[please set the video to full screen] De Lejos (From Afar) implies distance: spatial, geographic, emotional, linguistic. A state of being both somewhere and nowhere; distance as the essential obverse of intimacy. De Lejos works with the notion of the…
Living in The United States in the twenty-first century, it is impossible to escape the complexities of the digital body and our rapidly evolving screen culture. Interested in exploring the interface as a place and the challenges and potential that…
This conversation with Andrea Fraser took place in January, on the day that followed her performance of Men on the Line: Men Committed to Feminism, KPFK, 1972 at the ICA Boston. Fraser has gained much recognition for her engagement in…
Lee Mingwei was born in Taiwan and is based out of New York City. He is currently an artist in residence at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum where he has been in residence numerous times since 1999. His ongoing project…
Here is a work of art you can recreate at home. This is Caminhando (Going/Trailing), a 1964 work by Brazilian artist Lygia Clark: Begin by taking a strip of paper, twisting it, and taping the ends together; this forms a…
Thanks to all your initial write-in nominations, Big Red & Shiny is now an official nominee for the Boston Phoenix’s Best of Boston 2013. Although we have only been covering the art scene for about five months since our two…
It has been over two months since I wrote this piece about art school in Ireland. I’m back in the States now, and returning to a teaching semester, but I am still thinking about the community over at Burren College…
Since my last post I’ve been busy … (procrastinating!) updating my website, and making an animation showing my process. But imagine the video clip as an endless loop. (You can view it as a gif here.) The animation was…
I want to believe in ghosts. I want a trace to dwell in the intimate places of someone’s life after she has died. I want these spaces to in some small way to always belong to her; for emotions…
“Poïesis is etymologically derived from the ancient Greek term ποιέω, which means “to make”. This word, the root of our modern “poetry”, was first a verb, an action that transforms and continues the world. Neither technical production nor creation…
Carlos Jiménez Cahua Untitled #65.p (My [Aesthetic] Vocabulary Did This To Me; bicubic), 2012 Tiff file, dimensions variable This is part two of a conversation about the artist-in-residence program sübSamsøn, directed by Camilo Alvarez, interviewed a few days ago. The…
Felix Gonzalez-Torres American (Guaimaru, Cuba 1957 – 1996) “Untitled” (Last Light), 1993 Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John Cowles, by exchange, 2010.472 If you’ve traveled to or lived in Boston during the past two years, you’ve…
Camilo Alvarez sübSamsøn is an artist-in-residence program developed by Samsøn owner and director Camilo Alvarez. An artist is invited to occupy a small studio in the basement of the Gallery’s 450 Harrison Avenue space in Boston for a duration…
The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University in Waltham has been on the rebound since 2009, when former president Jehuda Reinharz recommended that director Michael Rush’s contract not be renewed and the museum’s important collection of modern and contemporary art…
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 Wednesday February 13 Boston Society of Architects, BSA Space, 290 Congress Street, Boston Micro-Housing Unit By…
In this episode of Studio Sessions we talk with artist Anthony Montuori. Anthony is a 2012 MFA graduate from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and earned his BFA from the Montserrat College of Art in…
There’s no question that Bruce Davidson is a lion of twentieth century photography, and with good reason. His silver gelatin prints are atmospheric, transporting viewers to a rough and tumble 1960s Harlem neighborhood. Like the work of Lewis Hine, Walker…
The other day I was browsing though the archives of The Evolving Critic and came across a post from 2011 titled “How to Build an Igloo.” The week I published the post, Boston had been blasted with a winter mega-storm…
Vulnerable, confronted with the camera. The girl knows this is her moment. This is her time to show the world what she is. But the moment comes and she doesn’t know what to tell us. There is a void where…
Non-Event, the Boston-based experimental music concert series, is about to start its 10th season. Over the past decade, it has steadily built a strong reputation and following through its cutting edge programming, and has partnered with many venues and…