BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: E.P.LEVINE,EXPOSURE PLACE LTD By Big Red October 25th, 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at E.P. Levine in the Exposure Places Studios, Studio B, shooting for the National Film Challenge. A number of BRSers were…
BILL T. JONES/ARNIE ZANE DANCE CO: ANOTHER EVENING: SERENADE/THE PROPOSITION By Chelsey Philpot February 2009 will mark the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth. Celebratory volumes singing the sixteenth president’s praises — new biographies, Civil War history hard covers, and children’s…
RACHEL WHITEREAD @ THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON By James Nadeau “The house, even more than the landscape, is a ‘psychic state,’ and even when reproduced as it appears from the outside, it bespeaks intimacy.” – Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics…
KARSH 100 @ THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON By Kat Kiernan Walking into Karsh 100: A Biography in Images, an exhibition of Yosurf Karsh’s photographs at the Museum of Fine Arts, I found myself face-to-face with Winston Churchill. Not the…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE By Steve Aishman Night of the Living Dead (1968) Halloween (1978) Dawn of the Dead (1978) A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) Day of the Dead (1985) Creepshow 2 (1987) Monkey Shines (1988) They…
SPINNING RHETORICAL WHEELS IN RHETORIC: AN ESSAY ON THE ESSAY By Christian Holland Every piece published on Big RED and Shiny is an essay in some form or another. The following is an attempt, an ‘essay’ if you will, to…
SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL @ MUSéE D’ART CONTEMPORAIN DE MONTRéAL By Megan Driscoll The Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal is featuring an exciting traveling exhibition devised by Dominic Molon, curator of Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art. Sympathy for the Devil:…
A CONVERSATION WITH POSTERBOY By Jason Dean I first saw Posterboy’s work on the subway platform a month or so ago. It was a reworked ad poster for the show Date My Ex, only someone had replaced the heads of these…
Today Harvard announced the gift from class of 1936 alumna Emily Rauh Pulitzer, a former curator at HUAM and wife of the late Joseph Pulitzer Jr. The gift is part of the Pulitzer family’s ongoing philanthropy in support of the…
ASKEW @ 215 COLLEGE ARTISTS’ CONTEMPORARY GALLERY By Amanda Sanfilippo Featuring the work of Paul Humphrey, Jennifer Koch, Tarrah Krajnak and Lance Richbourg, Askew: Contemporary Portraits lays out four different approaches to contemporary portraiture, all of which are intertwined in…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: THE LIST By Big Red Friday, October 10th, 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at MIT’s List Visual Arts Center for the opening of “Adel Abdessemed: Situation and Practice” MIT List Visual Arts Center Photos…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: TRUSTMAN GALLERY, SIMMONS COLLEGE By Big Red Thursday, October 9th , 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the opening of The Human Animal Project. Curated by Paul Roux Trustman Art Gallery at Simmons College…
BETH LIPMAN @ RISD & SOVIET POLITICAL ART @ BROWN By James Nadeau Last weekend I took a road trip (actually it was a train trip) to Providence. I went to check out the new wing at the museum at the…
OLAFUR ELIASSON: WATERFALLS By Ben Sloat I rode over the Manhattan Bridge today with a group of out of towners. As we looked eagerly into New York Harbor for the Eliasson waterfalls, we were disappointed to find only the scaffolding in…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE By Steve Aishman The Zuni have used clay figures for thousands of years. Buddhists; mandalas. A clinical psychologists may suggest a candle. Christians may use the cross. Cultures from around the globe and throughout history…
JOGGING WITH THE PRESIDENT OF RISD By Christian Holland Several times a month, John Maeda, the recently inaugurated president of RISD hosts a community jogging event called “Jogging with John.” This issue, Big RED & Shiny offers a short podcast about…
INTERVIEW WITH JIM FITTS By Jason Landry Jim Fitts is the Executive Director of the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, a position he took on in 2007 after serving for several years on the center’s Board of Directors. He…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: HONK! By Big Red Sunday, October 12th, 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED afternoon on-the-town at HONK! Parade to Reclaim the Streets for Horns, Bikes, and Feet: From Davis Square to Harvard Square. HONKFEST
MARKETWATCH By Micah J. Malone Marketwatch was created as a means to speculate on what is good economic value in art. From time to time I will write upon great market choices, emphasizing small-scale enterprises. When talking about art markets, comparisons…
In my post this morning about the new Creative Economy Council announced by Gov. Patrick, I mentioned that the impact of this new organization will be directly affected by the policies of our new president, whether it is Sen. Obama…