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By BIG RED Friday September 11th, 2009 Big Red Night on The Town for the opening of “Pulling Back the Curtain” curated by Heidi Kayser and George Fifield. Featuring the work of: Joseph Farbrook, Henry Gwiazda , Megan and Murray McMillan, Nick Montfort, Denyse Murphy, Sarah Rushford, Allison Safford, John Slepian, Jessica Westbrook, and Jonathan Vingiano. Axiom “Pulling Back the Curtain” is on view through Sunday, September 27th. Photos by James Manning.
By BIG RED Friday September 11th, 2009 A BIG RED night on the town at the September ‘First Friday’ openings in Boston’s South End. Photos by James Manning. James Manning is a Boston based independent curator, artist and film producer. He is a regular contributor to Big RED & Shiny.
By BIG RED Thursday September 17th, 2009 A Big Red Night on The Town at the opening of Brian Knep solo exhibition “Exempla” Tufts University Brian Knep “Exempla” is on view through November 15, 2009 at the Koppelman Gallery, Tufts University. Photos by James Manning. James Manning is a Boston based independent curator, artist and film producer. He is a regular contributor to Big RED & Shiny.
By STEVE AISHMAN You shouldn’t be reading this in front of your computer. People have a tendency to keep their computers in clean rooms like offices or on desks with flowers and potpourri. This article should be read in your basement or in the archive section of the library. Somewhere where dust mites thrive. This article should be read somewhere that people try to avoid or cover up with a Glade plug-in. Somewhere with history you can smell, but not nostalgia. I’m not talking about nostalgia. In the 19th century, nostalgia was…
By MICAH J. MALONE The fantastic book “Old Masters and Young Geniuses” does something almost unheard of: Author David Galenson formulates the two distinct archetypes of modern art through economic criteria and data. For Galenson, modern artists can be differentiated with two distinct methods by which they arrive at their major contributions: “aesthetically motivated experience” and “conceptual execution.” In general, “aesthetically motivated” artists are process based and aim to present visual perceptions. Yet, their goals are imprecise, making their procedures tentative and incremental. For painters, the final product may not be as…
By MEGAN BILLMAN Developments in technology and communication in recent decades, have lead to the evolution of new research methods in many fields. Increasingly, specialists have discovered that when they collaborate, or appropriate the tools of another discipline, they can uncover new information. Biologists at MIT have worked with advanced visual practitioners to find more effective ways to represent their research, and artists practicing critical cartography, have successfully employed research methods from geography in order to comment on a wide variety of social trends, to name just two examples. Simultaneously, technological advances…
By JAMES A. NADEAU I want to say right off the bat that I am not a theatre person. I am not trained in its analysis nor have I ever participated in a theatrical production (aside for a brief time where I did lighting design but that is a tech thing so I’m not counting it). I have been known to attend the theatre occasionally but usually only when I am forced by friends. I guess part of my frustration with theatre is that I simply don’t know a lot about it…
By MATTHEW NASH Samantha Fields makes complex and intricate sculptures and installations that are overwhelmingly crafty, undeniably kitschy, and that seem to revel in their beautiful ugliness. This summer, we sat down among the mountains of Afghans, beads, curtains, kitchen sinks and other objects in her studio to talk about her current projects, Girl Scout badges and Easy-Bake Ovens. SF: I started as a fibers major, weaving and dying and using the finest materials. It was forbidden to move into acrylic yarn and things like that. It was always linen and silk,…