By BENJAMIN TIVEN Print this article The Photographic Resource Center is currently presenting a show in conjunction with the Boston CyberArts Festival calledLand/Mark: Locative Media and Photography through May 5th. The show includes four photographers (one of whom is actually…
Yearly Archives: 2005
By DINA DEITSCH Print this article Man walks into a room… In the novel by the same title a blank room is the loose metaphor for a mind stripped of adult memory. The book ponders the stability and meaning of…
By JED SPEARE Print this article When Pope John Paul II died , there sounded in the city of Warsaw the air-raid, civil defense siren for over one minute. I lost count of how many iterations there were, perhaps fifteen.…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Print this article It seems as if the drama around the theft of artwork from the Gardner Museum will never end. This past week, on March 23rd, Myles Conner was arrested in Natick in connection…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article Charles Giuliano is willing to sacrifice his liver for a good interview. Recently, he began publishing his Beer and Burgers series, in which he sits down with those involved in Boston’s arts and takes…
By BEN SLOAT Print this article Currently showing at the Tufts University Tisch Gallery is an exhibition by the photographer Lauren Greenfield titled “Girl Culture.” Greenfield photographs girls and young women in various guises such as beauty queens, fashionistas, victims…
By REESE INMAN Print this article The artists of “Incremental Disruption” comprise a fascinating triumvirate. NAO director Karine Jouenne’s curatorial statement references technology writer Michael Schrage’s influential arguments for the transformational power of small, incremental changes, stating that the exhibition…
By ANNEKA LENSSEN Print this article BRI:AIR, a Retrospective Projects from the Berwick Research Institute’s Artist in Research Program Mills Gallery at Boston Center for the Arts February 4 – March 27 Curator: Meg Rotzel Exhibition Design: +/- (Ben Durrell…
By WILLIAM YOUNGWORTH Print this article Sunday, March 18, 1990 is a famous date. On that day, the biggest art heist in U.S. history occurred at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, with over $300 million in paintings lost. Works by…
By MATTHEW NASH Print this article With three years behind it, Gallery Katz is middle-aged by SoWa standards. Started by Drew Katz, a RISD grad originally from Kansas, this gallery showcases work that often stands out from the surrounding venues.…
By BIG RED Print this article February 18, 2005 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Art Interactive for The Paper Sculpture Show.
By BIG RED Print this article Saturday, March 5, 2005 Candid snaps from the opening of Liz Nofziger and Peter Pizzi collaborative interactive installation Pe(s)t at the Atlantic Works Gallery in East Boston.
By BIG RED Print this article Friday, March 4, 2005 Candid snaps of the members of Sifting the Inner Belt performing the instructional work Pause during FIrst Friday openings on Thayer Street.
By BIG RED Print this article Only a few short weeks ago, Mr. Geoff Hargadon was kind enough to include work in our Big RED: Green event. Not a moment too soon, now that fame has grabbed him by the…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Print this article W. W. Marquis de Sade D.? * ONI art-performance space will never open again. No, you will not be seeing the scintillating opener Quadrosonic Porn, a 3-screen video extravaganza from NY. In…
By THOMAS DORAN Print this article Fish begin to rot in the head. On a fresh framed partition sheathed with ash plywood Charles Parker Boggs has laid up caricatures, a psycho-tableau, down the center of the gallery. There are maybe…
By STEVE AISHMAN Print this article I once met a man who collected Beanie Babies. He had thousands of them; ranging from inexpensive Scorch to ultra-collectablePeanut. Like any good collector, he insisted on showing virtually every one of them to…
By REESE INMAN Print this article Wake up, Boston. Shed the winter lethargy, stretch your limbs, send a few leaves in the direction of the sun and go see “Office Plants.” Bearing titles such as Canna adaptus electric (120V) and…
By JAMES NADEAU Print this article Consider the body and its relation to technology and art. Does technology bridge the obtrusive gap between one’s consciousness and the art one creates? The brush, the fragment of charcoal, a stick of graphite,…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article Redefining Boston Expressionism Asked if he is a Boston Expressionist in a tradition that started most notably with Hyman Bloom, Jack Levine and Karl Zerbe back in the 1930s, the artist/ painter Gerry Bergstein…