By MATTHEW NASH Recently, through somewhat dubious circumstances, I was able to climb the stairs at 684 Washington Street and revisit Oni Gallery. I guess I am a bit of a broken record, but as I stood there I found…
By KATHLEEN BITETTI Why every artist should know who all their elected officials are. As a working artist, as an activist, and also as the executive director for the Artists Foundation, I learned that elected officials are very interested in…
By STEVE AISHMAN I am writing this letter to Big Red because I realized the other day that I am stalking Bill Arning, the curator of the MIT List Visual Arts Center. I love the work he curates at various…
By CAROLYN FRANKLIN Have you ever judged a book by it’s cover? Sure you have, it’s a part of life. If no one judged books by their cover, there would be no need for Barnes & Noble to construct such…
By BEN SLOAT Rarely does an art exhibition speak to the importance and advocacy of art itself. Temporary Walls, curated by Heidi Marston and Lydia Ruby, on exhibit at the Rhys Gallery until March 4th, is a show of work…
By MICAH J. MALONE Graffiti art has been infiltrating its way into the “official” art world for more than two decades now. With artists like Jean Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, to name only two of the most well known,…
By RACHEL GEPNER I have an image burned into my memory of a seafoam green floor and a pink face. I think of the 80s. Excess. Commercialism. Poor packaging. Bad design. Unflattering lighting. Shitty taste. Cultural decay. Death and meaninglessness.…
By PHAEDRA SHANBAUM As the only Boston representatives of the newly opened Whitney Biennial “Day for Night”, I thought it appropriate to give local filmmakers Louise Bourque and Joe Gibbons some much-deserved attention. I asked new Big RED & Shiny…
By MATTHEW NASH In our efforts to understand and accurately represent the full scope of our art scene, Big RED & Shiny sent a survey to the commercial galleries of New England. About half of those contacted replied, and the…
By BIG RED February 8th, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the opening of Harvey Loves Harvey “Pseudo-science For a Better Tomorrow” at Fitchburg State College. Harvey Loves Harvey Fitchburg State College Images by James…
By BIG RED February 19th. 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the Enormous Room in Central Sq. at the Berwick Research Institutes’, “nothing fancy- a chance to sit back in psuedo-Moraccan-Manhattan-Orientalist-Chick-Splendor for a good cause and…
By BIG RED Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at The Rhys Gallery for the opening of “Detained Youth”. Rhys Gallery Images by Thomas Guistainis.
By BIG RED February 27th, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town of “Singing the House” by Artist William Pope.L and members of the Manhattan Group MIT William Pope.L on Artnet William Pope.L on TenByTen Images by James…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Due to impending cuts in the state budget, Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has recommended that money to fund the Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC) be cut. A plea from Dan Hunter, Executive Director for Massachusetts Advocates…
By CHARLES GIULIANO With the exception of the occasional great painting, usually Northern European, it is generally thought that the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston missed the boat on acquiring 20th century art. Particularly when compared to its renowned depth…
By MATTHEW GAMBER I have had the opportunity, in close proximity, to be on both sides of the application process. If you’ve read though parts of Issue 35, and you are unfazed by the articles on Art and Academia, here…
By ANNEKA LENSSEN February brings a (free) looped screening of works by video art titans Francis Alys, David Claerbout, Joan Jonas, Isaac Julien, William Kentridge, Pipilotti Rist, and Anri Sala to Harvard Square. Just pop out of the T station…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND The irony of much public art, especially that which came in the last third of the 20th century, is that it is hardly public at all. It does not engage the intended audience; it is too abstruse…
By KATHRYN ADA DUTOIT This communiqué from Ralph Steadman accompanies “Drawing Breath: A Retrospective Whisper,” currently on view at the Art Institute of Boston: The last time I was in Boston I was trying to avoid the airport police while…
By LUANNE STOVALL After, the current exhibition at the Mills Gallery curated by Laura Donaldson, seeks to initiate a conversation about our pivotal responses to Loss. Speaking mostly in distanced elegiac tones, the exhibition stakes its primary ground in the…