By CHARLES GIULIANO It is tough for Arlette Kayafas to get around. She has been trying to find the time in a busy schedule to have an operation on her knees that will take four months of rehabilitation. So Arlette…
By KATHLEEN BITETTI I have some great news to report out. On June 5th the Connector Board voted unanimously to change the definition of Gross Income to Adjusted Gross Income contained in the Regulations “Determining Affordability for the Individual Mandate…
By THOMAS MARQUET #19: 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 BIG RED May 20th, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at a reception in Florence, 8 Japanese artists. These images were sent by James Hull, who is clearly enjoying his time in Italy. Curator Atsuko Inuzuka…
By AMANDA SCHMITT Feminist art is a heavily argued topic in countless critiques and conversations around the art community – How do we distinguish between feminist art, art made by women, art about women, and art with a feminine quality.…
By ANAIS DALY At a new gallery on Melcher Street, Gallery Lamontagne (named after its owner, Russell Lamontagne), showcases the work of three artists who hail from various parts of the country in an exhibition titled “Regional Highlights”. In this…
By JACQUELINE HOUTON Fully embracing Duchamp’s declaration, “The spectator makes the picture,” Cambridge’s Art Interactive has for five years displayed cutting-edge art that invites audience participation. Its latest show, Soundmarks, removes the picture from the equation, avowing that sound can…
By KAREN SCHIFF When you walk into the Allston Skirt Gallery this month, it looks as if Roberta Paul’s spin on “Creation : Science” is all mapped out. Her exhibition’s title suggests a fundamental Question: Who gets the final word…
By MATTHEW NASH In his new body of work, titled “Bathyscape,” Andrew Mowbray attacks the notion of hegemonic masculinity, and employs the critical devices of post-feminism within a series of questions about his own role as a male. Through a…
By JAMES NADEAU “Subculture tends to be presented as an independent organism functioning outside the larger social, political and economic contexts. As a result, the picture of subculture is often incomplete.” Dick Hebdige, Subculture: the Meaning of Style 1979 It…
By MATTHEW NASH After nineteen months and twelve shows, Second Gallery will be closing this summer. Rebecca Gordon, the 23-year-old director of Second Gallery, will be heading off to Chicago for graduate school, and will be turning over the space…
By MICAH J. MALONE Sean Horton has always had a knack for initiating projects. At one time or another, Sean has been integral to the founding of a record label, a gallery, an online arts journal and a graphic design…
By MICAH J. MALONE I’m going to be sick to my stomach. Christoph Büchel and Mass MoCA are still at it, with no ideal or agreeable solution in sight. As it stands at this moment, the museum will continue with…
By BEN SLOAT Andres Serrano is an artist who came to national acclaim in the early 1990s with his controversial photographs appropriating religious imagery. At the time he was famously labeled by conservative Senator Jesse Helms as “not an artist,…
By BIG RED Friday, May 20th, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Space Other for the opening of Andrew Mowbray’s “Bathyscape”. Space Other Click here to watch video of the opening. Photos by Steve Aishman.
By BIG RED Friday May 18th, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the opening of “Charles Giuliano: Last Call A Retrospective.” New England School of Art and Design at Suffolk University Photos by James Manning
By BIG RED Thursday, May 10th, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at The DeCordova Museum for the opening of the 2007 Annual Exhibition. DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Last issue, we reported that Charles Giuliano will be retiring from his position as director of the gallery at the New England School of Art and Design. The exhibition “Charles Giuliano: A Retrospective” opened this…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR We at Big RED & Shiny are always looking for ways to improve your experience with us, and help you find all of the great things going on in New England. So we are happy…
By THOMAS MARQUET Tom Marquet is taking a short hiatus, so we thought it would be a good time to recap the fantastic side-story that he has beendeveloping on his blog, starring Katharine, Jacqueline, and Derek. “The White Cube” comics…