By BIG RED April 28th 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Studio Soto for the opening of: Dibujo Venezuela – Drawing USA Studio Soto
By MATTHEW NASH Lounging in the cozy chairs of Emack & Bolio’s, Ravi Jain and I recently took time out to sip tea and discuss his life online. The 35-year-old MassArt grad has been making a lot of friends with…
By BIG RED April 21 & April 28, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the opening reception for graduating students at AIB. The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University
By BIG RED April 26th 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at The Rose Art Museum for the opening of two Exhibitions,Erwin Wurm: I Love My Time, I Don’t Like My Time and Sarah Walker: Paintings. Erwin…
By BIG RED NEW EDITOR Pointing out that Boston is a college town is like saying the Pope is Catholic: so redundant as to not be worth the effort. As college towns, Boston & Cambridge are prone to a peculiar…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR A follow up on a news item from last Issue 41: This past April 10th, the House Ways and Means Committee proposed a budget that would include a 6% funding increase for the Massachusetts Cultural…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Google’s occasional sprucing of their site did not liven up everyone’s internet searching experience. The most recent logo change, which the search giant goliath occasionally alters graphically to pay tribute to a significant cultural event…
By JAMES MANNING On Thursday April 27th 2006, after more than five years in the works, A Chinatown Banquet, a key component of The Chinatown Heritage Project was unveiled. The Chinatown Heritage Project is an ongoing effort to capture and…
By BIG RED April 7, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Tufts University, for the opening of a Museum School graduate thesis exhibition. The artists included were Stefanie Bruser-Smith, Brian Gershey, Nan C. Hockenbury, Thomas Marquet,…
By BIG RED April 4th 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the Rhys Gallery for the opening of Synergetic, featuring the work of Lana Z. Caplan, Harvey Loves Harvey and Reese Inman Photos by James Manning.…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR This April 10th, the House Ways and Means Committee proposed a budget that would include a 6% funding increase for the Massachusetts Cultural Council. This proposal overall is $3 million more than Governor Mitt Romney’s…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR The Institute of Contemporary Art has announced the finalists for the 2006 ICA Artist Prize Honoring Outstanding Boston Artist. This year’s finalists are Sheila Gallagher, Jane D. Marsching, Kelly Sherman, and Rachel Perry Welty. The…
By BIG RED Do you remember when PBS would interrupt your favorite shows to ask for money? Or when Jerry Lewis and his friends asked for your support? Every telethon appealed to the better angels of our nature, with banks…
By CHARLES GIULIANO The work of the Spanish master, Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828), is so richly diverse and complex, that depending upon what is sampled, it is possible to present him as the progenitor of just about any…
By MATTHEW GAMBER Today was Sunday; this is 41, our next offering. I have liked them both, simultaneously. Some of you, no doubt, will be reading this issue asynchronously with how we have experienced it: on the brink of having…
By GERALD ROJEK When asked to review the Frank Stella: 1958 exhibition at the Sackler Museum at Harvard University, I kept asking myself whether the current generation of painters would be interested in Frank Stella’s work, let alone a body…
By PHAEDRA SHANBAUM A year ago, American Repertory Theater director, Robert Woodruff, approached Boston-based video artist Denise Marika about a possible collaboration on an unwritten project by Highway Ulysses playwright Rinde Eckert. Marika, an artist who usually creates her work…
By ERIN M. SADLER Contemporary Fine Artists are unconsciously and strategically placed in the position of an economical base for a multi-billion dollar industry. Veiled by way of ideology, Art maintains earning an actual income convincingly impossible for the Artist.…
By BIG RED March 25th, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town for the opening of the second exhibit at Second Gallery: “I Love You More Than Life (and That’s Not Saying Much)” by Goody-B. Wiseman and “A…
By BIG RED March 21st, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town for the opening of “Projecting in Light” A multimedia installation with Bebe Beard and Linda Leslie Brown. The exhibit is at the Casella Gallery at Wentworth…