By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Print this article A group of 32 disputed Jackson Pollock paintings discovered by Mr. Alex Matter have recently been put through the ringer at Harvard’s prestigious conservation labs. Several pigments unavailable during Pollock’s lifetime were…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Print this article Artists love postcards. They are great to hand out in a conversation, or to leave stacks behind as you travel through the city. Yet, at the end of a show, there are…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article Last year Linda Leslie Brown asked if I would visit a two person show, with video artist Bebe Beard, at Boston’s Wentworth Institute. I agreed if she would take me there and spend an…
By THOMAS MARQUET Print this article #12: 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 MATTHEW NASH Print this article In the autumn of 2002, I was starting my second year of teaching at the Museum School in Boston. Among the graduate students, and some of the faculty, there was an intense energy that…
By BIG RED Print this article Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, for the opening of Ghosts, featuring Jeremy Vaughn and Julie Tourtillotte. Julie Tortillotte Jeremy Vaughn with guests. St. Mary’s…
By BIG RED Print this article February 2nd, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Front Gallery in Oakland for the opening of Half Asian, an exhibition by Big RED regular contributors Ben Sloat and Steve Aishman.…
By JAMES NADEAU Print this article The term fourth wall is from both theater and film that refers to the barrier between the audience and the action that they are viewing. It is most famously known through the act of…
By TODD MARSTON, KAI MCMURTRY, PATRICK SHORT & HEIDI MARSTON Print this article Editor’s Note: There’s something about the work of Craig Drennen that makes people want to respond. His artwork taps into a wide range of aesthetic and emotional…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Print this article In today’s terms, the superhero is a component of the contemporary mythological psyche. They are a representative from the everyday world, touched with ultra-human capacities, (however flawed) and act as a social servant to…
By SUSAN SAKASH & PIXNIT Print this article LET’S CALL A SPADE A SPADE by SUSAN SAKASH THEATER OF THE ABSURD by PIXNIT In April of 2006, five teen-aged girls were arrested in Ravenna, Ohio for placing 17 replicas of…
By MATTHEW NASH Print this article The Berwick Research Institute is in a time of transition. Director Meg Rotzel has stepped down from her leadership role, and although she is still working on several projects at The Berwick, much of…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article Boston is renowned for its many educational institutions and a significant number of these colleges and universities offer degree programs in the fine arts. There are also a number of institutions dedicated to studio…
By BEN SLOAT Print this article Having been born and raised in New York’s Lower East Side, it is not without a certain affection that I came across the collaborative multimedia installation show, American Beach, at the SMFA. On view…
By BIG RED Print this article Friday, January 26th, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at The DeCordova Museum for the opening of “Big Bang! Abstract Painting for the 21st Century”. Also, check out Superfriends’ video interviews…
By BIG RED Print this article Saturday, January 27th, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Lynn Arts for the opening of “Works On Paper”. Also, check out Superfriends’ video interviews from this opening. (Video 1 |…
By BIG RED Print this article Saturday, January 27th, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town for the closing event of the exhibition “PRC|POV” called “Photo Slam”. Photographic Resource Center Photos by Jeremias Paul.
By MATTHEW GAMBER Print this article At last, number 56. The issues usually speak for themselves, and this writing is just a snippet among all the other writings: Reviews from shows in academia, a column from the Anonymous Art Dealer,…
By ANONYMOUS ART DEALER Print this article I have received a lot of questions by the readers of Big RED & Shiny and have really enjoyed addressing them in this column. As a person that is now giving advice to…
By JEFF FREEDNER Print this article Editor’s Note: Two days after launching issue #55, we received an email concerning our news item about the passing of Cliff Pfeiffer. It came from Jeff Freedner, a painter who studied at the Museum…