By MATTHEW GAMBER Today was Sunday; this is 41, our next offering. I have liked them both, simultaneously. Some of you, no doubt, will be reading this issue asynchronously with how we have experienced it: on the brink of having…
By GERALD ROJEK When asked to review the Frank Stella: 1958 exhibition at the Sackler Museum at Harvard University, I kept asking myself whether the current generation of painters would be interested in Frank Stella’s work, let alone a body…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Deep Wounds is nothing new from Brian Knep, though it was a commissioned piece, and—to his credit—by both the Office for the Arts of Harvard University and the Department of Systems Biology of Harvard Medical School. If…
By PHAEDRA SHANBAUM A year ago, American Repertory Theater director, Robert Woodruff, approached Boston-based video artist Denise Marika about a possible collaboration on an unwritten project by Highway Ulysses playwright Rinde Eckert. Marika, an artist who usually creates her work…
By ERIN M. SADLER Contemporary Fine Artists are unconsciously and strategically placed in the position of an economical base for a multi-billion dollar industry. Veiled by way of ideology, Art maintains earning an actual income convincingly impossible for the Artist.…
By BIG RED March 25th, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town for the opening of the second exhibit at Second Gallery: “I Love You More Than Life (and That’s Not Saying Much)” by Goody-B. Wiseman and “A…
By BIG RED March 21st, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town for the opening of “Projecting in Light” A multimedia installation with Bebe Beard and Linda Leslie Brown. The exhibit is at the Casella Gallery at Wentworth…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Documentary filmmaker Rebecca Dreyfus’ Stolen, will be featured as part of the 4th Annual Film Festival of Boston this April. Stolen recounts the story of 1990 art heist from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Among…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR This past month, the New York State Supreme Court dismissed a case contesting the ethics of street photography and whether it violates the rights of those individuals photographed. Erno Nussenzweig of Union City, New Jersey,…
By BIG RED The Big RED Anti-telethon is underway, and now is your chance to support our little pink website. It doesn’t take much, just a few dollars from you, for us to continue bringing coverage of the arts in…
By LUANNE STOVALL Editor’s note: This piece is the first in a series of articles concerned with a new model for art education. In response to the questions submitted to Big RED writers concerning the role of art in academia,…
By KATHLEEN BITETTI An interview with a true Citizen Artist Sand T is an artist, activist, and founder of artSPACE@16. She has been doing some amazing community building for artists and the arts in Malden, MA. She has founded a…
By MICAH J. MALONE Take a stroll through our new issue and you will be impressed with some new updates. For one, take a quick look through our LINKS section, which our publisher has updated and formatted quite impressively. Here…
By CHARLES GIULIANO There was a circus like ambiance last Sunday when I attended a spate of openings in a cluster of galleries at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut. I downloaded directions from Mapquest as it had…
By MICAH J. MALONE March 8th marked the last day the MFA screened the fabulous documentary Zizek!. With an addictive speech pattern where the Slovenian thinker seems to literally breathe Lacan and Marx, Slavoj Zizek has acquired a major following…
By STEVE AISHMAN “I found the Palace of Green Porcelin, when we approached it about noon, deserted and falling into ruin. Only ragged vestiages of glass remained in its windows, and great sheets of the green facing had fallen away…
By JAMES MANNING I am a member of the Institute for Infinitely Small Things. Anyone can join. There is no secret handshake, no magic decoder rings, and no membership dues. Many different people have been involved at one point or…
By BIG RED March 16th, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the grand opening of Space 186. The new joint gallery space between Axiom and Zeitgiest. The first exhibit is “A Means of Illumination” by Allison…
By BIG RED March 18th, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Studio Soto for the video screening “One Night Stand”. Studio Soto
By BIG RED March 11th. 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED afternoon on-the-town at the Artist Foundation Gallery in South Boston for the opening of three solo exhibits : Hiroko Kikuchi “Skinshipu”, Charlie Collidge’s “The Office” and Liz Nofziger’s…