By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR After weeks of legislation, vetoes, and overrides, the Massachusetts legislation voted to increase the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s budget by $2.45 million, bringing the fiscal year budget for 2007 to just more then $12 million. This…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Alternate Currents founders Scott Ciopolla and Tom Ciopolla have announced the closing Space 200. Alternate Currents was founded in 2004, teaming up with curator James Manning to develop a shows of local independent and ermging…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Massachusetts Institute of Technology has earned high marks for its collection and display of publicly-sited artworks throughout the campus. Public Art Review, a widely respected journal devoted to public art, has noted MIT’s public art…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR In mid-July, The Boston Globe reported that Boston’s NPR affiliate WBUR was laying off their long-time arts critic Bill Marx. They also reported that the art criticism section of their website would also be phased…
By STEVE AISHMAN View Steve Aishman’s video. Quicktime, 2mb A few months back, I was standing at the West entrance to the MFA Boston on a Wednesday at 3:50 waiting to get into the MFA for free at 4:00…
By CHARLES GIULIANO The first patent for a mechanical sewing machine was awarded to a British inventor, Thomas Saint, in 1790 but it is not known if he built a prototype. In 1834 Walter Hunt built America’s first, somewhat successful…
By MATTHEW GAMBER Here ’tis, the 46th installment (or episode, as Mr. Warmouth referred to it – you are looking at a screen). This issue of Big RED, by default, has become an unofficial ICA issue with an evaluation of…
By JASON DEAN Recently I went to the Art in General artist talk at Sara Meltzer Gallery of Eteam’s project “Montello International Airport.” I had briefly looked at Eteam’s website before I went, and saw a photo from the project…
By AVANTIKA BAWA grey|area, curated by TJ Norris at the Guestroom Gallery in Portland, Oregon is an aptly titled show, which exhibits the work of thirteen West Coast artists. The works in the show include a range of media that…
By JEREMIAS PAUL When I was child, my family traveled extensively, not just around my country of birth, Germany, but also throughout the surrounding countries that stretched from the North Sea south through the Alps and down to the Mediterranean…
By SANDRINE SCHAEFER The performance art group, TEST has once again activated our perceptions of time, space, and action with its 10th event that occurred on July 21st and 22nd at the Devanaughn Theatre in Boston. Like so many TESTS…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND I was informed that there are two types of people who go to the annual (this year being the 33rd) SIGGRAPH conference, technology people (the ones who build the hardware and write the software) and industry people…
By JAMES HULL At first after putting on a hard hat, we walked across a drawbridge of perforated metal flooring and into the new Institute of Contemporary Art. I did feel like we entered the building through the left hip…
By ARIEL PITTMAN Founded in 1936, the Institute of Contemporary Art is one of the oldest non-collecting contemporary arts institutions in the United States. We strive to share the pleasures of reflection, inspiration, provocation, and imagination that contemporary art offers…