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 Thursday April 18* Boston University, Morse Auditorium, 602 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston Contemporary Perspectives…
Last June, after a decade, I left my perch as a senior planner with an architecture and planning firm in Boston. During that time—partly because of my training, partly because of my own inclinations and intuition—I became more and more…
A print sheet. Informal, in the rhetoric of photographers, a behind the scenes glance. Sharpie on the images. Is she editing or playing? She dives to the ground, over a line penned in after the fact. A line that…
One consistent trend we’ve noticed at BR&S is the strength of our local performance art scene. Several of our recent Journal articles have considered performance art: We’ve explored its differences from theater, published numerous interviews with performers, and what will…
Hello and welcome! I’ll be your artist-in-residence for the next few weeks. Sadly, I won’t actually be residing at the offices of BR&S, nor at the domiciles of its affiliates. You are, however, welcome to imagine me warmly nestled just…
By The Editors April 10, 2013 We need your help! We’re running a short 2-minute reader survey with our advertising partner Nectar Ads to better understand our audience. This information will help us understand the types of people visiting our site,…
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 April Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Tower Auditorium, 621 Huntington Ave, Boston…
Welcome to the newest episode of Studio Sessions with guest Musa Hixson Musa earned a BFA from Hampton University in Virginia, and an MFA from the Pratt Institute in 1998. The use of circles and spheres is a recurring theme…
Do you write? Do you photograph? Have you been thinking of contributing to Our Daily Red blog but are unsure how to take the next step? Are you curious about what we look for in a writer? Don’t worry…
In the heart of Boston, the New England Holocaust Memorial has stood quietly since 1995. On the Freedom Trail, adjacent to Boston City Hall, and near Faneuil Hall, this memorial is virtually unavoidable by Bostonians and tourists alike. While…
When the work of a former graffiti artist enters the hallowed white box of a museum, almost inevitably there will be cries of “Judas.” Yet another in the ICA Boston’s string of exhibitions dedicated to street, or “outsider” artists, Barry…
At first, I was struck by the geometry of the space in the picture. The bright spotlight holds the walls accountable for its mystery. Rectangles and triangles descend upon each other. A void forms between the two halves of…
With what looks like will be the first #FirstFriday of 2013 without cold winds or precipitation, it’s officially time to celebrate the end of Winter with lots of great new and continuing exhibitions and events. This #FirstFriday, head over to…
It was madness, unlike any other event I’ve ever been to at the Museum of Fine Arts. Of course, I am referring to last week’s Boston performance by Raphael Montañez Ortíz entitled WHAT DOES FLUXES HAVE TO DO WITH IT,…
Our Daily Red is pleased to continue our artist-in-residence series titled Inside Out. Every month, a new guest artist will have access to the platform to publish images and jot down thoughts about inspiration, obsession, creative failures and insights.…
Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events, screenings, exhibitions, performances. Here are our choices for you to go and see this week: • Events Tuesday April 2 Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Pozen Center for Interrelated…
The phrases “never talk to strangers” and “stranger danger” are so ingrained within our culture that they’ve become part of our lexicon. Amalia Pica knows this all too well, having lived in Argentina at a time when the country was…
In light of the Boston Globe’s recent article by Cate McQuaid on performance art in Boston, I’ve been searching the archives of Big Red & Shiny for coverage of Boston’s finest performance artists and performances through the years. I wasn’t…
This coming October 10-13, TransCultural Exchange’s biennial conference returns to Boston. Since its inception in 1989, the non-profit, spear-headed by artist and pioneer, Mary Sherman, has organized many global exhibition and artist exchanges. The conference has reached its 4th…