By JAMES MANNING Monday March 22nd, 2010 Candid photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at the Park Street Church for the site specific performance of B u r i e d: Funerals and other formal arrangements Performance Orchestrated by:…
By JAMES MANNING Saturday, March 27th, 2010 Big RED’s Jim Manning takes his video camera out for a night on-the-town at MEME for the opening of “8 Bits Per Pixel”, an exhibition of GIF animations curated by NADA and PrincessDie.…
By THOMAS MARQUET #58: If the Whitney Biennial is so terrible, why does everyone want to be in it? Thomas Marquet is a cartoonist, sculptor, and critic, based in Brooklyn.
By STEVE AISHMAN It’s a 13-hour flight to Dubai. Not the kind of travel to be taken lightly but worth it for the experience of Art Dubai. For visitors like me, Art Dubai represents more than the other fairs like…
By KAT KIERNAN I am not sure how to best treat a bloodstain. Is it cold water? Tide? Or must the ruined article of clothing be thrown away? These are the thoughts that ran through my mind while viewing a…
By JOSEPH CAMPANA On the way to the Boston ICA to see the latest from the Stephen Petronio Company, I walked past Our Lady of Good Voyage Chapel. Nothing could have better suited Petronio’s ambitious I Drink the Air Before…
By SHANE LAVALETTE Gil Blank is a photographer and writer. His photographs have been exhibited at PS1 Contemporary Art Center and White Columns, New York; The Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver; Ville d’Images, Vevey, Switzerland; Lawrimore Project, Seattle; and LaMontagne Gallery,…
By KURT COLE EIDSVIG Kurt Cole Eidsvig is one of the first recipients of Art Writing Workshop fellowship, a collaboration between the Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program and the International Art Critics Association/USA Section (AICA/USA). The…
By MICAH J. MALONE Legal contracts, artists relationships with science, Boston’s slow march into “the Modern” era, as well as “the capitalist, linear escapism… of the Western Psyche” are just a few of the topics covered in Issue #127. I’d…
By STEVE AISHMAN Every hero becomes a bore at last. — Emerson I have never been able to throw. And I mean anything. I can’t throw a baseball, tennis ball, Frisbee, whatever. Don’t ask me to toss you a pen…
By BIG RED CHECK THIS OUT. When was this made? Is this a phallus made from the lights of tailgaters? Imagine if all the pictures on the web were corrupted, but this one managed to survive, along with the entire…
By THOMAS MARQUET #57: The requisite Whitney Biennial strip, but different this time. Thomas Marquet is a cartoonist, sculptor, and critic, based in Brooklyn.
By MARTINA WINDELS BY ENTERING THE ZONE CREATED BY THIS DRAWING, AND FOR THE PERIOD YOU REMAIN THERE, YOU DECLARE AND AGREE THAT THE US CONSITUTION WILL NOT APPLY TO YOU. This statement is applied in bold black letters to…
By NISHA MAXWELL Joshua Deaner’s a town without pigeons. confronts the capitalist, linear escapism that the Western psyche cultivates. Deaner claims to look for moments when landscapes reflect the inner working of the psyche. “ He does exactly that with…
By LIZ HALL Last week, I had the wonderful good fortune of attending two lectures about two different artists who dance with science. On Monday, February 22nd, the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology kicked off its spring lecture…
My idea is to try to eat local for 30 days, or perhaps 60 (if Tehching Hsieh can go a whole year). The point is to attempt an experiment in living the beliefs I have been advocating. Beyond advocacy I…
By BIG RED January 29, 2010 Photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at fivesevendelle project space for the opening of “Dude, where’s my apocalypse?”, featuring Boston artists Jack W. Schneider, Alexander DeMaria, and Todd White. DUDE, WHERE’S MY…
By BIG RED Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 Candid photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at the Davis Museum and Cultural Centerfor the opening of “Something Like Fireworks,” an installation by Stephen Vitiello. Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley…
By STEVE AISHMAN So I’m looking at Titian’s Venus and the Lute Player when I overhear a discussion being led by a teacher and some students: Teacher: “What do you think this painting is about?” Student A: “It seems to…
