By BIG RED February 19th. 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the Enormous Room in Central Sq. at the Berwick Research Institutes’, “nothing fancy- a chance to sit back in psuedo-Moraccan-Manhattan-Orientalist-Chick-Splendor for a good cause and…
By BIG RED Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at The Rhys Gallery for the opening of “Detained Youth”. Rhys Gallery Images by Thomas Guistainis.
By BIG RED February 27th, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town of “Singing the House” by Artist William Pope.L and members of the Manhattan Group MIT William Pope.L on Artnet William Pope.L on TenByTen Images by James…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Due to impending cuts in the state budget, Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has recommended that money to fund the Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC) be cut. A plea from Dan Hunter, Executive Director for Massachusetts Advocates…
By CHARLES GIULIANO With the exception of the occasional great painting, usually Northern European, it is generally thought that the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston missed the boat on acquiring 20th century art. Particularly when compared to its renowned depth…
By MATTHEW GAMBER I have had the opportunity, in close proximity, to be on both sides of the application process. If you’ve read though parts of Issue 35, and you are unfazed by the articles on Art and Academia, here…
By KATHRYN ADA DUTOIT This communiqué from Ralph Steadman accompanies “Drawing Breath: A Retrospective Whisper,” currently on view at the Art Institute of Boston: The last time I was in Boston I was trying to avoid the airport police while…
By LUANNE STOVALL After, the current exhibition at the Mills Gallery curated by Laura Donaldson, seeks to initiate a conversation about our pivotal responses to Loss. Speaking mostly in distanced elegiac tones, the exhibition stakes its primary ground in the…
By MARRIKKA TROTTER Architecture is the expression of the very being of societies….In practice, only the ideal being of society, that which orders and prohibits with authority, expresses itself in what are architectural compositions in the strict sense of the…
By MICAH J. MALONE Mel Ziegler and Kate Ericson produced some of the most important and challenging work of their generation during their ten-year collaboration between 1985-1995. The largest survey to date of their often overlooked and complex production opened…
By BIG RED January 27th 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Art Interactive for the opening reception of Collision 9. Links: Art Interactive Images by James Manning.
By BIG RED February 3rd 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the First Friday openings on Thayer Street and the Mills Gallery at the BCA
By BIG RED January 27th, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at CONTAMINATE: TEST PERFORMANCE images by Michael Schur
By BIG RED January 28, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the grand opening of the new Second Gallery in the Distillery Building, South Boston. Second Gallery Images by Matthew Nash & James Manning.
By BIG RED January 31st 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the reception for “Living in Motion: Design and Architecture for Flexible Dwelling.” This is the final exhibit opening at the ICA Boston at its Boylston…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR The documentary “Zizek!” has been released by Hidden Driver Productions and Documentary Campaign, a non-profit working to combine progressive politics with artistic filmmaking. Hartford’s Real Art Ways made itself the first New England venue for…
By CHARLES GIULIANO January 23, 2006 The initial phone call came back in December. An invitation from the artist Arnold Trachtman to come view a large triptych “Cabarett, 1927” which he worked on from 1993-1995 but had just finished. It…
By KATHLEEN BITETTI Greetings to all. I am honored to have been asked to write for Big Red & Shiny, and rather than duplicate my FYI column in artsMEDIA, I am going to write a column that addresses timely public…
By MICAH J. MALONE As Big, Red and Shiny enters year three I am reminded of our first issue two years ago. Sean Horton was editor then and asked me to write about the “Rare Vermeer” that was then on…
By THOMAS MARQUET Nayda Collazo-Llorens’ Mindscapes is a conceptually coherent and thoughtfully installed exhibition. However, despite the quality of its assembly, it is of limited impact as a whole. Its efforts to create a Gestamkunstwerk work best as a well-conceived…