By MICAH J. MALONE Print this article Perhaps ever since the inception of conceptual art many artists have insisted on using whatever medium necessary to achieve an idea. Not willing to assign themselves to a singular medium and become hostage…
By ANNEKA LENSSEN Print this article “Cut” works gently. None of the works are quite human-scaled. The effect is that of an alien and enchanting terrain, parts Lilliputian and parts Brobdingnagian.* For Inhabitat XI, Chris Nau drew on and cut…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Print this article Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the undisputed kings of construction paper animation chose not to create “Team America: World Police” with their favorite medium or even live actors, but marionettes. Puppets, which look remarkably…
By CHRISTOPHE PEREZ Print this article One of the most intriguing yet compelling art moments of this Fall has been Huyghe + Corbusier: Harvard Project. The event, meant to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Carpenter Center for the Visual…
By MATTHEW NASH Print this article In the last issue of Big RED, I reviewed the exhibition Intimachine at Art Interactive. During the opening, I was introduced to the artist Brian Knep, whose work is included in the show, as…
By BIG RED Print this article December 3, 2004 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at SoWa First Friday.
By BIG RED Print this article The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum announced the selection of Renzo Piano and the Renzo Piano Building Workshop to plan and design a new building on the Museum’s property. The structure will meet the physical…
By JESSICA POSER Print this article The Artists Foundation in the South End presents three solo shows, Free Translation a sculpture installation by Phyllis Ewen, Just Keep Drawing a collection of drawings by Ria Brodell, and Letters in a Coma…
By BIG RED Print this article November 19, 2004 Candid photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at GALLERY for the opening of EXHIBITION
By BIG RED Print this article On November 20th, in momentous fanfare, the permanent home of the Museum of Modern Art, the David and Peggy Rockefeller Gallery Building, reopened for the first time since its extened facelift. The $425 million…
By BIG RED Print this article In January of 2005, Big RED and Shiny will host our first fundraising event at the Boston Center for the Arts Mills Gallery. We have learned a lot from this past election, and know…
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…
