By BIG RED September 6, 2006 Not so candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at The Mission Bar
By MICAH J. MALONE Los Angeles artist Jason Rhoades passed away early last month in what is said to be a possible heart failure. Rhoades was often described as a very enigmatic person, which could easily be discerned from his…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Art Showdown is a game show about art, and an art exhibition about game shows currently on view at Art Interactive. This project, two years in the making, has involved the full transformation of the…
By BIG RED EDITORS Big RED & Shiny is always looking for people who are excited about art and want to write about it. As the new season kicks off this fall, there is plenty of art to see in…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article The exhibition “No Reservations: Native American History and Culture in Contemporary Art” curated by Richard Klein for the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgfield, Connecticut, about a one hour drive from Manhattan, may prove…
By THOMAS MARQUET #3: 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 MICAH J. MALONE Fall is among us, and for Boston that means a flood of students. It’s also the time when the best exhibition venues gear up for those students. It is no secret that the best places to…
By JASON DEAN Editor’s Note: In issue #46 of Big RED & Shiny, Jason Dean wrote a piece about the German collaborative eTeam and their “International Airport Montello” project. Since that piece, Dean has become a part of the project,…
By JON PETRO Onanism is the act of self-gratification practiced by millions of people everyday. So if an artist chooses to bring his fetish to the venue of fine art, wouldn’t you expect to see art that reflects the true…
By BIG RED Friday, August 4, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED evening on the town at Jeremy Chu’s apartment in Boston’s South End for his performance, THE RENAISSANCE WINDOW PROJECT: A PARALLAX VIEW
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Locally residing writer, Patricia Cornwell, author of Portrait of a Killer, a novel about sleuthing the identity of Jack the Ripper, the London East End killer, has promised a gift of over 80 works by…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR This upcoming 2006 season, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum of Art will be offering podcasts of their ongoing Tapestry Room concert series, which features young performers and contemporary composers. The podcasts are a part of…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR While it has been unofficial knowledge for a while now, George Fifield has officially confirmed his departure from the DeCordova Museum. Fifield told Big RED & Shiny that the museum has closed the curator of…
By KATHLEEN BITETTI Jason Schupbach is the director of ArtistLink which is currently housed at the Massachusetts Cultural Council. He has been attending meetings for artist housing and artist work space development all over Massachusetts for the past year and…
By JASON DEAN At art school in NY city, I learned an important lesson that no ridiculous amount of tuition could have taught me: no one is about to hold your hand in any way and the real world should…
By JENNIFER MCMACKON I’m in the studio of Toronto artist Andrew Reyes. With upcoming solo exhibitions both here at Diaz Contemporary and stateside at Buffalo’s Hallwalls, he’s an artist to watch. I’m looking for evidence of sculpture. I’d especially love…
By JON PETRO I went to see Katz. Honestly, I really did. The single, self-serving reason I drove to the Peabody Essex Museum, in Salem, MA, was to see a panoramic painting by the artist Alex Katz. I don’t know…
By MATTHEW GAMBER A contemporary riddle: How many Ansel Adams calendars does the Sierra Club have to sell to support awareness of the John Muir trail? Based on sales, many admire a tree more in a photograph, which is perhaps…
By BEN SLOAT On view until September 9th at the Green Street Gallery is the multimedia exhibition Astronauts, Monsters, and Silicon Flowers. A dark and quirky rejoinder to the end of summer and the arrival of sober autumn, this show…
By JASON DEAN In Venus at Her Mirror, a well-known painting by Diego Velasquez, Venus reclines on a sofa with her back to the viewer. She’s looking back at the viewer in a mirror held by Cupid. Her face is…