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Jessica Gath reckons she will have typed about 200 letters and postcards by the time she’s done. On a decades-old Royal “Quiet De Luxe” typewriter in immaculate condition, the painter and performance artist will be typing, folding and posting the letters of anyone who requests her services at Meme Gallery in Central Square. To make the process a little more manageable, Gath typed and photocopied forms with partial sentences that participants must select and complete with their own words or phrases. If anyone whose interested can’t make it to the gallery to…
Call (617) 533-1103 or (617) 480-2994 if you have a Warhol to sell! But if you call one of those numbers, each of which has appeared on signs created by artist ‘Hargo,’ you’ll just get a satisfied Hargo. Shortly after Brandeis University announced plans to close the beloved Rose Art Museum last January, you may have noticed conspicuously placed “CA$H FOR YOUR WARHOL” signs around Boston, most notably in front of the Rose itself. Hargo, aka Geoff Hargadon, modeled the signs after the “Cash for Your House” signs that began appearing along…
By BIG RED Saturday, December 12th, 2009 Candid photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at The New England School of Art and Design for the opening of Resa Blatman’s solo exhibition. New England School of Art and Design at Suffolk University “Resa Blatman” is on view December 4 – January 17, 2010 at NESAD. All images are courtesy of the gallery.
By BIG RED First Night 2010 Candid photos from a Big RED first night on-the-town at The Hynes Convention Center, Boston for Kaiju Big Battel, First Night: Final Fight Kaiju Big Battel Sorry Folks No Photos of Dr. Cube or the insane final fight between Dr. Cube and Kung Fu Chicken, turns out that cameras do not like getting sprayed with two cans of beer by Kaiju monsters l! James Manning is a Boston based independent curator, artist, film producer and is a huge fan of Kaiju. He is a regular contributor…
By BIG RED January 8th, 2010 Candid photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at Camel Art Space for the opening of The Promise of Real Estate, featuring work by Carl Gunhouse, Chris McGee, Christine Rogers, Rachel Boillot, Lauren Portada and Tom Marquet. Camel Art Space is located at 722 Metropolitan Ave, in Williamsburg / Greenpoint / Bushwick (Brooklyn) NY. For more information, visit: ArtCat
By KURT COLE EIDSVIG Print this article PoIesis 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 in the romantic sense, poietic work reconciles thought with matter and time, and man with the world. – Wikipedia This column presents the poetry of Kurt Eidsvig, in juxtaposition to the dialogue around art and culture also featured at Big RED & Shiny. This is the…
By STEVE AISHMAN Top Ten Bad New Years Resolutions for a Stereotypical Artist 10. Don’t roll eyes at people who ask if all my clothes are black; just accept that they are jealous and move on. 9. Stop worrying if smoking is killing me; Europeans have always smoked and they’re all hot and skinny. 8. Don’t listen to my mother who keeps “worrying that I’ll always be poor”; realize that I’m a Bohemian – a nuanced class of poor. 7. Less showers and more deodorant will save money on water bill. 6.…
By JAMES NADEAU Ah 2010. It is the beginning of a new year and a new decade, time to throw off the shackles of the “naughts” and begin thinking of the future. Tough as it may seem to think positive when we are in the middle of winter and the economy doesn’t seem to be getting better, this is a good time to reflect on the horrors of the past year and hope that 2010 will be a step forward. The new year (at least from a Western Gregorian perspective) has begun.…