAN FRICK When living in an age of over consumption we often find ourselves searching for gold among the piles of plastic. Aaron Brewer and Michael Mahalchick’s installations, currently showing at the Second Gallery, achieve this diamond in the…
By KAREN SCHIFF When the Museum of Modern Art reopened in Manhattan, Eva Hesse’s sculptural assemblage of knee-high translucent rumpled cylinders, “Repetition Nineteen III” (1968), was installed behind a wall that held a large Agnes Martin painting. The pairing was…
By ANNA FAKTOROVICH The message is on the wall, in the yellow rectangle drawn around the eleven oil portraits on panel. Jeffrey Ellse’s art is trapped in rectangles. His art expresses a fear of expression. Psychological barricades are erected in…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND When Kelly Sherman began her residency at the Berwick Research Institute’s Artist in Research (AIR) program, she had set out to create a project based on seating arrangements at weddings. When I heard this, I suspected that…
By BIG RED THE DA VINCI CODE by MICAH J. MALONE X-MEN 3 by MATTHEW NASH NACHO LIBRE by RACHEL GEPNER BRICK by JASON DEAN ART SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL by BEN SLOAT TOKYO DRIFT by CHRISTIAN HOLLAND THE DEVIL WEARS…
By BIG RED May 7th 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED evening on-the-town at the National Bitter Council GOYA honoring Day Banquet. The Bitter Melon Council celebrated the annual GOYA Honoring Day with a 7 course banquet, each course…
By BIG RED May 5th, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the First Friday openings at Harrison Street. photos from the May Openings of: Beth Galston and Ann Torke at Boston Sculptors Gallery Rachel Dayson at…
By BIG RED May 5, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the First Friday openings at Harrison Street. Featuring the ongoing adventures of the Big RED Trucker Cap.
By BIG RED May 6, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at “ArtHouse”, 85 Rockview St. in Jamacia Plain. —- ArtHouse
By BIG RED May 12th 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the opening of OHM, curated by Dana Moser Axiom, Inc
By BIG RED May 4, 2005 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town on Newbury Street for openings at Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Pepper Gallery and Robert Klein Gallery. Featuring the adventures of the Big RED Trucker Cap “Aya Baya…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR As Geoff Edgers over at “The Exhibitionist” reported earlier this week, Linda Norden will be leaving the Fogg after 8 years as curator. She has not stated her future plans. In a conversation with Charles…