By THOMAS MARQUET #10: 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 CHARLES GIULIANO “Nobody wanted to show in January,” related my colleague, the artist Linda Leslie Brown, during the opening of her show last night at the cooperative Kingston Gallery in the SOWA art district of Boston’s hoppin South End.…
By ANONYMOUS ART DEALER Q: Dear Art Dealer, My gallery has told me that I have sold artwork and I haven’t seen a payment yet. It’s been three weeks since I’ve been told the piece sold. How long should I…
By JENNIFER MCMACKON David Kramer is a New York artist who has exhibited in Toronto for the last fourteen years. I interviewed David via email at the close of his recent exhibition at Birch Libralato. Jennifer McMackon: David Kramer, one…
By MARIA LACRETA Sound art, like any newer medium that has been around for about a century, has had to re-work our definitions of what art, and more specifically in this case music, can be. After attending the Local Experimental…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND In order to celebrate its 35th birthday, the Boston Center for the Arts showcased artists from its studios, past and present. The show, Studios@35, held in the BCA’s Mills Gallery was curated by local art hero and…
By KAREN SCHIFF Imagine taking a fistful of crayons, wrapping them in a spider’s sac, hanging the sac from an open windowframe, and letting a gentle breeze make the colors repeatedly graze against a paper screen. Artist Laurie Reid –…
By AISHMAN, MANNING, URBATI & PAUL MIAMI HEAT by JAMES MANNING SIT BACK AND RELAX: AN ABBREVIATED TOUR OF FILM AND VIDEO AT MIAMI BASEL by KATHARINE URBATI THE ART BASEL EXPERIENCE by STEVE AISHMAN THE BASEL BALL by…
By BIG RED It seems to be a New Year’s tradition to include a list of the best or worst of the past year, and we at Big RED & Shiny are happy to oblige. At the end of 2006…