By MATTHEW NASH Print this article For the next month, the gallery at The Distillery in South Boston is home to the abstract works of Patrick Maloney and Michael Mullaney. At times bright and colorful, sometimes somber and muted, always…
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By MICAH J. MALONE Print this article The brand new gallery GASP, founded by Magda Campos-Pons, has opened in Brookline and should be a venue to watch in the coming year. For the opening debut, Evelyn Rydz has assembled Blurring…
By BIG RED Print this article Following up on a previous news story, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has been criticzed by the The Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD), for having loaned 21 of its 36 Monet paintings…
By BIG RED Print this article Are you an upstart artist just getting going in the beginning of your career, only to find you should be concerned about retirement? Do you lack the investment capital because you’re using it next…
By BIG RED Print this article This past July, Dr. Steven Kurtz, member of the performance-based Critical Art Ensemble was arraigned on four counts of mail and wire fraud, and, if convicted, could serve up to 80 years in federal…
By MATTHEW GAMBER Print this article What does it mean to understand the concept of place and how do we define it? Cultural essayist J. B. Jackson described the origin of the idea in our modern lexicon — to define…
By ANNEKA LENSSEN Print this article Here in town this summer, Company One staged their take on Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange. The play, modified from Burgess’s own stage play, was produced at the Boston Center for the Arts. Company…
By NATALIE LOVELESS Print this article Let me begin with a quotation: What abstraction once tried to pull off is in fact being accomplished before our very eyes: the end of REPRESENTATIVE art and the substitution…of a PRESENTATIVE art…. (a)…
By BIG RED Print this article TOM RIDGE’S THE VILLAGE by MATTHEW NASH MOTION SICKNESS & THE BOURNE SUPREMACY by JASON DEAN SPIDERMAN 2: THE CHRISTIAN HERO by BEN SLOAT SCI-FI TRADITION & THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK by MATTHEW NASH…
By BIG RED Print this article Many former industrial towns over the past fifty years have experienced slow deaths. When the main employer for the town shuts down it slowly tugs the supporting social and economic climate into its vortex,…
By BIG RED PUBLISHER Print this article That’s right, more new editors for Big RED! Starting with Issue #9, we are proud to announce that the team of Christophe Perez and April Julich Perez will be joining Big RED and…
By NATHAN LEWIS Print this article This season at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, a large-scale exhibition of the work of Matthew Ritchie is an astounding accomplishment of mental power, organization, and breadth. The exhibition is comprised of canvas…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Print this article I first met Fereshteh Toosi and Carolyn Lambert after a presentation they gave at the The Berwick Research Institute in late June. During this presentation, they handed out a numerically based questionnaire, asking all…
By ROY STANFIELD Print this article Marjetica Potrc’s Urgent Architecture at the MIT List Visual Arts Center is so practical and so “green” that it would be very difficult to distinguish this exhibition from what one would find in a…
By CHRISTOPHE PEREZ Print this article Two current major exhibitions in Boston feature artists that can be regarded as outsiders: Kai Althoff at the ICA, Boston, and Barry McGee at the Rose Art Museum, Waltham. Although it is not obvious…
By KIMBERLY POTVIN Print this article Although it is difficult, let’s be realistic. There are two primary goals that every artist has while struggling through the mish-mash, aptly titled, “graduate school.” The first, and most important achievement is to be…
By MICAH MALONE Print this article MJM: In your essay for the last issue of Big Red and Shiny you use Eve Sussman’s video and the Nicholas Berg beheading tape to frame your argument. I’m wondering if you could expand…
By NATALIE LOVELESS Print this article After a series of interviews with local performance artists and organizers, as well as attending all the performance events I could manage over the past few months, I sat down to write something about…
By BIG RED Print this article Having failed to deliver the needed revenue to cover expenses of operation, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has laid off 23 staff members thoughout various departments in an attempt to balance the budget…
By BIG RED Print this article We are proud to announce that we have launched a new and improved FORUM here at Big RED. It is a free, perl-based forum called YABB (Yet Another Bulletin Board) that was recommended by…