By BIG RED Print this article Somerville-based arts journal and National Magazine Award winner DoubleTake has ceased publication after failing to support itself for several years. Fundraisers, that included a performance by Bruce Springsteen and a celebrity auction in early…
By ARTNET Print this article The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass., is launching the Clark Prize for Excellence in Arts Writing, a new annual award designed to recognize art criticism that has broad audience appeal while…
By BIG RED Print this article Alternate Currents’ director Scott Cipolla is initiating a Corporate Lease Program, through which Boston corporations will be able to rent art works. Big Red and Shiny interviewed her. BRS: How was the idea of…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article George Nick: An Artist’s Conscience Concord Art Association 37 Lexington Road Concord, Mass. Through December 23 Gallery Naga Through December 18 Since his first one person exhibition, in 1964, at the Carnegie Institute of…
By BEN SLOAT Print this article From the photographic capture of commonplace social artifacts by Eugene Atget and Walker Evans to the lifestyle documentation in the “snapshot aesthetic” by Nan Goldin and Wolfgang Tilmans, photographing “ordinary” life is at once…
By MATTHEW NASH Print this article Is it alright to review the opening of a show? Is it somehow demeaning to gauge the qualities of an exhibition based on the response of the group that turned out to herald the…
By JOANNE PASILA Six months after its opening in May of this year, there isn’t much that hasn’t already been asked or said about the Interventionists exhibition at Mass MoCA. I’ve asked the MASS MoCA Security staff – the…
By MATTHEW NASH Print this article On October 16, 2004, members of the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD) met to discuss Futures for the Terminal Professional Degree in Art and Design. The purpose of this discussion,…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article These are tough times for bleeding hearts, tax and spend, liberal Democrats from Massachusetts. You know, the ones, way back when, who voted for Mike Dukakis, when he carried just his home state in…
By JED WILLARD Print this article The November 5 cover story of the UK’s Daily Mirror exclaimed in hyperbolic terms what billions of people around the world are probably thinking now: that America has voted for “carnage and isolation and…
By BIG RED Print this article November 5, 2004 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at SOWA First Friday. Photographer Thomas Gustainis The Big RED publisher makes a scene The crowd @ Bernard Toale Gallery More Bernard Toale…
By THOMAS DORAN Print this article “To comprehend is not to construct an intellectual thesis but to apprehend by coexistence, the consciousness that is at the same time spontaneous and reflected.” Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Visible and the Invisible How do…
By ANNEKA LENSSEN Print this article The Nave Gallery is a lovely new exhibition space located in the still-active Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church on Powderhouse Boulevard. The gallery recently showed a lovelier still exhibit, curated by Lauren O’Neal and Alex…
By MATTHEW NASH Print this article A quick Google search of the phrase genetically modified vegetables produces a wide range of interesting results. They run the gamut from the practical (What are the labelling requirements for genetically modified food?) to…
By JOE ZANE Print this article FEED – Artists and Digital Influence: a show around the theme of artists who use technology in creation of their work. Thirty or forty years ago this might have been a exciting topic to…
By ANNEKA LENSSEN Print this article MOBILIZE (the 4th in the ongoing international performance art series) presented by Mobius and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston produced by Marilyn Arsem and Jamie McMurry at the Charlestown Working…
By BIG RED Print this article The past few months have seen many highs, and just as many lows, for the people of Boston. For every great moment, there has been a terrible one. For each evening spent in revelry,…
By JESSICA POSER Print this article Art Interactive begins its third season on a poetic and spiritually resonant tone with its first solo show, Sonalumina-13, a sound installation by Jeff Talman. This site-specific work is a meditative exploration of the…
By BIG RED Print this article October 8, 2004 Candid photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at GALLERY for the opening of EXHIBITION —- Links: Clifford-Smith Gallery “Josh Winer: Photographs” is on view October 5 – 30, 2004 at…
By BIG RED Print this article This past weekend, the Berwick Research Institute released their first book: BRI*air. As one of Boston’s more embattled alternative spaces, the Berwick has been functioning without its exhibition venue or performance space for over…