By COLIN TRACY Print this article That sex sells will hardly be news to anyone conscious of the history of advertising. We like looking at the bodies of the people we find sexually attractive—why not? And so ad designers work…
By BIG RED Print this article One of America’s greatest contributions to world culture has been the game show. What other industry could bring us such great celebrities as Gene Rayburn, Alex Trebek, Vanna White, Pat Sajak, Bob Barker, and…
By BIG RED Print this article August 1, 2005 On August first, Big RED & Shiny gathered our friends and contributors together at St. James’ Gate in Jamaica Plain for an evening of food and conversation. For many, this was…
By BIG RED Print this article July 22nd, 2005 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town: The Midway Show in the Bakalar Gallery at MassArt and ephEmera Co-curated by Helga Felleisen and Eden Reiner, GASP in Brookline.
By BIG RED Print this article This past month, a fire in Watertown changed the lives of several Boston artists and musicians. Among them was Dave Norton, a close friend of Big RED & Shiny, and a well-known artist and…
By BIG RED Print this article In the third issue of Big RED and Shiny, founding editor Sean Horton wrote: “I am not sure if any of us thought we would even make it this far.” At that time the…
By BIG RED Print this article LEF New England is now accepting proposals for the Fall 2005 Contemporary Work Fund, supporting innovative work of strong creative merit in all contemporary art disciplines, excluding filmmaking, which is supported through LEF’s Moving…
By BIG RED Print this article Kirsten A. Malone : Retrospective, a three-day exhibition, will be the first retrospective of Kirsten Malone’s strong work since her untimely death in 2004 at the age of 29. With this body of photography,…
By BIG RED & WHITE CUBES Print this article This past January, Big RED & Shiny held our first fundraiser at the Boston Center for the Arts. Along with music and performances, this event featured an exhibition on the theme…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article Looking through stacks of paintings leaning against the walls of the Brooklyn studio of John L. Moore there were several persistent forms drawn in black, painterly outline against solid red, blue or white grounds.…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article “If you look at an image of a rock and the shadow that it casts, what happens when you remove the rock and focus on the shadow? Or remove the shadow and leave the…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article Currently Rick Harlow, my next door neighbor in the Eclipse Mill artist/ loft building in North Adams, Massachusetts is spending a month among the indigenous people of Colombia. Recently, he worked for a couple…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article When Jane Farver left the position of chief curator at the Queens Museum to become director of the MIT-List Visual Arts Center in 1999, I wrote a Perspective piece for Art New England. She…
By BEN SLOAT Print this article At the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center until September 2nd is an exhibition called Cameras, Communities, Connections from a collective called ph15. The ph is an abbreviation of the word photography and 15 refers to…
By REESE INMAN Print this article While I’ve followed Corinn Flaherty’s work with interest over the past year or so, it’s apparent upon viewing her latest installation, “Personal Topography,” at the Rhys Gallery that the artistic vision and exploration has…
By MATTHEW NASH Print this article The main gallery at the RISD museum currently features the large-scale painting “Manifest Destiny” by Alexis Rockman. This emormous piece (8 by 24 feet) occupies an entire wall, and is surrounded by smaller paintings…
By JONATHAN FARDY Print this article To communicate anything in the mute medium of paint is a hard thing to do well, but speaking about communication itself through it, is a remarkable challenge. Enter Jenifer Cawley, a young painter whose…
By BIG RED Print this article Ms. July’s film has proven to be such a conversation-piece, we have two reviews. Big RED regular Christian Holland, and Big RED newbie Craig Medvecky have both offered their thoughts. ME AND YOU AND…
By HEIDI MARSTON Print this article I hear the voice in my head saying, “run”, but I don’t. I move faster, faster towards the enemy. I only see the target in my sight. I see the enemy punching and yelling,…
By KARINE JOUENNE & REESE INMAN Print this article Artist Ken Feingold, interviewed by Karine Jouenne at his New York studio in July, considers the idea of Synthetic Art an interesting and relevant curatorial proposition and sees such fundamentally hybrid…