By HEIDI MARSTON When I first started writing this I had trouble putting into words what it exactly it was that made me so psyched to be a contestant on Art Show Down. So I wrote an article and was…
By BIG RED Thursday, November 2nd, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University for the opening of PRC/POV Photography Now and the Next 30 Years.
By BIG RED September 20, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at The Rose Art Museum for the opening reception of two exhibitions: Surveillance and Power: Performance and Surveillance in Video Art and Clare Rojas: Hope Springs…
By BIG RED September 22, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Axiom
By BIG RED September 30th, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the Artist Foundation for Bruce Myren, Jennifer Nazzaro, and Candice Ivy. Artists Foundation
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR North Adams will host it’s first open studios event on October 14-15. Head out to the Berkshires and check out the thriving art community in western Massachusetts. From the press release: Mass MoCA will serve…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR The artists Alexi Antoniadis’ and Nico Stone’s first show ever, Refuge and Prospect at UMass Boston’s Harbor Gallery has met much more controversy than they ever imagined. The controversy, however, has nothing to do with…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR In a press conference last week, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston announced the transfer of thirteen antiquities to Italy via the Ministry of Culture. The objects in question had been acquired through deals stemming…
By ANONYMOUS ART DEALER Have you ever wondered how the gallery business works? Are you an artist who wants to sell your work, but have questions or concerns? Are you a collector looking for the best deals? Our anonymous art…
By KATHLEEN BITETTI What makes a scam a scam? As a continuation in the spirit of my column on fair trade means fair trade — I want to first alert artists to a scam that has come to my attention.…
By THOMAS MARQUET #4: Thomas Marquet’s comic strip about life in a gallery. “The White Cube” comics can be read in series in the Big RED & Shiny Collections section. Thomas Marquet is a cartoonist, sculptor, and critic, based in…
By MATTHEW NASH The American childhood is a much discussed institution, often held up as something to be protected against the loss of innocence that is adulthood. Thus we put warnings on music and ratings on movies, and spoon-feed Disney…
By FRANK PEREZ I’m new to Boston, been here a little more than a week. Before I showed up, I had heard about Newbury Street as the place where art is shown, but it turned out to be that, for…
By JEREMIAS PAUL You are being watched. We all are. As I write this in the solitary confinement of my apartment, I am reminded, by the sight of the ominous black ball attached to the building adjacent to mine, that…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND The best way to critique the absurd is with the absurd; the more flamboyant the critique, usually, the more potent the message.CoachTV, the Raishad Glover and Emily Eastridge “enterprise,” wastes few opportunities for flamboyance in The Buffet…
