NEW YORK, MOMA & THE FLâNEUR By James Nadeau “Adept of the joys of watching, connoisseur of empathy, the flâneur finds the world ‘picturesque.'” – Susan Sontag, “On Photography” A couple of weeks ago I ended up spending an afternoon wandering…
This weekend brings us the South End Open Studios. I am embarrassed to admit that I have never attended one of these. And I’ve lived here ten years now. I know, I know. I am not a fan of crowds…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: FIRST FRIDAY (PART ONE) By Big Red Friday, September 5th, 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at SoWA First Fridays. Photos by Christian Holland.
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: PLATFORM2:PARADE FOR THE FUTURE By BIG RED Saturday, September 13th, 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED day on-the-town at The Boston Common for “A Parade For The Future”, an event by Platform2. “Come one, come all to…
DAVE COLE @ JUDI ROTENBERG GALLERY By James Nadeau “There is no war, then, without representation, no sophisticated weaponry without psychological mystification. Weapons are not just tools of destruction but also of perception… “ – Paul Virilio “Military Force is Based…
STEVE HOLLINGER @ CHASE GALLERY By Matthew Nash In five glass tanks, small pods float suspended, occcasionally fluttering. Nearby, a glass cube houses hunks of metal detritus. Broken globes, suspended like a science experiment, are attached to an apparatus that pushes…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE By Steve Aishman I have a question for you about child rearing: What do you do about a child who is behaving badly just for the attention? You don’t want to acknowledge the behavior because…
FALL PREVIEW By Christian Holland The fall is when Boston returns to its routine. The melancholy season marks the beginning of the familiar discomfort we know as New England weather and, for hundreds of thousands of young Bostonians, it’s back to…
NATHAN LEWIS @ SETON ART GALLERY By Stephen V. Kobasa What if there was painting that mattered? There is an unequivocal answer to this question in the survey of work by Nathan Lewis now on exhibit in West Haven, Connecticut.…
A SPECIAL COMMENT By Matthew Nash & Matthew Gamber Since our inception, Big RED & Shiny has always been created by artists as a way to discuss our local community and how it fits into a larger art world. Most…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: THE ART INSTITUTE OF BOSTON By Big Red Thursday, September 4th, 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at The Art Institute of Boston for the opening of “Luba Lukova: Social Justice 2008 & Other Works”…
INTERVIEW WITH EMILY ISENBERG By Micah J. Malone I got to know Emily Isenberg in our brief but memorable crossover in Portland, OR. I had just moved to town and a mutual friend thought we should meet. This friend however, did…
BEN SLOAT @ OH+T By Matthew Nash At first glance, it might be easy to dismiss Ben Sloat’s new show “I’m Not Like Other Guys” at O•H+T as a facile obsession with Michael Jackson. In fact, when Sloat first told me…
AMY MONTALI & JESS T. DUGAN @ GALLERY KAYAFAS By Matthew Nash Currenlty on view at Gallery Kayafas are two exhibitions of photographs that challenge the stance of the viewer. Amy Montali’s large color photographs, and Jess T. Dugan’s smaller black-and-white…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: FIRST FRIDAY (PART TWO) By Big Red Friday September 5th 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at First Friday openings in Boston’s Back Bay and South End. “David Moore: Ballinglen” @ Kidder Smith Gallery “Bill…
Since I missed the openings last Friday, I decided to spend the day checking out shows in the South End and on Newbury Street. I saw a lot of great work, and was struck by how rapidly SoWA has changed…
MODERN DAY SAINT-GAUDENS: LAWRENCE J. NOWLAN By Chelsey Philpot “A Sculptor’s work endures so long that it is next to a crime for him to neglect to do everything that lies in his power to execute a result that will not…
SUSAN ERONY: A PORTRAIT By Tamara Schillin Susan Erony is an artist, historian, scholar, independent curator and adjunct professor currently residing in Gloucester, MA. She has grappled with complex and highly controversial subjects in her work and life for nearly three…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE By Steve Aishman A MOMA Novella Chapter 1: The Opening They went to museum to have fun, but it turned out the museum completely sucked. “Free tickets and the members only opening? How could…
SERIOUSNESS @ NOVA BENWAY By Matthew Nash Currently on view in a living room in Jamaica Plain is the exhibition “Seriousness,” featuring work by Nate McDermott, Shawn Zamechek and Meg Rotzel. The living room belongs to Nova Benway, co-curator of the…