By The Editors October 12, 2012 Big Red & Shiny would like to congratulate Suara Welitoff on the news that she has been awarded this year’s Rappaport Prize by the deCordova! The Rappaport Prize is awarded annually to…
By The Editors October 12, 2012 Luther Price is hot shit these days… cue list of credits. He’s also an artist with remarkable discipline, dedication and modesty who lives and works in a small beach-front cottage in Revere. So his…
By The Editors October 11, 2012 We’ve all seen Boston’s city hall, and we’ve all got an opinion about it. The haters believe that it’s a symbol of Boston city government’s insanity, and the lovers think that it’s a…
By John Pyper October 10, 2012 I remember the day that George Herbert Walker Bush ordered the invasion of Kuwait/Iraq and began what is now called the Gulf War. I was in high school, and the entire population…
By Stephanie Cardon October 10, 2012 For our first issue of the revamped Big Red & Shiny, Ben Street, curator, art writer, lecturer and co-creator of the Sluice Art Fair, London, has been ruminating on the semantically slippery state,…
By The Editors October 09, 2012 Chances are you or a loved one went to an art school for undergrad. If you did, it’s also probable that you went through a foundations course your first year. This “painters…
Welcome to the first of many interviews that Matthew Kuhlman has conducted with various artists from the Boston area! We’ll be publishing them twice a month, and hope you like them. You can download them directly from us, just listen…
By Lin A. Nulman October 09, 2012 Theater semiotics, one branch of the intellectual and theoretical pursuit of that art, analyzes stage elements as a chain of “signs” that signify meaning. This branch is tangled in undergrowth because…
By Anulfo Baez October 09, 2012 In Maine, the year 2012 has been unofficially designated as the year of Winslow Homer. On September 25, 2012, after a nearly five year, $2.8 million dollar restoration, the Portland Museum of Art…
By The Editors October 09, 2012 Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery Events/Screenings/Exhibitions/Performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see this week: • Events Tuesday 9 October Montserrat College of Art, Montserrat, MA Hardie…
By Sarah Sulistio October 08, 2012 On Friday October 5, Brazilian contemporary artist Vik Muniz was invited to speak at Boston University. Muniz is renowned for his documentary Waste Land, on his photographic portraits of trash pickers living…
By Stephanie Cardon October 06, 2012 One of the attractions of living in a university town is the open-door policy many schools have towards evening lectures: the savvy can gate-crash their way to a free education on any…
By Bonnie B October 06, 2012 In one of three local lectures in the same week, artist Vik Muniz spoke on October 5 at BU as part of the College of Fine Arts’ Contemporary Perspectives lecture series. Over…
Tears of the Black Tiger (Fah Talai Jone), 2000, Directed by Wisit Sasanatieng Fah Talai Jone is one of my favorite films, and I just realized it’s found a way into my newest paintings. I saw it in Bangkok when…
We had some interesting responses to our report that Hartford Art School and Hartford University were facing cuts to their humanities and arts programming in favor of more lucrative programs. I personally had a few messages both from concerned readers…
By The Editors October 04, 2012 Richard Phillips became the second artist in recent history to create a portrait of a presidential candidate. The Marblehead, Mass.-born, New York City-based artist today debuted his painting “Vote Mitt Romney” at the…
By The Editors October 03, 2012 Dear readers and supporters & to those of you who were present on Saturday night & to the people and venues that made it happen: our heartfelt thanks. The Big Red &…
“Performance art in Boston has always been under the radar,” says Sandrine Schaefer, co-founder of The Present Tense and co-curator with Philip Fryer of the recent Rough Trade II, a performance art exchange between Boston and Chicago. Often coming to…
One of the more enigmatic artists from Lucy Lippard’s Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 has to be Lee Lozano. She dropped out of the art world not long after Lippard’s book was published,…
