By KATHLEEN BITETTI The revolution will not be televised Part One- the Creative Economy and Cultural Development Addressing creative economy & tourism issues What the foundation of creative economy is and what communities have been left out of the discussion.…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Entering a small constructed space we encounter a work from 1994 “The Wise Man Learns from the Spider How to Spin the Web,” by the artist, Huang Yong Ping, who was born in rural Xiamen, China, in…
By MATTHEW NASH As summer approaches, so does the end of school and the ensuing conflux of graduating student exhibitions. The next few weeks will feature a great abundance of artwork showing the culmination of years of work at many…
By BIG RED April 22, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night OUT OF TOWN at Saltworks Gallery in Atlanta, GA: 60 seconds of play, curated by Avantika Bawa in conjunction with DRAIN, and Push Back by the…
By BAD AT SPORTS A mouth-less snowman seems to cry out from a turbulent ground, imploring us with unseen lips, begging for some kind of crutch upon which it could utter the words of an unknown will. Beside the snowman…
By BIG RED April 12, 2006 Candid snaps from Kelly Sherman’s artist talk at The Berwick. She is the first AIR artist for 2006, and she introduced herself and her previous work to the public as well as the project…
By JASON DEAN Gift and Commodity Transactions in Contemporary Practice, a lecture hosted by Art in General Art is not an ordinary commodity. Art is not a loaf of bread: it’s easy to figure out how much it costs to…
By KAREN SCHIFF On the opening day of Abigail Child’s exhibition of films and prints Mirror World, film theorist Laura Mulvey gave a talk at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. A coincidence of scheduling? Of course…but a highly appropriate…
By BIG RED April 21st, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at NESAD/SU for the opening of Eyegasm, the 2006 fine arts student exhibit.
By RACHEL GEPNER Under normal circumstances this piece would have appeared in the “On the Town” section of Big RED & Shiny because I didn’t intend to review the work when I arrived (or even when I left) the show.…
By BIG RED EDITORS With the launch of Geoff Edgers new blog “The Exhibitionist” via The Boston Globe, we at Big RED thought it would be a good time to look at some of our favorite art blogs from around…
By BIG RED April 28th 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Studio Soto for the opening of: Dibujo Venezuela – Drawing USA Studio Soto
By MATTHEW NASH Lounging in the cozy chairs of Emack & Bolio’s, Ravi Jain and I recently took time out to sip tea and discuss his life online. The 35-year-old MassArt grad has been making a lot of friends with…
By BIG RED April 21 & April 28, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the opening reception for graduating students at AIB. The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University
By BIG RED April 26th 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at The Rose Art Museum for the opening of two Exhibitions,Erwin Wurm: I Love My Time, I Don’t Like My Time and Sarah Walker: Paintings. Erwin…
By BIG RED NEW EDITOR Pointing out that Boston is a college town is like saying the Pope is Catholic: so redundant as to not be worth the effort. As college towns, Boston & Cambridge are prone to a peculiar…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR A follow up on a news item from last Issue 41: This past April 10th, the House Ways and Means Committee proposed a budget that would include a 6% funding increase for the Massachusetts Cultural…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Google’s occasional sprucing of their site did not liven up everyone’s internet searching experience. The most recent logo change, which the search giant goliath occasionally alters graphically to pay tribute to a significant cultural event…
By JAMES MANNING On Thursday April 27th 2006, after more than five years in the works, A Chinatown Banquet, a key component of The Chinatown Heritage Project was unveiled. The Chinatown Heritage Project is an ongoing effort to capture and…
By BIG RED April 7, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Tufts University, for the opening of a Museum School graduate thesis exhibition. The artists included were Stefanie Bruser-Smith, Brian Gershey, Nan C. Hockenbury, Thomas Marquet,…