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Can you believe that it’s already #FirstFriday? Tonight, the SOWA District art galleries (450 Harrison Street) will be open with new and continuing shows from 5:30pm-8pm. The SOWA galleries are, as always, FREE and open to the public of all ages. Additionally the Boston Center for the Arts’ Mills Gallery opens tonight with their exhibition The Future of the Past: Encaustic Art in the 21st Century. The reception begins at 6:00pm. The ICA will be throwing their First Friday counterpart from 5:00pm-10pm. This month they celebrate fashion with FASHION FORWARD, with an…
Just months after trying their hand at the over decade-long tradition, the ICA Boston has joined forces with the SOWA district galleries to throw what they’re calling a “citywide First Friday”. And as a subtle reminder that none of us are getting any younger they’ve christened this month’s activities First Fridays: Back to School. To mark the occasion, the ICA will offer guest DJs, live performance, curator-led tours of their permanent collection and Dianna Molzan exhibition and special “Back to School appletinis” which will be served to evoke our old college days…
Greetings everyone! So this is the new BR&S and we couldn’t be more excited to be back! Our relaunch has been a long journey of invisible labor that started around Feb of 2012, but it was completely worth it. With a new look, new editors, and new options, it’s as new to us as it is to you, so please be patient as we learn how to use this website. What’s changed, you ask? Almost everything. Since BR&S was first designed in 2003, there have been serious changes in the technology available…
Wherein the reader learns of their part in this story. When the practical reality of running a Journal-Blog set in, the question of how to replenish our coffers came up. We turned to Kickstarter because its model offers a lovely parallel to the way we see Big Red & Shiny operating: as a community-sourced platform built on exchange and participation. The snappy, snazzy video was a pretty hilarious first multimedia project for BR&S. The editors brainstormed the idea of red balloons inflating, squeaking and popping; Dillon Buss shot the footage and DJ…
By Clint Baclawski September 04, 2012 Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events/screenings/receptions/performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see this week: • Events Friday 7 September The fall’s first First Friday. Galleries are open along Harrison Avenue / Thayer Street in Boston’s South End. 5-8pm. / Free Saturday 8 September White Walls Boston presents Arboretum, a series of video-gardens that will be projected out the back of a box truck during the night of September 8th, within the greater Boston area. Exact locations /…
In 2003, artists Matthew Nash and C. Sean Horton began piecing together the concept for web-based publication that would eventually become Big Red & Shiny. It would be a forum for criticism and discussion on contemporary art in Boston that would compensate what they saw as a dearth of arts writing in the city and region. Nine years later, the Boston Globe and Phoenix, stand emaciated by recession and a new media ecosystem dominated by the internet while the Herald is no longer even worth mentioning. Boston’s three biggest print publications couldn’t…
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you’ve heard of the campaign to save the “old” Prentice Women’s Hospital in Chicago. The movement to save from demolition one of modernism’s boldest, most unusual and least understood concrete buildings gains momentum as time goes by—but time, as we know it, is either a friend or a foe of preservation. The official petition to stop the demolition of this modern icon has over 3,000 supporters. Scholars, preservationists and architects such as Pritzker Architecture Prize winners Frank Gehry, Robert Venturi, Tadao Ando, Jacques Herzog, Pierre…
According to John Ochsendorf author of Guastavino Vaulting: The Art of Structural Tile, “Rafael Guastavino was one of the greatest American architects you’ve never heard of. (1)” An immigrant from Spain, Rafael Guastavino Sr. arrived to America in 1881 with his nine year old son, Rafael Guastavino, Jr., his housekeeper and her two daughters. Both father and son rose to architectural fame with their fireproof construction vaulting system, at a time when major cities across the country were being ravaged by fires. It was the growing public concern for fire prevention that…