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…
By JASON DEAN There are certain places we have come to expect will be open 24 hours a day: gas stations, grocery stores, the occasional fast food restaurant. “Normal Business Hours” are an idea we left behind in the 90s,…
The artist John Osorio Buck is organizing people to make stoves. In his Stove Lab: A Collaborative Studio project, Buck wants to encourage new approaches to potential responses to emergency situations (e.g. life in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, which was…
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston has announced nine artists as finalists for the 2010 James and Audrey Foster Prize. The honorees for the the museum’s biennial award and exhibition for Boston-area artists are Robert de St. Phalle, Eirik Johnson,…
By BIG RED January 22, 2009 Candid photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at GALLERY for the lecture and opening of Domesticated: Modern Dioramas of Our New Natural History, Photographs by Amy Stein, at the Harvard Museum on Natural…
By MICAH J. MALONE For the past few columns I have focused on artists who began their careers – and built reputations – with work marked by a ruthless economy of means. Many artists who start with low cost materials…
By STEVE AISHMAN Artists and giving to charitable causes seem to go well together. The biennial ARTcetera art auction is a great example where Boston’s visual arts community has donated artwork and time to support the AIDS Action Committee since…
By CHELSEY PHILPOT The LINES Ballet’s Friday night performance at the Institute of Contemporary Art began with false informality: the dancers, wearing sweatpants and t-shirts, warmed up on stage as the sold out audience took their seats. Though this display…
By JAMES A. NADEAU The recent shifting in the curatorial make up of Boston has caused me to stop and reflect upon just what these institutions actually mean to us. With curators moving from one museum to another or an…