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…
By BIG RED & SHINY Print this article The phrase ‘award season’ is rarely associated with anything except cinema. There are the Oscars, Globes, and various critics’ circles who dole out various awards of varying levels of prestige. However, each…
By BIG RED Print this article Friday, February 2nd, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at The Rhys Gallery for the opening of ¡ATTACK!, featuring theMiracle5. Rhys Gallery
By BIG RED Print this article Thursday, February 8th, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the opening of Sensorium II at The List Visual Arts Center Photographs by Mark Linga and courtesy of The LVAC and…
By BIG RED Print this article Friday, February 9th, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at GASP for the opening of We Are Where We Are Not, curated by Jason Kalogiros. Gallery Artists Studio Projects (GASP)
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Print this article This just in . . . Form the ICA press release: Cambridge artist Kelly Sherman is the winner of the 2006 James and Audrey Foster Prize, the Institute of Contemporary Art announced…