By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR College entrepreneur, Alex Tew, of Wiltshire, England, has auctioned off the final 1000 pixels on his web-based billboard, the Million Dollar Homepage. The eBay auction ended last week with a high bid of $38,100 by…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR A photographic musing on the nature of driving in Boston, and why it is (perhaps) the hardest city in the world to drive in.
By RACHEL GEPNER The subject of art in academia is something that I feel very strongly about and it is a subject that is unavoidable in Boston. You can’t throw a rock without hitting a school in this town and…
By CHARLES GIULIANO The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts includes two remarkable paintings by the French Pompier or Academic/ Salon painter, Jean-Leon Gerome (1824-1904). A student of Paul Delaroche he traveled to Turkey in 1854 and…
By THOMAS MARQUET #2: The second installment of Tom Marquet’s “The White Cube”. “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 CHARLES GIULIANO Domingo Barreres: “Scales of Spin” Sue Yang: “Butterfly Series” Howard Yezerski Gallery 14 Newbury Street January 6 to February 7 In the work of Domingo Barreres, stretching back several decades, there is always some reference to his…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Cinema is principally a visual medium; movement and light (i.e. color and shade) are its essential properties. Some of its ancillary aspects are visual composition, in the same way as painting, and synchronized sound, which only came…
By MICAH J. MALONE The pin-up girls in Suzannah Sinclair’s drawings are not particularly interested in the viewer. With a gaze that is either inwardly focused or off into space, they seem bored more than they are concerned with being…
By MATTHEW NASH James Elkins is a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and author of numerous books on a wide range of subjects, including “Why Art Cannot Be Taught”, “The Object Stares Back”, “Master Narratives…
By RACHEL GEPNER IS THIS HOW I’M SUPPOSED TO ANSWER? by STEVE AISHMAN POSITIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE INTERFERENCE by JENNIFER SCHMIDT WEALTH OF RESOURCES by MEG ROTZEL FACT V. FICTION by ANNEKA LENSSEN CULTIVATING ARTISTS by ANTHONY TUCK RIGIDITY IN…
By BIG RED January 5, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at The Fort Point Arts Community Gallery for The Wheels Project, photographs by Ken Richardson, Jasen Strickler and Andrew M.K. Warren. Photographs by Fred Levy and…
By BIG RED January 6, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at SoWa First Fridays. Images by James Manning.
By BIG RED January 5, 2005 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the opening of Introductions 2006: Lorna Williams and George Rosa and Harvey Loves Harvey: Triple Threat at Judi Rotenberg Gallery Judi Rotenberg Gallery LLC Images…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR The Berwick Research Institute has announced the deadlines for their Artist In Research Program and the new Public Art Incubator Program. Full information can be found at their website. From the press release: Artist in…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Despite the explosion of rumours, speculation, fear, anger and other emotions that ran through Boston last week, the big news is that there is actually NO news. Green Street Gallery will remain open, with the…
By CHARLES GIULIANO January 4, 2006 The formally produced, studio portrait of Elspeth Kinnucan in blue scrubs, holding up snap shots of her two sisters proved to be riveting. She stares out at us with piercing blue eyes that are…
By MATTHEW NASH Here at the start of the new year, I thought I’d take the opportunity to offer a “State of Big RED” report to you, our loyal readers and supporters. 2005 was a big year for us, for…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND The ubiquity of the grid in our culture may explain the fascination with it. Unconsciously, consciously and self-consciously, artists, designers, mathematicians and just about everybody who’s ever sat in front of a computer employs the grid to…
By BENJAMIN SLOAT William Eggleston has the distinction of being among the most emulated of color photographers. Made famous by his groundbreaking and controversial solo show at MOMA in 1976, his images carry with them the confusion of being simple,…
By KATHRYN ADA DUTOIT “Braun Celebrates 50 Years of Industrial Design: 1955-2005” is currently on view at MassArt’s Bakalar Gallery. Boston is the exhibition’s only US destination; before traveling to Massachusetts, the exhibition was on view at Royal College of…