By BIG RED December 3, 2005 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at realTIME, a fundraiser event for Axiom, Inc at the Wonderbar in Allston. Links: Axiom Art Images by James Manning.
By BIG RED The biennial everyone loves to hate has announced its list of artists to be praised, loathed, celebrated, scorned, ignored and vaulted into extreme scrutiny. The co-curators this year are Chrissie Iles, curator at the Whitney, and Philippe…
By BIG RED ASPECT: THE CHRONICLE OF NEW MEDIA has announced the release of the sixth edition, titled “On Location”. It is described on their website: Without a fixed physical or temporal locus, Aspect Magazine maximizes the fluidity of its…
By BIG RED Big RED & Shiny is pleased to announce a new feature on our site! In addition to our regular issues, from time to time our editors and writers will now post Quick Reviews of exhibitions and events…
By MICAH J. MALONE Awhile back I was very intrigued with John Baldessari and his collection of film stills. What an elaborate and obsessive system he created where personal organization had more meaning than the “original” source of his material.…
By CHARLES GIULIANO November 24, 2005 Settling into a booth for a Beer and Burger session, Mark Lee Favermann, produced a series of glossy images of his latest project, an installation of silhouettes of 20 birds created over the past…
By RACHEL GEPNER Back in the olden days, groups of people united into tribes and began to hang out and draw deer and suns and little stick people on cave walls all over the world. Seems like not much has…
By BEN SLOAT On view at the Photographic Resource Center until January 22nd is the exhibition of images titled Group Portrait. Comprised of work from five different photographers from the Northeast and the Midwest, the images focus on the intimacy…
By MICAH J. MALONE Because it is the only gallery I can think of that gets its name from and quotes Michel Foucault in its mission statement, I wanted to know more about Space Other. I caught up with the…
By BIG RED November 18, 2005 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the opening for the Drawing Show at The Boston Center For The Arts. Links: Boston Center for the Arts Images by James Manning.
By BIG RED November 18, 2005 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Kidder Smith Gallery for the opening of an exhibiton of new paintings by Miroslav Antic. Links: Kidder Smith Gallery Photos by James Manning.
By BIG RED Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the Trinity Inspires Auction.
By BIG RED November 19, 2005 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Mobius’ event ArtRages. Links: Mobius Images by James Manning.
By BIG RED The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MoCa) recently announced two new curatorial appointments. Susan Cross will join the curatorial staff, bringing 15 years of experience, 10 of which were earned at the Guggenheim Museum. Nato Thompson…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR With $316 million in the bank, Museum of Fine Arts director Malcolm Rogers presided over the groundbreaking ceremony of the $500 millon expansion to Boston’s landmark institution. U.S. Congressman Mike Capuano, state Senator Diane Wilkerson…
By RACHEL GEPNER The blogs have already had a field day with Kevin McCormick’s tragic and luridly fascinating death (“To think I’ve been walking three blocks for coffee…”), and the papers practically shit their pants about it: the horror! Across…
By CHAD MEYER What does it mean to have the little red dot next to your piece in a gallery? How does it feel to be a student with a photograph in a real show for the first time? I…
By MARINA VERONICA In his current exhibition entitled Nature of Things at the Barbara Krakow Gallery, artist Jeff Perrott moves beyond Christian scriptures that inspired some of his earlier pieces, offering us reflections on the human condition, the concept of…
By MATTHEW NASH Currently on view at the Artists Foundation gallery in the Distillery Building are three solo shows of engaging and beautiful works. Josephine Pergola’s “Surface Tension”, Joe Steele’s “Little Big Mind” and Adra Raine’s film “Water” each offer…
By THOMAS MARQUET Christian Jankowski: Everything Fell Together, consists of 12 works, all of which entail a greater or lesser degree of collaboration between Jankowski and individuals or institutions external to the art world. In engaging with these disparate constituents,…