BILL ARNING LEAVING THE LIST TO HEAD THE CONTEMPORARY ARTS MUSEUM HOUSTON By Big Red This morning The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston announced that Bill Arning has been named as their new director. Arning has been the curator at the List…
ANNABEL DAOU @ THE DAVID WINTON BELL GALLERY By Jon Petro Linguistics in contemporary art is an amalgamated concept developed to provide additional territory to the diminished landscape of the now obsolete avant-garde. It’s strategically similar to other movements in the…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE By Steve Aishman “It’s easy to make contemporary art sound stupid— just describe it literally.” – Bill Arning Bill Arning is right about most things and in this case, you can apply the same logic…
THE BOSTON ART AWARDS BALL – FEBRUARY 2ND!!! By Big Red Please join us tomorrow night, February 2, at the Beehive for the Boston Art Awards Ball, hosted by Big RED & Shiny and the New England Journal of Aesthetic Research!…
THERE ARE NO NEW IDEAS. PART 3 By Christian Holland Part 3 of a 3-Part Series. Click here for Part 1 and here for part 2. Some philosophers, scientists and artists, such as Micah Malone, suggest that there are going to…
By James A. Nadeau As February dawns it seems like a good time to take a look back at the first month of the year. January brought many surprises and unfortunately not all of them were good. The good stuff entailed…
BACKLASH TO BRANDEIS CLOSING THE ROSE By Matthew Nash & Micah J. Malone On Monday, January 26th, The Boston Globe’s Geoff Edgers broke the story that Brandeis University was planning to close down the Rose Art Museum and sell off the…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: THE ROSE ART MUSEUM By Big Red Thursday, January 29th, 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED day on-the-town at a sit-in at Brandeis University to protest the closing of the Rose Art Museum. Photos by Christian Holland
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: FP3 GALLERY By Big Red Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at FP3 Gallery for the opening of “Re-Presented” by Oscar Palacio. FP3 Gallery Note: The title attribution of this exhibition has been corrected and updated.
PLATFORM2: MANIFESTO!SLAM By Matthew Nash The banner said “Get on the bus” so we did, sixteen participants in the MANIFESTO!SLAM created by the social activist collaborative Platform2. It was a cold evening but everyone was jubilant, that morning having witnessed the…