By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR The Museum of Fine Arts has announced that the Herb Ritts Foundation will provide the museum with a gift of $2.5 million and a large collection of photographs by the late fashion photographer Herb Ritts,…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Here comes Peter Cottontail, hopping down the bunny trail. Once every Spring, on Easter Sunday, Christians commemorate the reanimation of Jesus of Nazareth (aka Jesus Christ), a Galilean Jew whom they believe came to Earth to save…
By CHARLES GIULIANO After a dead of winter hiatus the Eclipse Mill Gallery has opened the season with a two person exhibition of works on paper by Frank Jackson and black and white mounted photographs by Linda Schwalen. The exhibition…
By THOMAS MARQUET #16: 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 HEIDI MARSTON AISHMAN Have you ever seen something you thought was cool and then wondered why everyone else didn’t think the same thing? Going to art openings is often like that for me. It’s always subjective and always personal:…
By MATTHEW NASH “Are you here for the art, or for the property?” This question was overheard several times during my visit to the latest incarnation of Arthouse, this time at 73 Spring Park Ave. in Jamaica Plain. Like its…
By LINDA K. PILGRIM Beatrice Dauge Kaufmann sees the most optimistic interpretations of American landscapes of New England and New York landscapes that I’ve ever seen. Yet, her glasses are not naively rose-colored. She simply has a way of perceiving…
By ARTHUR WHITMAN Currently up at the DeCordova, Big Bang! Abstract Painting For The 21st Century, surveys the current state of the venerable genre. The best work in the show feels classic but not pedantically backward-looking, mindful of history while…
By BEN SLOAT Stephen Shore is a prominent photographer and photographic educator. A pioneer in the field of color photography, Shore has published numerous books of photography, included his seminal book, Uncommon Places, published in 1982 (reissued in 2004). He…
By MATTHEW NASH Axiom Gallery is a survivor. The past two years have seen them in three different venues, and while their exhibition record only boasts nine or ten shows, they are becoming the most talked-about space in the city.…
By MARIA LACRETA Femke likes to work for a specific space, and having been in Boston only eight months, she nearly immediately became the Associate Curator at Space Other on Wareham Street, working with Director and Curator Gamaliel Herrera. Space…
By CATHERINE D’IGNAZIO & JANE D. MARSCHING On Friday, March 9th, 2007, in the South End, iKatun and Jane D. Marsching convened twenty-five Boston artists, curators and art professionals for a conversation about art and activism. There were a few…