By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR A local Boston arts television segment was pulled from its regular evening time slot due to its content covering a local art exhibition that represented the nude form. Art 617, produced by B Roll Films,…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR During the past year, the U.S. Copyright Office conducted a study and organized a number of public discussions about the potential change in current copyright law that surrounds the use of what is known as…
By CHARLES GIULIANO “I am attending this conference under an assumed name,” Professor Ellen Landau of Case Western Reserve University informed the audience during a session “Jackson Pollock’s Afterlife” during the annual meeting of the College Art Association, in Boston,…
By MATTHEW NASH Recently, through somewhat dubious circumstances, I was able to climb the stairs at 684 Washington Street and revisit Oni Gallery. I guess I am a bit of a broken record, but as I stood there I found…
By KATHLEEN BITETTI Why every artist should know who all their elected officials are. As a working artist, as an activist, and also as the executive director for the Artists Foundation, I learned that elected officials are very interested in…
By STEVE AISHMAN I am writing this letter to Big Red because I realized the other day that I am stalking Bill Arning, the curator of the MIT List Visual Arts Center. I love the work he curates at various…
By CAROLYN FRANKLIN Have you ever judged a book by it’s cover? Sure you have, it’s a part of life. If no one judged books by their cover, there would be no need for Barnes & Noble to construct such…
By BEN SLOAT Rarely does an art exhibition speak to the importance and advocacy of art itself. Temporary Walls, curated by Heidi Marston and Lydia Ruby, on exhibit at the Rhys Gallery until March 4th, is a show of work…
By MICAH J. MALONE Graffiti art has been infiltrating its way into the “official” art world for more than two decades now. With artists like Jean Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, to name only two of the most well known,…
By RACHEL GEPNER I have an image burned into my memory of a seafoam green floor and a pink face. I think of the 80s. Excess. Commercialism. Poor packaging. Bad design. Unflattering lighting. Shitty taste. Cultural decay. Death and meaninglessness.…
By PHAEDRA SHANBAUM As the only Boston representatives of the newly opened Whitney Biennial “Day for Night”, I thought it appropriate to give local filmmakers Louise Bourque and Joe Gibbons some much-deserved attention. I asked new Big RED & Shiny…
By MATTHEW NASH In our efforts to understand and accurately represent the full scope of our art scene, Big RED & Shiny sent a survey to the commercial galleries of New England. About half of those contacted replied, and the…