By BIG RED Print this article June 3, 2005 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town outside the SOWA galleries at 450 Harrison, and shots from You are My Secret, at Clifford Smith Gallery, curated by Youngsuk Suh.
By BIG RED Print this article We at Big RED love to be informed. We like postcards, press releases, announcements, small care packages and checks written to ‘cash’. For those of you who wish to send these things, we now…
By BIG RED Print this article ASPECT, The Chronicle of New Media Art recently announced the release of their fifth issue, titled “Joie De Vivre”. Editor Michael Mittelman says of the new issue: The morose trend that seems to have…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article Because of the daunting exchange of dollars for euros, for the first time in fifteen years, Charles Giuliano opted not to make the annual trip to Europe. Instead he and his wife, Astrid, opted…
By DINA DEITSCH Print this article Sensitivity awareness seemingly grew with the speed and ferocity of the internet bubble during 1990s. Not to say that the emotional bubble has since burst or that things have changed, but no one can…
By MARINA VERONICA Print this article In 1938, Victor Vasarely, a Hungarian-born artist, painted “Zebra” – claiming that the optical illusion generated from the black and white pattern on a two-dimensional surface was the objective. Although Vasarely is considered the…
By RACHEL GEPNER Print this article When Leslie Hall wanted to fund a project and needed people to work with she “looked around and asked, ‘What do my friends and I all have in common? Well, we’re fat.'” And Fat…
By KARINE JOUENNE & REESE INMAN Print this article Over the next few months, Big RED is proud to present a series of essays by Jouenne and Inman as they develop a language and a history of Synthetic Art. –…
By MATTHEW NASH Print this article To be a working and showing artist is a tricky endeavor. It requires a lot of attention to details, of both the creative and social varieties, and a minimum working knowledge of the systems…
By BEN SLOAT Print this article As a city of world-class universities and art institutions, Boston attracts a wide variety of distinguished members of the art world to speak about their work. Over the last several years, Harvard has hosted…
By BIG RED Print this article April 22 – May 8, 2005 Candid snaps from many of the openings and events of Boston CyberArts 2005.
By BIG RED Print this article April 28, 2005 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Edible Art, a fundraiser for the scholarship fund at Lesley University. Edible Art was held this year at the Skywalk of the…
By BIG RED Print this article May 13, 2005 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the opening for Word of Mouth/Works on Paper at Rhys Gallery, located at 70 Northampton St., #105, Boston.
By BIG RED Print this article April 28th, 2005 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town from the off-site reception for Tim Saltarelli’s Velodrome, in conjunction with In the End, Maybe It was Never Even There.
By BIG RED Print this article According to Reuters, thirty-two works by Jackson Pollock, created between 1946-49, before his meteoric rise to fame, were uncovered in a Long Island warehouse. The works were found by a filmmaker, Alex Matter, who…
By BIG RED Print this article Last week, the North Adams city council voted to dismiss a proposal submitted by councilor Robert R. Moulton Jr. seeeking to prohibit any display of “nude or partially nude female or male” where it…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article Mary Ellen Strom: The Nudes Judi Rotenberg Gallery Through May 7 Corporate Commands Space 200 Through April 29 Denise Marika: Detritus Howard Yezerski Gallery Through May 24 Some time back we wrote a Beer…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article While walking through the National Gallery some years ago from some distance across a large space I spotted an unfamiliar synthetic cubist painting from Picasso’s studio series. From afar there was something off about…
By JONATHAN FARDY Print this article Every spring Boston enters its “congrats to the grads” phase. You start getting invites or evites to graduation parties. You buy the same cards, recite the platitudes, and the ubiquitous “what now” finds its…
By MATTHEW NASH Print this article Judi Rotenberg Gallery feels a bit eerie and subversive these days. The windows are blacked-out, labeled only with the title of the current show: “The Nudes”. The gallery itself is as dark as a…