By BIG RED Thursday, April 19th & Friday, April 20th, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the opening receptions for two student shows. The gallery at the Porter Exchange features work by Shelby Skumanich, Lucy Huffman…
By BIG RED Thursday, April 12th, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at The Museum School for the opening reception of the “Fifth Year Exhibition”. Grossman Gallery at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Boston artist Ravi Jain has been nominated for a Webby for his DriveTime video blog. Voting is open until April 27th, so log in and cast your vote! DriveTime is created by Ravi and his…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Last week the Artadia Boston 2007 first round awards jury convened to review more than 670 applications. The rigorous selection process included Pieranna Cavalchini, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Mark…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Mass MoCA has announced that Denise Markonish will be the new curator, replacing Nato Thompson who left for New York’s Creative Time. Markonish most recently came from New Haven’s Artspace, coming off one of her…
By CHARLES GIULIANO With its summer season in suspense because of deadlocked negotiations with the artist Christoph Buchel in a dispute over expenses and details for an installation in the largest space of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, its…
By THOMAS MARQUET #17: 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…
By MATTHEW GAMBER Who is behind the masthead of Big RED and Shiny? Just who is the conduit of its content? Have you ever wanted to know what our philosophy is? Who are we, really, in the anonymity of the…
By CHRIS ‘ZEKE’ HAND The Darling Foundry aka Quartier Ephemere exemplifies just about everything that is both great about the Montreal art world, and (unfortunately) everything that is absolutely horrible about the Montreal art world. Initially founded in 1993, Quartier…
By JASON DEAN What I knew of The Books from their 3 previous albums was that they were fellow documenters, appreciators of the sample, the sound collage, the tapes from answering machines at the salvation army. I later found out…
By MATTHEW NASH Currently on view at the Portland Museum of Art is the 2007 Biennial, a juried exhibition that fills the entire ground floor of the Museum, and spreads out onto the lawn and onto the eaves. Featuring 61…
By MATTHEW NASH Thomas Edison’s landmark 1903 film “The Great Train Robbery” ends with a famous shot of a bandit firing his gun at the camera. Wikipedia notes that “(a)udiences at the time, for whom moving pictures were still very…
By HEATHER LOGUE “Autonomous projects dealing with the tension between dominant and alternative (image) cultures in totalitarian regimes”. Quite a mouthful and quite an accomplishment for the Mills Gallery’s guest-curator Femke Lutgerink, who has managed to unite six international (and…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND History will be interpreted differently by different individuals and communities. It goes without saying. In fact, “History” is an interpretation, an interpretation of the past. MassMoca’s show, “Ahistoric Occasion: Artists Making History,” brings together a group of…
By BRS STAFF CHRISTIAN HOLLAND by MICAH J. MALONE MATTHEW GAMBER by CHRISTIAN HOLLAND MATTHEW NASH by MATTHEW GAMBER MICAH J. MALONE by MATTHEW NASH A project like Big RED & Shiny is not built overnight, and it does…
On Friday, April 12th, The Berwick Research Institute hosted a dinner at the studio of artist Jill Slosburg-Ackerman in Somerville. The purpose of the dinner was to discuss the state of public art in Boston, and the conversation was led…
By BIG RED Friday, April 6th, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Axiom for the opening of “Selected Works From Aspect Magazine” featuring Jim Campbell, Tony Cokes, Jill Magid and Christopher Miner. Axiom, Inc ASPECT: The…
By BIG RED Friday, Aprl 6th, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at NESAD for the opening of a student show. New England School of Art and Design at Suffok University
By BIG RED Thursday, March 29th, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at The PRC for the opening of “Picture Show”, featuring work by Steve Hollinger, Olivia Robinson, Erica von Schilgen, Deb Todd Wheeler, and a work…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR While reported elsewhere, many of you may have not read about the ongoing debacle between Swiss artist Christoph Büchel and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams, MA. Büchel, who was comissioned by…