By STEVE AISHMAN Every summer, Big RED & Shiny offers our Summer Movie Extravaganza! Artists and critics take on Hollywood blockbuster films and it is always fun. This year, as a “teaser” for our upcoming Summer Movie issue, BR&S regulars…
By RICKY TUCKER Childhood, unless you’re in the middle of it, is viewed from a voyeuristic vantage point where everyone’s sporting an “I Survived the Mountain” t-shirt. Though our oldest form, childhood’s seen as simply the obvious and mandatory route…
By STEPHEN V. KOBASA When asked his opinion of Western civilization, Gandhi famously replied that he thought it would be a good idea. Peter Waite¹s sculptures are evidence of it being a bad one. These are miniatures of the frenzy…
By ROBERT MOELLER Annette Lemieux needs little introduction to anyone paying attention to contemporary art over the last three decades or so. Her work can be found in the permanent collections of Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum, and…
By BIG RED Thursday, June 24th, 2010 Candid photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at Suffolk University Art Gallery at The New England School of Art and Design for the opening of On The Road, “a group exhibition of…
By BIG RED Saturday, June 19th, 2010. Candid photos from a Big RED night on-the-town for the inaugural opening at at RUGG Residency for Audrey M. Hope’s installation Grottensaal Living Wall. “Grottensaal Living Wall” was created and on view at…
By STEVE AISHMAN Confessions of an Art Nerd Throughout my life I have been called a nerd. This has always been fine for me because I am a nerd. In fact I am multiple types of nerd. To make things…
By MICAH J. MALONE In most biographical accounts of the late Al Taylor his identification and origin as a painter, as opposed to a sculptor, is almost always noted. Also, and more pertinent to my interests, was his trip to…
By KURT COLE EIDSVIG What could be left to say about Claude Monet? The iconic Impressionist has been the subject of major shows dotting the globe for each of the past ten-plus years, many times simultaneously. There are notepads, calendars,…
By JOHN PYPER The New England Conservatory and the Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice (SICPP) demonstrated their commitment to new music by devoting an evening at Jordan Hall to 20th century German composers. Steffen Schleiermacher, a guest artist for…
By JAMES NADEAU So it is finally upon us: the reality show about artists and the art world brought to us by the Bravo Network and Sara Jessica Parker. I am having a hard time reconciling my disdain for Work…
By BIG RED Friday, June 14th, 2010 Candid photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at the galleries of SoWa for the First Friday openings. Gallery Kayafas Steven Zevitas Gallery/OSP Laconia Gallery
By ROBERT MOELLER Tavares Strachan is perhaps best known for a sculptural project called The Distance Between What We Have and What We Want (Arctic Ice Project). It is essentially a refrigerated block of Arctic river ice, with electricity provided…
By JESS T. DUGAN A few weeks ago, I saw the newly-released documentary Play in the Gray at the Brattle Theatre as part of the Boston LGBT Film Festival. First-time filmmaker Kaitlin Meelia spent several years filming the members of…
By MARTINA WINDELS Humor is a funny thing – sometimes. It can make you laugh, it can make you chuckle or it may repulse you. It may be silly, graphic, subtle, and offensive. Sometimes it is loud, at other times…
By CHRIS VOLPE Christopher Lamberg-Karlovsky lives and works just outside of Boston proper. He received an MFA from Boston University in 1992, and an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1999. His work was…
By JULIE NOVAKOFF Emily Eveleth is a New England based painter. She is represented by Howard Yezerski Gallery in Boston, and Danese in New York. She spoke with Julie Novakoff this past May. Julie Novakoff: The lighting in your paintings…
By KURT COLE EIDSVIG People are always wondering at the last word in painting. What was left after Picasso? Was de Kooning destined to be the last hurrah? It seems every generation has one last gasp that is predicted to…
By BIG RED May 13th, 2010 Photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at various galleries in 101 Front Street Galleries, in Brooklyn, NY during the New York Photo Festival, May 12-16, 2010: Kris Graves Projects , Umbrage Editions, Klompching…
By JIM MANNING Saturday May 8th 2010 Video from a Big RED night on-the-town at the return of the Mobius Art Party ArtRages, “SURREALESTATE” The 2010 Mobius ArtRages Surrealestate Art Party took place Saturday May 8th, 8pm – 1am at…