“THE WHITE CUBE” By Thomas Marquet #37: After a loooooooooooooooong hiatus, “The White Cube” is back. What has everyone been up to? Thomas Marquet is a cartoonist, sculptor, and critic, based in Brooklyn, New York, which is an admittedly unoriginal…
Yearly Archives: 2008
OBAMA: AN ARTS-FRIENDLY PRESIDENT? By Matthew Nash On Tuesday, November 4th, Americans overwhelmingly voted for Barack Obama to be the next President of the United States. This is a truly amazing moment in history that many have already written about, and…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: THE ICA By Big Red Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the ICA Boston for the opening of The 2008 James and Audrey Foster Prize exhibit; Momentum 12: Gerard Byrne and…
TARA DONOVAN @ THE ICA By Matthew Nash The first thing I noticed upon entering the ICA’s West Gallery was the abundance of security guards hovering around the room, their teeth gritted nervously. While this might seem intimidating to the average…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE By Steve Aishman The Reverence Of Looking 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…
EDITS @ HALLSPACE By Karen S. Fegley To edit a newspaper is to correct or modify text and other content in order to make it suitable for publication. In Edits, HallSpace’s current show, Melissa Zexter and Pat Shannon turn that…
A CONVERSATION WITH GREGORY CREWDSON By Ben Sloat Gregory Crewdson is a photographer known best for his high production photographic projects, Hover, Twilight, and Beneath the Roses, open ended narratives that blend the suburban vernacular of the Northeast with the paranormal.…
PHILADANCO @ THE ICA By Chelsey Philpot Financial down-turns throughout history have shown that even in a tough economy people do not stop going to movies. Why shell out twelve bucks for a blockbuster? Why pay too much for butter-soaked…
TALKING ABOUT PLACE WITH RACHEL WHITEREAD By James Nadeau Rachel Whiteread was in town for the opening of her U.S. premiere of her new piece Place (Village) at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. I was lucky enough to spend…
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…