By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Documentary filmmaker Rebecca Dreyfus’ Stolen, will be featured as part of the 4th Annual Film Festival of Boston this April. Stolen recounts the story of 1990 art heist from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Among…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR This past month, the New York State Supreme Court dismissed a case contesting the ethics of street photography and whether it violates the rights of those individuals photographed. Erno Nussenzweig of Union City, New Jersey,…
By BIG RED The Big RED Anti-telethon is underway, and now is your chance to support our little pink website. It doesn’t take much, just a few dollars from you, for us to continue bringing coverage of the arts in…
By LUANNE STOVALL Editor’s note: This piece is the first in a series of articles concerned with a new model for art education. In response to the questions submitted to Big RED writers concerning the role of art in academia,…
By MICAH J. MALONE Take a stroll through our new issue and you will be impressed with some new updates. For one, take a quick look through our LINKS section, which our publisher has updated and formatted quite impressively. Here…
By CHARLES GIULIANO There was a circus like ambiance last Sunday when I attended a spate of openings in a cluster of galleries at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut. I downloaded directions from Mapquest as it had…
By MICAH J. MALONE March 8th marked the last day the MFA screened the fabulous documentary Zizek!. With an addictive speech pattern where the Slovenian thinker seems to literally breathe Lacan and Marx, Slavoj Zizek has acquired a major following…
By STEVE AISHMAN “I found the Palace of Green Porcelin, when we approached it about noon, deserted and falling into ruin. Only ragged vestiages of glass remained in its windows, and great sheets of the green facing had fallen away…
By BIG RED March 16th, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the grand opening of Space 186. The new joint gallery space between Axiom and Zeitgiest. The first exhibit is “A Means of Illumination” by Allison…
By BIG RED March 18th, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Studio Soto for the video screening “One Night Stand”. Studio Soto
By BIG RED March 11th. 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED afternoon on-the-town at the Artist Foundation Gallery in South Boston for the opening of three solo exhibits : Hiroko Kikuchi “Skinshipu”, Charlie Collidge’s “The Office” and Liz Nofziger’s…
By BIG RED March 10th, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the opening of SNAP! CLICK! BANG! at the Rhys Gallery. The exhibit of 4 photographers Alison Lessmann, Jesse Burke, Alicia Colen and Kevin Kennedy, guest…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR As if gum-chewing 12-year-olds weren’t doing enough damage to art, the Milwaukee Art Museum saw several pieces damaged during an event called ‘Martinifest’. The event, sponsored by Clear Channel, offered guests unlimited martinis for their…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR This past February, a 12 year old student stuck an piece of chewed up gum to the surface of the well loved Helen Frankenthaler painting, “The Bay”. While the gum did not adhere to the…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Ten museums affected by hurricanes Katrina and Rita have been awarded special grants from the MIT-based Museum Loan Network (MLN). The organization has provided $4500 to each institution for museum staff to travel to other…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Five years ago Tom Smith, who with his wife Becky Kidder, runs Kidder Smith Gallery hit Boston’s staid Newbury Street like a human tsunami. With an impeccable, neat as a pin, obsessively minimalist, high concept space it…
By RACHEL GEPNER I had a hard time coming up with a topic for my Letter From the Editor. I wanted to say something pertinent and useful and possibly even intelligent – to discuss what’s been on my mind and…
By MICAH J. MALONE “In the end it comes down to what it always comes down to: vision and visionaries. All we have to do is bring it on and not be boring.” -Jerry Saltz —- Finding fresh criticism for…
By JONATHAN FARDY Somewhere between the blueberry pie and the vampire costume, I paused to reflect on the thoughtfully tangled way that the forty plus artists of the Thread Counts Project succeeded in interpreting the show’s thematic structure. Inspired by…
By JASON SCHIEDEL There’s something in the air at Joe Zane’s terrific solo show at Allston Skirt. Titled Personality, these diverse works of sculpture, painting, drawing and audio tackle the increasingly difficult question of what it takes for an artist…