By PATRICK SHORT Print this article In December I walked into the Visual Arts Library at Boston University and was told by a friend that we were going to the Armory Show in February. “Whatev” I replied, in usual fashion.…
By JOHN RUGGIERI Print this article “Where’s the Marketing Department?” “Is your office over there, Tim?” I naughtily quipped. The grey grid pattern of endless squares on every single surface of the museum spoke more to the corporate world than…
By JAMES HULL Print this article In 1993 I visited Chicago for the first time with my younger brother Robert. We had a good friend who had just moved there and went to see him, the town and have some…
By FRANK PEREZ Print this article “Rough Bush” works to undo what every common suburban household values most – safety through stuff – and reveals the artist’s vision of the suburb’s safety as a web of prejudices, group sex, chemical…
By JON PETRO Print this article Given that fine art, by character and presentation, is an objective venture; it would be futile to refute, but not to debate an artist’s concept which yields a contradiction between its aesthetic values and…
By SCOTT ALBERG Print this article Space Other’s current exhibit Artists’ Books: Transgression/Excess brings together more than 150 artists who have worked with the artist book over the course of the 20th and 21st centuries. The exhibition features more than…
By MATTHEW NASH Print this article Part I: The Crisis In the new book Critical Mess: Art Critics on the State of their Practice, edited by Raphael Rubinstein, the heavyweights of contemporary art criticism each take a turn at defining…
By JON PETRO When I read a press release that includes words such as; “experiment,” “fusion,” and “collaboration” it’s hard for me to envision installation art without any new age rhetoric creeping into the back of my head. Maybe it’s…
By BIG RED Print this article February 7th, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town in the Hammond Art Gallery at Fitchberg State College from the opening of Community Through Cameras: Argentina and Ghana.
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Print this article Michael Bakwin, a former inn keeper in Stockbridge, Mass and now a resident of Suffolk, VA will have a few priceless paintings returned to him after their theft from his home nearly…
By MICAH J. MALONE Print this article It is fair time again. On the heels of The Armory show, Scope New York and a host of others, the art world is fully entrenched in the workings of commerce. I hear…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article In the best of all possible worlds, perhaps in the not distant future, Raymond Liddell will purchase a house in Tuscany where he hopes to reread all of the Greek and Roman classics, in…
By KATHLEEN BITETTI Print this article “An informed populace makes wise decisions” — President Thomas Jefferson You may have now heard about the Massachusetts Health Care Reform Law and its individual mandate requiring that all Massachusetts residents over 18 must…
By THOMAS MARQUET Print this article #13: 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,…
By JAMES HULL Print this article The project space in Rome for Benedetto Pietromarchi’s exhibition was a medium sized warehouse, rising two stories. The exhibition space was divided by a pair of transparent screens on casters upon which four photographs…
By HEIDI MARSTON AND SUPERFRIENDS Print this article The Printmaking world has always appeared insular to me and I have always felt like an interloper at printmaking exhibits. However, what interests me about the printmaking world is that they seem…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Print this article The scratch and sniff walls are gone, along with the trippy hallway, though the Star Wars helmets and 2001: A Space Odyssey set reproduction still occupy the entrance to Part II of theList Visual…
By FRANK PEREZ Print this article In his statement, curator Jason Kalogiros reminds us that “[a]s firmly rooted in a present moment or place as someone or something is, they always carry with them the residue of the past as…
By CAROLYN FRANKLIN Print this article Among its many processes, none evokes the Victorian origins of photography as powerfully as the pinhole image. The framing vignette, the visual distortion, and the odd mix of crisp focus and blurry confusion all…
By MARIA LACRETA Print this article The film, Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock? is the story of a woman who is trying to convince a wall of art moguls, albeit a small wall, that she owns an original Jackson…