By BIG RED Friday January 29th, 2010 Photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at Fort Point Arts Community Gallery for the opening ofInteractivity : Interpassivity, featuring work by Kristen Mills and Jessica Hyatt. Fort Point Arts Community Gallery Interactivity…
By BIG RED Thursday January 21st 2010 Photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at The DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park for the opening of The 2010 DeCordova Biennial. Featuring the work of: Greta Bank, Ross Cisneros, Georgie Friedman, Paul…
By BIG RED Thursday February 11th, 2009 Photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at The AIB Gallery at University Hall, Cambridge for the opening of FIVE FROM AROUND, featuring Rama Rejman, Elaine Spatz-Rabinowitz and Tabitha Vevers Art Institute of…
By BIG RED February 3rd, 2010 Photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at MIT List Visual Arts Center for the prereception/reception of Virtuoso Illusion: Cross-Dressing and the New Media Avant-Garde MIT List Visual Arts Center “Virtuoso Illusion: Cross-Dressing and…
By STEVE AISHMAN “Art writing that attempts not to judge, and yet presents itself as criticism, is one of the fascinating paradoxes of the second half of the twentieth century.” – James Elkins In 1970, Edmund Burke Feldman wrote a…
By MATTHEW GAMBER Since 2004, this pink website has been your independent, upstart source for news, reviews, and dialogue on contemporary work. We’ve published 125 issues, covered hundreds of exhibitions, and offered artists and patrons insight into the minds of…
By THOMAS MARQUET #55: What do artists talk about during a recession? Thomas Marquet is a cartoonist, sculptor, and critic, based in Brooklyn.
By CEARA DANAHER The Boston artists Jack W. Schneider, Alexander DeMaria, and Todd White came together in January to present “Dude, where’s my apocalypse?” at the fivesevendelle project space. One of the most compelling aspects of the show is the…
By SANDRINE SCHAEFER Many artists make work with the hope that they will one day see it in a gallery or museum, but Vela Phelan once told me that his assemblages are made not for these spaces, but for homes.…
By RICKY TUCKER Running a scenic course under the overpass of cross-dressing, “Virtuoso Illusion,” hits all the usual but gleaming notes typical to the theme: The vibrantly melancholic Sedgwykean Hero(ine), tales of excess (both cautionary and leading), the refracted illuminations…
By MATTHEW NASH Georgie Friedman is a video installation artist whose multi-channel pieces are both contemplative and engaging. Her latest piece,Dark Swell, can be seen as part of the 2010 DeCordova Biennial. We met up for tea and scones at…
OUR NEW LISTINGS: EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS, CALLS FOR WORK, CLASSES & WORKSHOPS by BIG RED OUR NEW LOOK: FINDING YOUR WAY AROUND by BIG RED It’s our birthday and we’ve had our fill of cake, presents and cocktails.…
By BIG RED After six years online, we’ve learned a lot about how to help you find all of the great stuff we have on Big RED & Shiny. Sure, we’ve had re-designs before, but none this comprehensive. So here’s…
By BIG RED One of the most active parts of Big RED & Shiny has always been our Listings section, where galleries, curators and other organizations post their latest announcements to let you know what’s going on. The new Big…
By JUDY KERMIS BLOTNICK Brian Knep, 41, a Boston media artist, paints with his computer. He has perfected his technology to interact with the viewer, which has brought him an impressive amount of critical success since 2004. Just this month…
By SHANE GODFREY There has been a large surge of DIY (do it yourself) projects thanks to the current recession, lack of money and the internet. With the rise in popularity of sites like Lifehacker and Design Sponge, DIY projects…
By ALAN REID Josh Faught is sculptor who works in a variety of sculptural media, focusing primarily on how textiles interact with cultural metaphors. While the Light Lasts, his current show, is on view at Lisa Cooley Fine Art, in New York.…
By JULIE NOVAKOFF Over the past four decades, Eli and Edythe Broad, noted Los Angeles philanthropists and art collectors, have amassed one of the largest collections of postwar and contemporary art in the world. Their two collections, The Eli and…
By ANNIE GOTTLIEB Back in the heady early days of feminism’s second wave, the movement’s theorists poured forth torrents of words about the male monopoly on public power — economic, political, religious, cultural. If you had grown up in a…
