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By JAMES A. NADEAU June 22nd, 2010 Candid photos from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston ‘Topping Out’ ceremony on June 22nd held to celebrate of the completion of the steel structure for the new extension at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston. Isabel Stewart Gardner Museum James Nadeau is an independent curator, video artist and writer based in Boston. He is editor of Our Daily RED, the blog of arts journal Big RED & Shiny. He is a graduate of the Comparative Media Studies department at the Massachusetts Institute of…
By MATTHEW NASH Hey, it’s summer! It’s quiet, lazy, hot, humid… Big RED & Shiny is made from the contributions of a community that cares about art, and we are proud of every article we publish. But we also know about the lure of summer, the temptations of the beach and escapes to cooler, lazy locales. I type this letter sunburned from a day on Georges Island, eating fried clams and thinking about nothing in particular. This letter has two purposes. The first is to acknowledge that issue #134 of Big RED…
By STEVE AISHMAN Every summer, Big RED & Shiny offers our Summer Movie Extravaganza! Artists and critics take on Hollywood blockbuster films and it is always fun. This year, as a “teaser” for our upcoming Summer Movie issue, BR&S regulars give us a short video with their own unique take on the movie review. Don’t forget to check back next month for our 7th Annual Summer Movie Extravaganza!!! It will be epic. Click to Play Quicktime version The Aishmans’ review movies on a flight to Korea. 21 is a former resident of the…
By RICKY TUCKER Childhood, unless you’re in the middle of it, is viewed from a voyeuristic vantage point where everyone’s sporting an “I Survived the Mountain” t-shirt. Though our oldest form, childhood’s seen as simply the obvious and mandatory route in which we take to get to the good stuff, Adulthood; Which is sort of odd because in any other race-trajectory, the most crucial points tend to be A and B(start to finish). Life culture suggests that A.5 or B- is the desired destination spot and within that framework Childhood becomes a…
By STEPHEN V. KOBASA When asked his opinion of Western civilization, Gandhi famously replied that he thought it would be a good idea. Peter Waite¹s sculptures are evidence of it being a bad one. These are miniatures of the frenzy beneath our fantasies of order, something like the munching swirl of ghastly insects just below the surface of the manicured lawns in David Lynch¹s Blue Velvet suburb. Although the label commentary for the piece entitled Temple makes the obviously clever suggestion that its colorful mishmash is closer to what the Greek original…
By ROBERT MOELLER Annette Lemieux needs little introduction to anyone paying attention to contemporary art over the last three decades or so. Her work can be found in the permanent collections of Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art, to name just a few. A mid-career retrospective of her work will open in October at the Krannert Art Museum before traveling to the Worcester Art Museum. We spoke recently. RM: The prospect of a retrospective is interesting. How does being tugged back in time change your…
By BIG RED Thursday, June 24th, 2010 Candid photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at Suffolk University Art Gallery at The New England School of Art and Design for the opening of On The Road, “a group exhibition of journals, writings and a range of artwork created during travel”. Featuring artwork by Hannah Cole, Chris Faust, Gretjen Helene & Doug Weathersby. Suffolk University Art Gallery “On The Road” is on view June 24 – August 27, 2010 at NESAD Gallery. All images are courtesy of the NESAD Gallery.
By BIG RED Saturday, June 19th, 2010. Candid photos from a Big RED night on-the-town for the inaugural opening at at RUGG Residency for Audrey M. Hope’s installation Grottensaal Living Wall. “Grottensaal Living Wall” was created and on view at RUGG Residency in Allston, MA from May 22nd – June 19th, 2010. All images are courtesy of the artist and RUGG Residency