By HEIDI MARSTON Have you ever had the feeling that you were being watched? Have you ever taken the subway and felt someone’s eyes looking at you? That feeling of being seen in an uncomfortable and almost invasive way was…
By LUANNE STOVALL Once upon a time, there lived a young woman who dreamed of a beautiful place where the intoxicating passions of the Muse could thrive. During the course of her historic odyssey, she became an ardent community supporter,…
By KATHRYN ADA DUTOIT Space Other’s raison d’être is to provide a venue for artists who would not otherwise have the opportunity to show in Boston, or even outside of their native countries. The current show, “Closer,” features the work…
By THOMAS MARQUET #1: Tom Marquet’s new comic series, “The White Cube” begins here with the opening of a new gallery. “The White Cube” comics can be read in series in the Big RED & Shiny Collections section. Thomas…
By CHARLES GIULIANO November 11, 2005 Last night, the California-based artist Ed Ruscha spoke to an overflow audience at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University about the exhibition “Course of Empire” which represented the United States…
By BIG RED November 2, 2005 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at 150×150 The Mad Dash at Green Street Gallery. After a preview exhibition, art lovers and supporters waited patiently at the Green Street subway station and…
By BIG RED november 4, 2005 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the kickoff bash for Waltham Open Studios. The event featured DJ music by Reverend Niq Jones and DJ DiMatteo, live music by Cirkestra, performances by the…
By BIG RED November 4, 2005 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at First Fridays at the SoWa Gallery District. —— Links: Locco Ritoro Gallery Genovese/Sullivan Gallery Bernard Toale Gallery Samson Projects Allston Skirt Gallery
By BIG RED LEF Foundation, a Cambridge-based organization that supports artists and film-makers in New England, recently announced they will provide funding for Big RED & Shiny. Their generous support will be used to continue the work of our little…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR It is commonly believed that creativity can be an outlet for one’s inner-most feelings and desires. This is a the basis of many discussions around artists and their work, from Jackson Pollock to Janine Antoni…
By BIG RED The Mad Dash may be over, but there are still plenty of great works available at Green Street Gallery for $150. The sale of these works benefits one of Boston’s exciting alternative spaces, and is a great…
By BIG RED Big RED & Shiny is pleased to announce the winner of the first Big RED design competion: Stefano Pasquini! Stefano Pasquini (b. 1969, Bologna, Italy) received his MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna in…
By MATTHEW NASH I have to admit, I’m disappointed. A few issues back, I offered up a chance for the readers of Big RED & Shiny to design an issue of our little pink website. This came out of many…
By CHARLES GIULIANO “You’ve known me since I was a little squirt,” Kathy Bitetti laughed as we met for a beer and burger to discuss her remarkable multi tasking as artist, curator, public policy advocate and long term director of…
By MARINA VERONICA Print this article Newspapers offer us images of death and pain caused by wars, governmental injustices, physical abuse and torture with such frequency that over time, we tend to gloss over them. Yet upon closer examination, some…
By ANTHONY TUCK Print this article The Open Studios Season is upon us. Metalic blue and gold streamers hang limp from walkup windows, inviting foot traffic in from the rain. Hand written signs offer encouragement and direction from walk-up floor…
By ANNEKA LENSSEN Print this article Glowlab: an Open Lab is an exhibit of works-in-progress* largely conceived by a unit of Williamsburg artists called Glowlab, who practice psychogeography and who for two months are practicing it from their base at…
By JAMES MANNING Print this article I first met Liz Nofziger during her graduate thesis show at the Massachusetts College of Art in the spring of 2004. I was immediately drawn to her work because of the ways that she…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR NAO Gallery director Karine Jouenne has announced that her gallery will be closing this fall. In a recent email, Jouenne said that NAO “will not be able to financially sustain the gallery beyond the end…
By MICAH J. MALONE The latest issue of FRIEZE magazine is dedicated to asking what has changed in art over the last 40 years. Responses inevitably vary from the rise of technology-based art to the supposed fall of minimalism, or…