By BIG RED Print this article October 22, 2005 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Fort Point Channel 319 Gallery for the opening of “Contained”.
By BIG RED Print this article October 21, 2005. Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Art Interactive for the opening of “Glowlab: Open Lab”
By BIG RED Print this article The deadline for the first ever Big RED & Shiny design competition is coming up. We are still looking for your vision of what this site can be, so send it today! As you…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Print this article Chicago is the windy city, full of mid-western angst and fresh-faced art students wandering out of The School of the Art Institute, looking for their place in the world. There is a…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article The remarkable, panoramic, film inspired paintings of Damian Loeb first came to my attention through the solo exhibition “Public Domain” at Mary Boone Gallery in 2001. This initial exposure was benign as I was…
By BIG RED Many tenants of 450 Harrison Ave came into the studio to find a new lease shoved unceremoniously under the door. On December 1st rent is going up. BIG RED isn’t very good at math, but it looks…
By RACHEL GEPNER It would be hard to have missed the recent proliferation of digital photography. It’s even at WalMart. Inevitably there has been an equally large upsurge in the number of crappy digital photographs, but there are also a…
By MARINA VERONICA Thomas Hirschhorn’s “Utopia, Utopia = One World, One War, One Army, One Dress”, the latest exhibition at the ICA, looks like an over-stocked department store distastefully promoting camouflage. Simulated displays of commodities surrounded by a decor of…
By ANNEKA LENSSEN Let’s say that every text, including an art exhibit, has an ‘ideal reader.’ This ideal reader is the subject positioned by the text’s particular modes of address. In the case of an art show, these would be…
By BIG RED AN INTERVIEW WITH KIRSTEN FORKERT by RACHEL GEPNER THE ARTIST IN RESEARCH RESIDENCY by MATTHEW NASH THE BERWICK IN BOSTON by CHRISTIAN HOLLAND THE REVOLVING DINNER by MICAH MALONE For an Institute dedicated to supporting “concept-driven…
By BIG RED October, 2005 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Art Interactive for Bollywood Breakdown. —- Art Interactive
By BIG RED Sunday, October 2, 2005 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at The Berwick Research Institute’s Revolving Dinner fundraiser. Diners were divided into 6 groups and traveled among 6 houses in Jamaica Plain. Each house featured…
By BIG RED Sunday, October 2, 2005 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at The Berwick Research Institute’s Revolving Dinner fundraiser. Diners were divided into 6 groups and traveled among 6 houses in Jamaica Plain. Each house featured…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR University of Wisconsin – Green Bay Chancellor Bruce Shepard recently defended his decision to remove an artwork by Chicago-based designer Al Brandtner from the exhibition “Axis of Evil: A Secret History of Sin” with the…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Regular Big RED columnist Charles Giuliano has recently announced the launch of his new website Maverick-Arts to supplant his long-standing email publication. The new site features archives of all of Giuliano’s past articles (200+ at…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR The Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, Massachusetts, has announced the launch of a new program. The Artists Professional Toolbox (APT) is designed to empower emerging and practicing artists to succeed in the business aspects of…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Moments after leaving the Thomas Hirschhorn exhibition “Utopia, Utopia=One World, One War, One Army, One Dress,” which will be on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston through January 16, 2006, I encountered a woman passing…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Over the years, some of my Beer and Burger meetings with artist Martin Mugar have been epic. Early on, when we first met, there was a hilarious gonzo evening, with copious vino, at the elegant Algonquin Club,…
By RACHEL GEPNER Last week a writer sent me a copy of Samson Projects’ press release from the show Off My Biscuit, Destroy the District and a note saying, “I’ve never seen it’s kind before but THIS IS ART WRITING.”…
By THOMAS DORAN This Thayer street show is just what we’ve had coming to us: Incendiary broadcast with a week left to go. Below is the Samson Projects press release in its entirety: —- “Yo Camilo, what up with this…