By BIG RED Wednesday September 16th, 2009 Big Red Night on the Town at the opening of Tim Murdoch solo installation of sculpture. Tim Murdoch Gallery360 “Tim Murdoch: Installations” is on view insert date at Gallery360 at Northeastern University. Photos…
By BIG RED Friday September 11th, 2009 Big Red Night on The Town for the opening of “Pulling Back the Curtain” curated by Heidi Kayser and George Fifield. Featuring the work of: Joseph Farbrook, Henry Gwiazda , Megan and Murray…
By BIG RED Friday September 11th, 2009 A BIG RED night on the town at the September ‘First Friday’ openings in Boston’s South End. Photos by James Manning. James Manning is a Boston based independent curator, artist and film producer.…
By BIG RED Thursday September 17th, 2009 A Big Red Night on The Town at the opening of Brian Knep solo exhibition “Exempla” Tufts University Brian Knep “Exempla” is on view through November 15, 2009 at the Koppelman Gallery, Tufts…
By STEVE AISHMAN You shouldn’t be reading this in front of your computer. People have a tendency to keep their computers in clean rooms like offices or on desks with flowers and potpourri. This article should be read in your…
By MICAH J. MALONE The fantastic book “Old Masters and Young Geniuses” does something almost unheard of: Author David Galenson formulates the two distinct archetypes of modern art through economic criteria and data. For Galenson, modern artists can be differentiated…
By MEGAN BILLMAN Developments in technology and communication in recent decades, have lead to the evolution of new research methods in many fields. Increasingly, specialists have discovered that when they collaborate, or appropriate the tools of another discipline, they can…
By JAMES A. NADEAU I want to say right off the bat that I am not a theatre person. I am not trained in its analysis nor have I ever participated in a theatrical production (aside for a brief time…
By MATTHEW NASH Samantha Fields makes complex and intricate sculptures and installations that are overwhelmingly crafty, undeniably kitschy, and that seem to revel in their beautiful ugliness. This summer, we sat down among the mountains of Afghans, beads, curtains, kitchen…
City Councilor Michael Flaherty is the only candidate of the four men running for mayor of Boston that has an official written position on the creative economy, artists and arts&culture. We’ve posted a copy of Councilor Flaherty’s “Ten Point Plan…
By STEVE AISHMAN So the other day, I was at the Museum and I overheard two people talking about a Georgia O’Keefe. “Oh they are clearly vaginas,” said one person. “No, they’re just beautiful shapes and colors based on flowers,…
By THOMAS MARQUET #53: Feeling obliged to have feelings about the passing of a contemporary artist. Thomas Marquet is a cartoonist, sculptor, and critic, based in Brooklyn.
By SUSAN SACCOCCIA The artistic kinship between Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) and Arthur Dove (1880-1946) is the subject of a luminous exhibition,Dove/O’Keeffe: Circles of Influence, recently on view at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown as well as…
By SAM MCKINNISS To the left of the Rose Art Museum’s front entrance, down a short path, an abject oasis awaits, appearing from a distance like an abandoned backyard pool party. An above ground pool, the wooden deck, a potted…
By JUDY KERMIS BLOTNICK Scott Schuman has logged some 15 years in the fashion industry during which time he learned the same truth that Yves St. Laurent stumbled on in the early 70’s. The best ideas, the most creative approaches…
By JAMES A. NADEAU A week or so ago I had the opportunity to visit the studio of Jeffrey Lipsky. Lipsky is an artist who is exploring the opportunities of both art making and art dealing in the online virtual…