By THE EDITOR Print this article (updated Fri. April 16th) Our publication schedule may seem sporadic over the next few months. During the summer months of June, July & August, we will be cutting back to one issue a month.…
By THE EDITOR Print this article According to our news sources here at Big, Red and Shiny, Dan Elias recently closed his gallery after six years of operation. Showing the work of artists like Taylor Davis and Frank Egloff among…
By THE EDITOR Print this article As a city rooted in history, the people of Boston are often deeply divided regarding the preservation of its structures. For the last year, the Gaiety Theatre at 659-665 Washington St. has faced a…
By MATTHEW GAMBER Print this article As part of their Northeast Exposure Series, the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University presents Honky Tonk: Portraits of Country Music 1972-1981. The exhibition features the work of Henry Hornstein, a New Bedford native,…
By BETH MARTIN Print this article In a society colored, shaped and devised to nurture our short attention spans, a focus on obsession is strangely refreshing. OCD (referencing Obsessive Compulsive Disorder), now showing at the Mills Gallery at Boston Center…
By DIRK ADAMS Print this article Chocolate, whiskey, and the aroma of cake and rotting meat were among the bodies of material that confronted the senses during “Corporeal Heat”, a festival of performance art featuring nine artists from Canada, Germany,…
By C. SEAN HORTON Print this article LET ME BEGIN BY ASKING YOU WHAT YOU’RE UP THESE DAYS. I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU RECENTLY CLOSED ELIAS FINE ART IN ALLSTON AFTER SIX YEARS AND THAT YOU TURNED OVER YOUR POSITION AS…
By CHRISTOPHE PEREZ Print this article Disliking the Whitney Biennial is nowadays a very common attitude and, for a critic, always a safer opinion. The prevalent argument against this biennial is actually justified: the curatorial will is hard to catch…
By LINDA PRICE-SNEDDON Print this article I wanted to update everyone with the latest news on the (e)VENT project. The response has been awesome! We already have over 60 artists that have committed to participate!!! One of the most exciting…
By WHITE CUBES Print this article Opening April 10, 2004, MASS MoCA presents “Matthew Ritchie: Proposition Player”, the first major museum exhibition of this multimedia artist’s work organized by Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. Featuring an installation of new works by…
By THE EDITOR Print this article According to the Boston Phoenix, The Medford City Council voted down the proposed Medford Arts Center by one vote in their meeting on March 16. The Arts Center would have provided stable, long-term, affordable…
By MARY FULLER Print this article The Berwick Research Institute is proud to announce the next season of its “Artist in Research” Residency Program. For the next eight months, the Berwick will sponsor four art projects that engage and involve…
By THE EDITOR Print this article (updated Wed. April 7th) Beginning in MAY a new issue of Big, Red and Shiny will be available on the 2nd and 4th Fridays of every month. The next issue — BRS Issue #5…
By THE EDITOR Print this article According to several news sources, including the New York Daily News, the Chinatown bus wars have escalated with the most recent murder of a bus driver named De Jian Chen. Apparently, it is public…
By THE EDITOR Print this article According to our news sources here at Big, Red and Shiny, Dan Elias recently closed his gallery after six years of operation. Showing the work of artists like Taylor Davis and Frank Egloff among…
By MICAH J. MALONE Print this article Spindles and Spokes: Windsor Chairs and their Legacy in America, now on display at the RISD museum, is a show of one of the most prolifically produced chairs in the last two centuries.…
By BEN SLOAT Print this article In his new “Instant Traveler” show at Clifford Smith Gallery, Youngsuk Suh displays a large-scale photographic series of magnificent national park settings in Hawaii. The stage is what one would expect in such a…
By MATTHEW GAMBER Print this article In 1975, the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House in Rochester rang a death knell on the landscape photography as popularized in the previous decades by artists like Ansel Adams, Eliot Porter,…
By TYLER CANN Print this article Some forty years ago, “Sound and Light” gallery shows were all the rage. The art world buzzed with rhetoric about pop, participation and the merging of art and technology. Synched-up multi-sensory artworks trumpeted the…
By MEG ROTZEL Print this article Many of the works you do are hand-built electronics made from vintage parts. I’m curious as to how you position your piece historically within an art world that is crushing on new medias of…