By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Raphaela Platow is leaving her post at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University. Platow is moving stakes from Massachusetts to Ohio, taking a position as director for the Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati. CAC’s…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Each spring there are many college professors who retire in Boston and Cambridge, but few have had such a high profile in the arts for such a long period of time as Charles Giuliano. It…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Lose it under one state administration, get it back under another, lose it again, get it back, and get more. Massachusetts Advocates for the Arts, Sciences & Humanities have again lobbied triumphantly for the arts…
By THOMAS MARQUET #18: 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 CHARLES GIULIANO During a tour of the small but intense and insightful exhibition “The Last Ruskinians: Charles Eliot Norton, Charles Herbert Moore and Their Circle” the co-curator, Virginia Anderson, and I paused before the remarkably detailed, full scale study…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND This week, the ICA Boston presents Zidane, A 21st-Century Portrait (2005), a film in which 17 35mm cameras follow the French footballer Zinedine Zidane for 90 minutes. The film runs from the moment the first whistle commences…
By BEN SLOAT The famed Russian born novelist (and noted lepidopterist) Vladimir Nabokov once wrote to his mother of the creative process: “We are translators of God’s creation, his little plagiarists and imitators, we dress up what he wrote, as…
By MATTHEW NASH Sometimes it seems as if there is a deep divide in the ways we discuss art in our current moment. On one hand, there is a form of dialogue that begins with ideas and intentions, exploring how…
By JENNIFER MCMACKON Much is said in our time about the intersection of art with public space and the idea of the art gallery that exceeds the limitations of it’s walls. But for Patrick Macaulay, Visual Arts Curator at Harbourfront’s…