By MARRIKKA TROTTER Architecture is the expression of the very being of societies….In practice, only the ideal being of society, that which orders and prohibits with authority, expresses itself in what are architectural compositions in the strict sense of the…
By MICAH J. MALONE Mel Ziegler and Kate Ericson produced some of the most important and challenging work of their generation during their ten-year collaboration between 1985-1995. The largest survey to date of their often overlooked and complex production opened…
By BIG RED January 27th 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Art Interactive for the opening reception of Collision 9. Links: Art Interactive Images by James Manning.
By BIG RED February 3rd 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the First Friday openings on Thayer Street and the Mills Gallery at the BCA
By BIG RED January 27th, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at CONTAMINATE: TEST PERFORMANCE images by Michael Schur
By BIG RED January 28, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the grand opening of the new Second Gallery in the Distillery Building, South Boston. Second Gallery Images by Matthew Nash & James Manning.
By BIG RED January 31st 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the reception for “Living in Motion: Design and Architecture for Flexible Dwelling.” This is the final exhibit opening at the ICA Boston at its Boylston…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR The documentary “Zizek!” has been released by Hidden Driver Productions and Documentary Campaign, a non-profit working to combine progressive politics with artistic filmmaking. Hartford’s Real Art Ways made itself the first New England venue for…
By CHARLES GIULIANO January 23, 2006 The initial phone call came back in December. An invitation from the artist Arnold Trachtman to come view a large triptych “Cabarett, 1927” which he worked on from 1993-1995 but had just finished. It…
By KATHLEEN BITETTI Greetings to all. I am honored to have been asked to write for Big Red & Shiny, and rather than duplicate my FYI column in artsMEDIA, I am going to write a column that addresses timely public…
By MICAH J. MALONE As Big, Red and Shiny enters year three I am reminded of our first issue two years ago. Sean Horton was editor then and asked me to write about the “Rare Vermeer” that was then on…
By THOMAS MARQUET Nayda Collazo-Llorens’ Mindscapes is a conceptually coherent and thoughtfully installed exhibition. However, despite the quality of its assembly, it is of limited impact as a whole. Its efforts to create a Gestamkunstwerk work best as a well-conceived…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND “You are a brave man,” Raishad Glover said to me with subtle sympathy as he wheeled me, head first, into the Coach TV performance space at last weekend’s performance art festival in Fort Point, aptly called Contaminate.…
By MATTHEW NASH My first impression of “We Made It”, the first exhibition for fledgling Second Gallery, was: “I’m too old to get this show.” No, Charles Giuliano has not hijacked my body, and yes, I am still under thirty,…
By ROSIE BRANSON GILL Being semi-exposed is both daring and cautious. Like dipping one toe into a cold lake, it permits us to experiment safely. We take comfort in the knowledge that we never have to commit to complete, naked…
By BIG RED STAFF PREDICTIONS by MATTHEW NASH PREDICTIONS by MICAH J. MALONE PREDICTIONS by RACHEL GEPNER PREDICTIONS by MATTHEW GAMBER It may be Big RED’s second birthday, but we are not about looking back and harping on the…
By BIG RED January 19, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at The New England School of Art and Design at Suffolk University for the opening of “Martin Mugar: Pulled Dots” and “James Kalambokis: Final Edit” Photos…
By BIG RED January 7, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Artist Foundation Gallery for Mary Omalley “Curious Intimacies”, “This is Not My Mother’s Photo Album: New Photography Works” by Adrianne & Jamie Fernadez, and “Abstracted-…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR According to the Associated Press, the thief of a 16th century, gold-plated sculpture titled “Saliera” has turned himself in to police in Austria. The sculpture was recovered near the town of Zwettl, north of Vienna,…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Back in issue #25 we said goodbye to Big RED’s editor-in-chief Matthew Gamber as he left Boston for Savannah and a cushy teaching job. His 18 issues with Big RED were full of growth and…