BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: MEGAPOLIS AUDIO FESTIVAL By Big Red Friday April 24th 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at MEGAPOLIS Audio Festival in the basement of the Cambridge Massasoit Elks Lodge. MEGAPOLIS Audio Festival Boston Typewriter Orchestra Images…
THE 2009 BOSTON CYBERARTS FESTIVAL By Big Red Every two years, New Englanders are treated to an art spectacle that is uniquely Bostonian. The Cyberarts Festival is a showcase for a broad array of artistic hybrids that explore a range…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: STUDIO SOTO By Big Red Saturday April 18th and Sunday April 27th 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED day on-the-town at Studio Soto for an installation by Yucef Merhi Studio Soto Images by James Manning and courtesy…
FASHION AS ART, PART 2 By Judy Kermis Blotnick In writing about fashion as a true art form there is the slight temptation to pull one’s shoulders up around one’s ears and wince “I dunno.” Yes, there is the idea…
Observations on Cyberarts. The Boston Cyberarts Festival is upon us. This biennial festival began on Friday the 24th and is taking place in and around Boston over the course of 10 days. I have a confession to make. I have…
GIMP @ THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART By Chelsey Philpot The prologue to the Friday, April 24th performance of “GIMP” at the ICA began outside on the museum’s gymnasium-sized wooden deck overlooking Boston Harbor. There the audience waited sipping wine, enjoying…
ARTFORCE! CAMBRIDGE @ CACG By Angela Lauren Speece “This isn’t your newspaper critic’s gallery show,” exclaims the ArtForce! Cambridge invitation– which unsurprisingly makes this exhibition especially compelling to review. Leave behind all of your presumptions about art, as this show…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: THE ART INSTITUTE OF BOSTON By Big Red Thursday, April 16th, 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at The Art Institute of Boston for the opening of “Nourishment: New Work by Jeffu Warmouth and Ellen…
“THE WHITE CUBE” By Thomas Marquet #47: More frame shop humor, this time with action and intrigue! Thomas Marquet is a cartoonist, sculptor, and critic, based in Brooklyn, New York, which is an admittedly unoriginal place to be pursuing any of…
MARKETWATCH By Micah J. Malone As exciting as this is, imagine how exciting the collapse is going to be! The above quote turned out to be a bit of a prelude. Speaking at the Frieze art fair well before the economic…
AN INTERVIEW WITH VIK MUNIZ By Jason Landry Vik Muniz was in Boston recently for two sold-out lectures at the MFA. Jeffrey Keough, former Director of Exhibitions at the Massachusetts College of Art & Design and I had the opportunity to…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: MIT MUSEUM By Big Red Friday, April 24th, 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the MIT Museum for “Loops”, featuring four commissioned works by artists Brian Knep, Golan Levin, Casey Reas, and Sosolimited. This…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE By STEVE AISHMAN Print this article Southern Double Feature First: artist and media theorist Serene Al-Kawas and I have a dialog about the exhibition “Atatürk” by Mike Mandel and Chantal Zakari at Kennesaw State…
GEORGIE FRIEDMAN @ BOSTON COLLEGE By Matthew Nash Georgie Friedman’s video installations require patience. They are not for those with a short attention span, and they only reward the viewer willing to sit and wait. Sometimes the rewards are small, tiny…
PARSE @ AXIOM By Matthew Nash PARSE: Visualizing Data That Makes Us Human is an exhibition that makes visible things that we know intuitively, yet rarely consider as visual data, much less art. Each piece takes on an unseen part of…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: HALLSPACE By Big Red Saturday April 18th and Sunday April 27th 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Hall Space for the opening of “Bebe Beard: With or Without You.” HallSpace Images by James Manning…
10 YEARS OF CYBERARTS: A Q&A WITH GEORGE FIFIELD By Nina J. Berger Cyber artists from all over the world converge on Boston when the sixth Boston Cyberarts Festival opens on April 24. Since 1999, its director, George Fifield, has corralled…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: BOSTON COLLEGE &HOWARD YEZERSKI GALLERY By Big Red Saturday April 25th, 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED afternoon on-the-town at Boston College for the opening of Georgie Friedman’s ‘Geyser’ and Howard Yezerski for the opening of John…
For many artists and organizations, LEF Foundation’s change in funding priorities has reduced and limited opportunities for funding in New England. The good news is that Louisa McCall, formerly of LEF, and Marie Cieri, are co-directing a new project called…
