By BIG RED Saturday November 14th, 2009 Candid photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at GALLERY for the opening of OATH: New work From Clark Filio. Chorus Gallery “Oath” is on view until December 11th. Photos by James Manning.…
By MATTHEW NASH Print this article It’s no secret that our culture is fixated on war. The United States has been in some form of war, cold or hot, since before my parents were born. As I write this, we…
By BIG RED Candid photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at Goethe Institute for the opening of Moments in Time 1989/1990. Curated by Rainer Rother, Artistic Director, Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum for Film and Television, Berlin. The exhibit features…
By JAMES A. NADEAU So I have been back in the U.S. for a couple of weeks now, hoping to find time to process and really think about my journey. But as we all know, life goes on. And if…
By BEN SLOAT Alec Soth is a prominent contemporary photographer who first gained acclaim with his seminal book, Sleeping By The Mississippi. Since its publication in 2004, Soth has published a number of photography books, including Niagara in 2006 and…
By BIG RED Friday, October 2nd, 2009 Candid photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at Laconia Gallery for the opening of “Making Connections: Contemporary Cuban Printmakers” presented by Boston Printmakers. Laconia Gallery Boston Printmakers “Making Connections: Contemporary Cuban Printmakers”…
By BIG RED Thursday, November 12th 2009 Candid photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at The Photographic Resource Center at Boston University for the opening of “The Leopold Godowsky Jr. Color Photography Awards,” which honor the co-inventor of Kodachrome…
By BIG RED Friday, October 16th 2009 Candid photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at The New England School of Art and Design at Suffolk University for the opening of “Construction,” curated by James Hull. New England School of…
By STEVE AISHMAN Somewhere along the way, rules got a bad name. People began to associate rules with authority and oppression of freedom. Rules are now seen as antiquated obstacles to individualism and progress. Artists in particular decided that following…
By JAMES A. NADEAU I have spent the last two issues discussing the work that I viewed in Beijing, so I figured it was time to talk a little bit about my trip to Seoul. A lot of the work…
By MICAH J. MALONE Sports and art rarely coincide. Only a handful of contemporary artists come to mind that have utilized sports and athletes as a primary subject. Paul Pfeiffer’s wonderfully jarring videos of basketball star Larry Johnson in perpetual…
By ALAN REID Barb Choit at Rachel Uffner Barb Choit has recently documented the structure and effects of a variety of lamps (and wattage) on a photographic negative; she’s also imaged and archived a collection of broken pottery. Now, in…
By BIG RED Friday, October 30, 2009 Part of MASSART Eventworks for Fall 2009. From the MASSART website: The Iron Pour has a strong history at Massachusetts College of Art, beginning as a fundraiser for the Metals Department, it has…
By STEVE AISHMAN Information has evolved into a new species of garbage. The entire concept of someone who is “informed” has changed and now fragmentary 140 character lines of text pass as communication. It is not that this new breed…
By MICAH J. MALONE I’ve hesitated to comment on the following story, if only because it is still being written. However, the fascinating conundrum that faces Chris Burden and Gagosian Gallery is far too rich to pass up. As was…
By JAMES NADEAU In addition to the massive gallery hopping in I did in the 798 District I also spent some time in the relatively new gallery area of Caochangdi. This is an old neighborhood farther out of the city…
By ERIK GULLARD Alec Soth’s exploration of Bogota stemmed originally from the adoption of his baby girl. The girl’s biological mother made a book full of letters, pictures, and perms and gave it to Soth and his wife. Upon receiving…
By STEPHEN V. KOBASA In Provincetown, there is a great deal of what no longer is. Who sits in the poet Stanley Kunitz’s garden now, or writes in Norman Mailer’s house? And even in October, the hulking tourist buses angle…
With the next round of elections approaching, there has been a lot of talk in Boston about growing the creative economy and fostering new arts spaces in the city. At the same time, there are a large number of college…