By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR It is with great sadness that we announce the departure of Gallery Katz. Along with Clifford-Smith Gallery (whose closing was so rapid that Big RED failed to properly eulogize their great work! [1]), Gallery Katz…
By KATHLEEN BITETTI The revolution will not be televised Part Two- Fair Trades Means Fair Trade. There has been an explosion of art auctions to raise moneys for non-profit organizations. These organizations repeatedly ask artists to donate their art and/or…
By CHARLES GIULIANO In the late 60s and 70s, the dark ages for the arts in Boston, when the Institute of Contemporary Art was the only, struggling, act in town, Stephen D. and Susan Paine, were conspicuous for their enthusiasm…
By MATTHEW NASH A while ago I wrote a piece for Contemporary Magazine about the new ICA building and it’s potential impact on the SoWa district, which has finally been published in their 81st issue. In that piece, I wrote:…
By ROB CLIFFORD In the last issue of Big RED & Shiny, executive editor Rachel Gepner wrote of her time in the SoWa gallery/studio complex. Her piece prompted a range of responses in our Forum, and inspired Rob Clifford of…
By BIG RED May, 20th 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night out-of-town at the opening for Candice Ivy’s installation Murmur at The Old City Jail on Magazine St. in Charleston, SC as part of the Piccolo Spoleto Festival.…
By ARTHUR WHITMAN The main problem with the 2006 DeCordova Annual Exhibition, aside from its predictable unevenness, is that the work within doesn’t interrelate very well. Each of the thirteen artists selected (counting a two artist team) presents a body…
By JUDITH LEEMANN Several years ago Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois, Chicago re-staged the 1976 work Rayna by James Turrell. This installation consists of a dimly lit room with a rectangular window opening onto another room, the careful…
By MARK SNYDER I am really excited to see that there is a growing performance art scene in Boston. The Present Tense is the latest effort to gather together artists, garner space and get the word out to a performance…
Part I: Futility A few weeks ago I received an email from an artist named Matthew Hincman. It was only a few short lines about a sculpture he had installed at the Jamaica Pond, and a picture. “The sculpture…
By HEIDI MARSTON On Friday, June 6th, Sweetness, an exhibition of work in various media by 5 women artists, opened at the Sherman Gallery on the Boston University campus. The show, curated by Lynne Cooney has succeeded in creating an…
By MICAH J. MALONE 9 Evenings Reconsidered: art, theatre, and engineering is a sprawling exhibition centered around a major collaborative effort that transpired in 1966. As the catalog and the curators make clear, to reconsider these 9 evenings is not…
By STEVE AISHMAN Anyone who has a great older brother or sister knows that the defining quality of a great sibling is not if she defended me on the playground (which my older sister did) or if she loaned me…
By EAN FRICK When living in an age of over consumption we often find ourselves searching for gold among the piles of plastic. Aaron Brewer and Michael Mahalchick’s installations, currently showing at the Second Gallery, achieve this diamond in the…
By KAREN SCHIFF When the Museum of Modern Art reopened in Manhattan, Eva Hesse’s sculptural assemblage of knee-high translucent rumpled cylinders, “Repetition Nineteen III” (1968), was installed behind a wall that held a large Agnes Martin painting. The pairing was…
By ANNA FAKTOROVICH The message is on the wall, in the yellow rectangle drawn around the eleven oil portraits on panel. Jeffrey Ellse’s art is trapped in rectangles. His art expresses a fear of expression. Psychological barricades are erected in…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND When Kelly Sherman began her residency at the Berwick Research Institute’s Artist in Research (AIR) program, she had set out to create a project based on seating arrangements at weddings. When I heard this, I suspected that…
By BIG RED THE DA VINCI CODE by MICAH J. MALONE X-MEN 3 by MATTHEW NASH NACHO LIBRE by RACHEL GEPNER BRICK by JASON DEAN ART SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL by BEN SLOAT TOKYO DRIFT by CHRISTIAN HOLLAND THE DEVIL WEARS…
By BIG RED May 7th 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED evening on-the-town at the National Bitter Council GOYA honoring Day Banquet. The Bitter Melon Council celebrated the annual GOYA Honoring Day with a 7 course banquet, each course…
By BIG RED May 5th, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the First Friday openings at Harrison Street. photos from the May Openings of: Beth Galston and Ann Torke at Boston Sculptors Gallery Rachel Dayson at…