By BIG RED NEW EDITOR Ahhhhhhhhh…. summer. There are many great things about a summer in New England. For Bostonians and Cantabridgians, the streets are suddenly quiet after the departure of all those pesky students. For everyone else, there are…
By CHARLES GIULIANO For Austrian artists of the generation of Erwin Wurm, born in 1954, the challenge has been to get out from under the formidable gravitas of the strum und drang of the earlier Vienna Actionists of the 1960s.…
By RACHEL GEPNER April 1st of last year I was homeless, penniless and jobless, but I had a studio in 450 Harrison Ave in SoWa. I still remember how proud I was the first time I went in to work.…
By MATTHEW GAMBER Readers, donors – dedicated and new: No commemorative DVD’s were offered! No tote bags! No coffee mugs! No operators were standing by! No phones! Yet, you continued to respond! Here at Big RED, we want to extend…
By STEVE AISHMAN Do you know anyone who remembers when they were a child and would paint or draw all the time but then also remembers the first time they drew on a wall and someone came and yelled at…
By MICAH J. MALONE Perhaps the most distinct and, ironically, traditional aspects of Nina Lola Bachhuber’s show Yesterday I Ate A Lizard is its insistence on formal strategies. It is surprisingly refreshing to find a sculptor primarily interested in a…
By KATHRYN ADA DUTOIT Death. Suffering. Self-image. These ideas and more are explored by Boston artists Bebe Beard and Linda Leslie Brown in new digital-based work in Projecting in Light, which was on view at Wentworth Institute of Technology’s Casella…
By MATTHEW NASH So, when a real estate developer decides to promote a new pair of overpriced condos with two weekends of art events, I tend not to think too much about it. But given that the event is packed…
By JASON SCHIEDEL On April 27th the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT opened an exhibition of two projects by artists John Malpede and Harrell Fletcher with works that use reenactment as a strategy to bring historic events into…
By KATHLEEN BITETTI The revolution will not be televised Part One- the Creative Economy and Cultural Development Addressing creative economy & tourism issues What the foundation of creative economy is and what communities have been left out of the discussion.…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Entering a small constructed space we encounter a work from 1994 “The Wise Man Learns from the Spider How to Spin the Web,” by the artist, Huang Yong Ping, who was born in rural Xiamen, China, in…
By MATTHEW NASH As summer approaches, so does the end of school and the ensuing conflux of graduating student exhibitions. The next few weeks will feature a great abundance of artwork showing the culmination of years of work at many…
By BIG RED April 22, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night OUT OF TOWN at Saltworks Gallery in Atlanta, GA: 60 seconds of play, curated by Avantika Bawa in conjunction with DRAIN, and Push Back by the…
By BAD AT SPORTS A mouth-less snowman seems to cry out from a turbulent ground, imploring us with unseen lips, begging for some kind of crutch upon which it could utter the words of an unknown will. Beside the snowman…
By BIG RED April 12, 2006 Candid snaps from Kelly Sherman’s artist talk at The Berwick. She is the first AIR artist for 2006, and she introduced herself and her previous work to the public as well as the project…
By JASON DEAN Gift and Commodity Transactions in Contemporary Practice, a lecture hosted by Art in General Art is not an ordinary commodity. Art is not a loaf of bread: it’s easy to figure out how much it costs to…
By KAREN SCHIFF On the opening day of Abigail Child’s exhibition of films and prints Mirror World, film theorist Laura Mulvey gave a talk at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. A coincidence of scheduling? Of course…but a highly appropriate…
By BIG RED April 21st, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at NESAD/SU for the opening of Eyegasm, the 2006 fine arts student exhibit.
By RACHEL GEPNER Under normal circumstances this piece would have appeared in the “On the Town” section of Big RED & Shiny because I didn’t intend to review the work when I arrived (or even when I left) the show.…
By BIG RED EDITORS With the launch of Geoff Edgers new blog “The Exhibitionist” via The Boston Globe, we at Big RED thought it would be a good time to look at some of our favorite art blogs from around…