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By BIG RED One of the most active parts of Big RED & Shiny has always been our Listings section, where galleries, curators and other organizations post their latest announcements to let you know what’s going on. The new Big RED & Shiny look puts all this information at your fingertips, so you can find your way to the art you want to see and the opportunities you seek. We’ve also added a whole new category of listings: Classes & Workshops! Are you looking for an evening class or weekend workshop? This…
By JUDY KERMIS BLOTNICK Brian Knep, 41, a Boston media artist, paints with his computer. He has perfected his technology to interact with the viewer, which has brought him an impressive amount of critical success since 2004. Just this month he scored the New England Art Award for new media for his interactive installation Exempla at Tufts’ Koppelman Gallery that addressed choices that we as humans make. In speaking with Knep one is immediately struck by his intellectual athleticism and the gentle humor with which he views his work. He is one…
By SHANE GODFREY There has been a large surge of DIY (do it yourself) projects thanks to the current recession, lack of money and the internet. With the rise in popularity of sites like Lifehacker and Design Sponge, DIY projects have grown a substantial amount since the mid 2000s. Want to know how to open a wine bottle with a shoe? How to make books into floating bookshelves? Shoot and edit an entire film? It is available online. It has become easier than ever to shoot, produce, edit, and distribute movies right…
By ALAN REID Josh Faught is sculptor who works in a variety of sculptural media, focusing primarily on how textiles interact with cultural metaphors. While the Light Lasts, his current show, is on view at Lisa Cooley Fine Art, in New York. Additionally, he currently has a yearlong exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum. Alan Reid caught up with Faught earlier this month for a discussion on his current work. * Alan Reid: You’re work is so fully concerned with craft: how did you get interested in this process; and to define, are you…
By JULIE NOVAKOFF Over the past four decades, Eli and Edythe Broad, noted Los Angeles philanthropists and art collectors, have amassed one of the largest collections of postwar and contemporary art in the world. Their two collections, The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Collection and The Broad Art Foundation are comprised of approximately 2,000 works of art by over 150 artists. The Broad Art Foundation operates as a “lending library” for smaller museums and university galleries. Typically, larger institutions will ignore loan requests by smaller organizations if the exchange is unlikely to…
By ANNIE GOTTLIEB Back in the heady early days of feminism’s second wave, the movement’s theorists poured forth torrents of words about the male monopoly on public power — economic, political, religious, cultural. If you had grown up in a world where the politicians, doctors, lawyers, novelists, scientists, artists, ministers, bankers and entrepreneurs were overwhelmingly male and where such aspirations on the part of a girl were not only against all odds but officially (by the reigning Freudians) ruled unnatural, these scalding exposés and analyses couldn’t help but strike a chord, especially…
By JASON DEAN There are certain places we have come to expect will be open 24 hours a day: gas stations, grocery stores, the occasional fast food restaurant. “Normal Business Hours” are an idea we left behind in the 90s, along with home phones and dial-up modems. Our productive hours of ‘work’ are increasingly creeping into our personal lives, and just as we are expected to be available at all times, we demand the same from the stores we patronize. They are only too happy to oblige our every impulse. Best Buy…
The artist John Osorio Buck is organizing people to make stoves. In his Stove Lab: A Collaborative Studio project, Buck wants to encourage new approaches to potential responses to emergency situations (e.g. life in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, which was a source of information for the project), ecological sustainability and ideas surrounding art and cultural production. Buck is no stranger to self-reliance and creative means of sustainable living, both ecologically and economically. He is one of the two artists responsible for the Boston Raft, a floating domicile/concept work about living in neighborhoods…