By MARGOT ANNE KELLEY You heard it here first: Al Gore won! Okay, so maybe you aren’t hearing it here first (and maybe you no longer believe it when you hear it, anyway). But this month, Gore was awarded the…
By JENNIFER MCMACKON Toronto artist Lisa Neighbour speaks with Jennifer McMackon about life and death, sculpture and the resistance language of electrical wiring: JM: Lisa Neighbour, I seem to recall a big shift in your work about ten or maybe…
By LAUREL SPARKS The Boston Artist Laurel Sparks asks the former America’s Next Top Model contestant from Boston, Mila Bouzinova, a few questions about life and modeling. Laurel Sparks: What inspired you to start modeling? Mila Bouzinova: People always assumed…
By KAREN SCHIFF “Art is never a commodity,” declared Peter Schjeldahl, at Boston University on October 4, “though it can be treated as if it is one.” Schjeldahl, the senior art critic at The New Yorker, was trying to reassure…
By CARL GUNHOUSE Why has the installation of the Museum of Modern Art’s New Photography series created so little interest in the photography world? Last time I checked, there were no reviews in the Village Voice, New York Times, not…
By MATTHEW NASH Chris Tonelli is a poet, musician, and the motivation behind The So And So Series, a regular poetry event in Boston and Cambridge. They can often be found at The Distillery, The Lily Pad and Porter Square…
By BEN SLOAT The medium of photography has been especially ravenous this past half century. The swelling of the photograph from its key mechanisms of description to include those of performance, appropriation, and construction has not weakened its ability to…
By MATTHEW NASH I’ve been down this road before. It begins with the uncomfortable feeling of leaving culture you understand, glancing nervously at the rear-view mirror as it fades further and further behind you. Eventually, when the city and the…
By CAROLYN FRANKLIN I first saw Nick Rodrigues work in the form of a postcard, which showed him in a suit and tie, walking down the street talking on a cellphone with his “Portable Cellular Phone Booth” over his head.…
By JACQUELINE HOUTON I sit in relative comfort in the climate-controlled gallery, on the bench so thoughtfully provided for me, and yet I am profoundly uncomfortable. I am watching a body slowly tumble down a flight of stairs, shaking the…
A couple of months ago a group of artists got together, dressed up as superheroes and took some pictures. It got a modicum of press around town. We blogged about it back in August. It also sparked a bit of…
By JASON DEAN I saw a Christoph Büchel piece in a building in Chinatown once. I have to describe it as a singular piece because the entire building was literally the work, every corridor, every light, every room had his…
By MICAH J. MALONE Jessie Rose Vala’s exhibition “The Tortuous Veil” is a new series of work based on four enigmatic mythical archetypes: The Werewolf, Vampire, Shape Shifter, and Zombie. While these entities have pervaded pop culture for much of…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Boston: the Red Sox are going to the World Series, the Revolution are in the finals, and the Patriots can’t seem to lose. The harder I search for relevance in the success of Boston’s sports teams to…
By STEVE AISHMAN The Phantom Zone’s Boston Gallery Map The Phantom Zone’s Boston Gallery Map including a suggested 1 mile walking path. Click here to view the full map so you can plot your own walking path! *Note, this is…
By CHARLES GIULIANO The exhibition “Painted Visions: Paintings by Award-Winning Massachusetts Artists” brings a lively and largely familiar body of work to the downtown Gallery 51 of the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams, Massachusetts. Since MCLA has…
By KATHLEEN BITETTI Greetings! I have decided to dedicated this column to breaking news, Action Need, and Save the Dates announcements. There are two important warnings and two updates for those Massachusetts Residents who do not have health insurance. Make…
By BIG RED Saturday, October 20th, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at The List Visual Arts Center at MIT for the opening of “Video Trajectories: Selections from the Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection and the New…
By BIG RED Saturday, October 20th, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED day on-the-town at Fort Point Open Studios. The Fort Point Artist Community (FPAC)
I had originally planned to write a review of the new issue of Aspect: The Chronicle of New Media for issue #71 of Big RED & Shiny, however now that I’m spending time with the disc it seems more appropriate…