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BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: TUFTS UNIVERSITY GALLERY By Big Red Thursday, June 4th, 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at The Aidekman Arts Center at Tufts University for the opening of the “Sixth Annual Juried Summer Exhibition.” Tufts University Gallery “Sixth Annual Juried Summer Exhibition” is on view June 4 – August 2, 2009 at the Tufts University Art Gallery.
“THE WHITE CUBE” By Thomas Marquet #49: The worst thing about smoking is talking about smoking. Thomas Marquet is a cartoonist, sculptor, and critic, based in Brooklyn.
BIG RED GOES MOBILE By Big Red The iPhone, Blackberry, and all the other mobile devices that pervade our lives have brought a new mobility to information that never existed before. They are portable, user-friendly and a fun way to communicate via the internet. No doubt some of you are reading this on your mobile device right now! Of all the great features of new mobile technology, one of the more annoying is that most websites (like Big RED & Shiny) are created for the larger screens of desktop and laptop computers, and…
ROUNDTABLE By Big Red Roundtable is a new feature where the staff at Big RED & Shiny respond to questions that are pertinent to the art world, simply on our minds, or have been nagging us. We share the questions with each other and simply write a response. In addition, we feel this is a perfect way to hear from you. If you want to comment and add to the discussion, please do. Or better yet, write us with a Question you would like us to discuss in the future. The first Roundtable…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE By Steve Aishman The recent economic slow down has hit the entire global arts community extremely hard, but strangely, I have not seen many artists using the current state of affairs as the central dialog of their work. This could be because the changes in our economy occurred so recently and quickly, but in general it seems that making art about crisis is one of the fastest and most fundamental ways that people process and respond to any set of circumstances. I have even heard of an…
SAM MESSER, HANGING CORRESPONDENCE @ NIELSEN GALLERY By Nisha Maxwell Editor’s Note: It’s been pointed out that subject of the portraits discussed in this review are not Sam Messer, the creator of the works, but the author Jonathan Safran Foer. We apologize for mistake. Sam Messer’s show “Hanging Correspondence” at The Nielsen Gallery deals with communication as a means of falsely experiencing reality. The works are expressionist, exhibiting detail contrast as its key device, but surprising with delicious spurts of color. Each piece is a self-portrait, with the artist’s face in varying degrees…
THE DUMBING DOWN OF ART By Judy Kermis Blotnick I l-o-o-o-o-ve art. I love thinking about it, talking about it, looking at it, smelling it, love the cozy vibe of my studio, and that I don‘t have to wear mascara there. When I am in art-mode I feel taller, lighter, more balanced; I feel like a freaking rock star. Not only do I love making the art but I really breathe better, maybe breathe through my eyeballs, when I’m looking at art. This is especially true when I don’t understand what I’m…
101 WAYS TO MAKE A “B” MOVIE – X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE By James A. Nadeau There is a scene in Robert Altman’s film The Player where a group of studio executives sit around a conference room discussing moviemaking. Larry Levy (played by Peter Gallagher) suggests that writers be eliminated from the process and they could simply pull stories from the newspapers to make films. Griffin Mill (played by Tim Robbins) responds by saying that “if we could just get rid of these actors and directors, maybe we’ve got something here.” It is a…