By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article Speed, Style and Beauty: Cars from the Ralph Lauren Collection Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Curated by Darcy Kuronen March 6 through July 3, 2005 Usually I enjoy tuning in to Emily Rooney who…
Yearly Archives: 2005
By GUIDO CATHERINE Print this article I am selling my day, March 19th, on eBay. Why? Because March 15th seemed like a bad idea. I will be starting with my breakfast, then dividing the day into blocks of times and…
By JESSICA HUTFLESS Print this article My first reaction to “War Games”, an exhibit of photographs by Stephen Jacobs taken of WWII reenactors, was one of disorientation. I knew nothing of what the show was about when I first walked…
By ANNEKA LENSSEN Print this article Currently up at the ICA is Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists, a show organized by Matthew Higgs as part of the Independent Curators International stable of cutting edge and affordable shows. The…
By BIG RED Print this article Boston may be small, but it certainly has a lot going on. These past few weeks have seen a wide variety of openings and events, and we at Big RED have done our best…
By BIG RED Print this article It was a sunny Friday afternoon when the phone rang at the Big RED offices in Jamaica Plain. On the other end of the line was Tim Bailey from Oni Gallery, calling with a…
By MATTHEW NASH Print this article This Valentines Day, Big RED & Shiny has it’s first birthday. That’s right, our little pink website is now a year old, and we can now allow ourselves the indulgence of looking back on…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Print this article Three years ago, Jason Asselin and Marybeth Mungovan, both 2001 graduates, responded to an open call by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) for a site-specific work to enhance the in-progress Boston…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article Beer and Burgers With: Camilo Alvarez, director of Samson Projects Currently showing: iDominicanzo- The New Dominican Wave in Art This piece launches a new series “Beer and Burgers With…” For several years I have…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article Pretty Sweet: The Sentimental Image in Contemporary Art DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park Including: Leika Akiyama, Ilona Anderson, Robert Arnold, Doug Bell, Kathleen Bitetti, Dana C. Chandler, Jr. (Akin Duro), Cynthia Constentino, Christine Couture,…
By BEN SLOAT Print this article The Museum of Fine Arts currently has a photography show tucked away in the Japanese print gallery called Photographs by Hiroshi Sugimoto: The Sylvan Barnet and William Burto Collection. Though it is surprising to…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Print this article Copying something creates a fake. Creating that fake object can be quite simple, you need only find an original and copy it, bearing in mind that he closer the semblance to the original, the…
By BIG RED Print this article January 22, 2005 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the opening of “!Dominicanazo!” at Samson Projects.
By BIG RED Print this article Then again, Picasso was actually the Picasso of Henry Ford’s day, so the title of this news item is misleading and wrong. Perhaps a decent adjustment would be to say that Lee Iacocca was…
By BIG RED Print this article On January 28, 2005, Big RED and Shiny will host our first fundraising event at the Boston Center for the Arts Mills Gallery (539 Tremont Street in Boston’s South End). Titled Big RED :…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article Restorying Chelsea Creek: 100 Views, Part One Atlantic Works: A Collaborative Space for Art and Ideas 80 Border Street East Boston For info and hours: Stacy Chacker 617 567 5882 Ext. 241 Through January…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Print this article I was suspicious when I walked into the opening, the gallery turned into a discotèque, bass pumping, dimmed lighting, a video projection—presumably of Caleb Weintraub’s—projected on a wall. Galerie Swanström is a newbie in…
By ANNEKA LENSSEN Print this article I went to see work by Natalie Loveless and Christopher Gardner, winners of the Bromfield Art Gallery’s 2004 SOLO Competition (selected by MIT’s List Center’s Bill Arning), late Saturday afternoon, as the first flakes…