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Before BR&S got back into full swing, I got a bit of a break and took off to see friends and art up and down the eastern seaboard. Along the way I stopped at Real Art Ways in Hartford, who currently have a number of shows that you should consider seeing, each for very different reasons. There are effectively three shows, two are solo shows for Ronnie Rysz and Gail Biederman, and three artists grouped together to explore is what it means to be masculine, or maybe how men acquire their masculinity.…
Sure, the Greater Boston area is known for world-class museums and art galleries. But it is also home to over 100 colleges and universities, many of which offer exceptional arts programming. September is, of course, when students return for classes and parents make their annual tourist pilgrimage to Boston where they fill in the gaps between loading a UHaul truck and unloading that truck with meaningful cultural excursions. The Big Red & Shiny Listings feature a great sampling of what is on view for the newly-returned students and their families — not…
There have been a number of changes to Big Red & Shiny for our re-launch, and I’m sure you’ve noticed that one of the biggest is that we are now partnering with Nectar Ads to fund our endeavor. We at Big Red are very excited about working with Nectar Ads and I wanted to take a few moments, as publisher, to publicly thank Veken Gueyikian and the Nectar Ads team. We feel that our participation in their network will bring meaningful and informative advertising to the Big Red audience and will go…
Wow, it has been quite a week! As I’m sure you’ve noticed (because you are reading this) Big Red & Shiny is back. We have a new team, a new look and a renewed focus on art in Boston. I couldn’t be more thrilled! Our new team is full of ideas, experience, and motivation to make the new BR&S their own and to live up to the vision and optimism that is the heart of the art culture in our city. They are artists with real vision, and I’m confident they will…
In Boston, apparently. At the Gardner Museum. In the tiny hallway that served as its former entrance, now hyperbolically renamed Fenway Gallery. It took me and three volunteers fifteen minutes to find the exhibit. Why would the work of an internationally sought-after artist, represented by New York’s Luhring Augustine Gallery and London’s Thomas Dane, be relegated to the poorly lit walls of a vestibule? Why, to my knowledge, has no Boston art publication written about her 2008-2011 residency at the Gardner, aptly scheduled during its expansion, nor responded to the thoughtful photographic…
Tonight marks the first set of exhibition openings of the academic season and as we already reported, the ICA and SOWA are primed to make this a big one by dubbing it : First Friday: Back to School. The SOWA District art galleries (450 Harrison Street) will be open from 5:30pm-8pm and the ICA will be throwing their counterpart from 5:30pm-9pm. The ICA is $15 to non-members and is 21+ only for this event. The SOWA galleries are, as always, FREE and open to the public of all ages. Remember that there…
For centuries, hats have been used to define one’s social and cultural identity—and like other fashion accessories (ahem, shoes anyone?), they can make or break one’s outfit. Just look at images of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee or the Kentucky Derby for some examples. Hats such as bonnets, silk turbans, embroidered crowns, including those worn by the likes of Empress Eugenie, wife of Napoleon III, Sarah Jessica Parker’s character in Sex and the City and Björk all take center stage in the Peabody Essex Museum’s latest fashion exhibit. Hats: An Anthology by Stephen…
After a nearly three-year run, NK Gallery, one of the SOWA District’s younger art galleries, will celebrate its final show and close its doors. Established in 2010, Kathy Halamka and Natacha Sochat opened the gallery as patrons of contemporary artists, striving to showcase a diverse range of approaches to contemporary art and attempting to catalyze the critical dialogue of the Boston art scene by encouraging transparency and honest discourse. NKG’s final exhibitions will be Cut and Glitter, curated by Beth Kantrowitz and featuring a collaborative exhibition of the works of Kathleen O’Hara…