By BIG RED June 15th, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town from Boston Young Contemporaries at 808 Gallery, Boston University. 808 Gallery, Boston University Snaps by Ben Sloat & James Manning.
By BIG RED June 9th 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Art Interactive for the opening reception of the exhibit Urban Networks. Art Interactive Images by James Manning.
By BIG RED June 16th, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the Rhys Gallery for the opening of Under the Fort. Rhys Gallery Snaps by High Ninja Aishman.
By BIG RED June 1st 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the Mills Gallery for the Artists Foundation Bake Sale- Fundraiser Artists Foundation Mills Gallery Images by James Manning.
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Art Interactive has announced that Natasha Khandekar has assumed the role of director. She takes the helm of a unique space in Cambridge’s Central Square, and a robust exhibition program. A statement from AI provides…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR The latest news from 450 Harrison is that the BF Annex/Boston Frame gallery and shop will be closing on July 15th. Although Big RED & Shiny hasn’t seen the announcement that was sent out, a…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR It is with great sadness that we announce the departure of Gallery Katz. Along with Clifford-Smith Gallery (whose closing was so rapid that Big RED failed to properly eulogize their great work! [1]), Gallery Katz…
By KATHLEEN BITETTI The revolution will not be televised Part Two- Fair Trades Means Fair Trade. There has been an explosion of art auctions to raise moneys for non-profit organizations. These organizations repeatedly ask artists to donate their art and/or…
By CHARLES GIULIANO In the late 60s and 70s, the dark ages for the arts in Boston, when the Institute of Contemporary Art was the only, struggling, act in town, Stephen D. and Susan Paine, were conspicuous for their enthusiasm…
By MATTHEW NASH A while ago I wrote a piece for Contemporary Magazine about the new ICA building and it’s potential impact on the SoWa district, which has finally been published in their 81st issue. In that piece, I wrote:…
By ROB CLIFFORD In the last issue of Big RED & Shiny, executive editor Rachel Gepner wrote of her time in the SoWa gallery/studio complex. Her piece prompted a range of responses in our Forum, and inspired Rob Clifford of…
By BIG RED May, 20th 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night out-of-town at the opening for Candice Ivy’s installation Murmur at The Old City Jail on Magazine St. in Charleston, SC as part of the Piccolo Spoleto Festival.…
By ARTHUR WHITMAN The main problem with the 2006 DeCordova Annual Exhibition, aside from its predictable unevenness, is that the work within doesn’t interrelate very well. Each of the thirteen artists selected (counting a two artist team) presents a body…
By JUDITH LEEMANN Several years ago Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois, Chicago re-staged the 1976 work Rayna by James Turrell. This installation consists of a dimly lit room with a rectangular window opening onto another room, the careful…
By MARK SNYDER I am really excited to see that there is a growing performance art scene in Boston. The Present Tense is the latest effort to gather together artists, garner space and get the word out to a performance…
Part I: Futility A few weeks ago I received an email from an artist named Matthew Hincman. It was only a few short lines about a sculpture he had installed at the Jamaica Pond, and a picture. “The sculpture…
By HEIDI MARSTON On Friday, June 6th, Sweetness, an exhibition of work in various media by 5 women artists, opened at the Sherman Gallery on the Boston University campus. The show, curated by Lynne Cooney has succeeded in creating an…
By MICAH J. MALONE 9 Evenings Reconsidered: art, theatre, and engineering is a sprawling exhibition centered around a major collaborative effort that transpired in 1966. As the catalog and the curators make clear, to reconsider these 9 evenings is not…
By STEVE AISHMAN Anyone who has a great older brother or sister knows that the defining quality of a great sibling is not if she defended me on the playground (which my older sister did) or if she loaned me…
By EAN FRICK When living in an age of over consumption we often find ourselves searching for gold among the piles of plastic. Aaron Brewer and Michael Mahalchick’s installations, currently showing at the Second Gallery, achieve this diamond in the…