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ANDY WARHOL: SCREEN TESTS & PHOTOGRAPHS @ COLBY MUSEUM By Elena Sarni Despite my Maine-based starting point, and rather heavy, highway driving foot, it was still a two-hour trip to Waterville, Maine, home to Colby College. But, it’s Warhol! “Andy Warhol Screen Tests and Photographs” consists of a group of Polaroids and black-and-white prints that were selected from 150 photographs given to Colby in 2007. The gift was part of the twentieth anniversary celebration of the Andy Warhol Foundation’s Photographic Legacy Program, which distributed 28,543 Polaroids and gelatin prints among 183 college and…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: FP3 GALLERY By Big Red May 8th, 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at FP3 Gallery for the opening of Cristi Rinklin’s new exhibition “Boundless”. Cristi Rinklin: Boundless” is on view May 8th- August 15, 2009 at FP3 Gallery. Photos courtesy of FP3 Gallery.
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. Enjoy! Q: Do you…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: THE DISTILLERY STUDIOS,SOUTH BOSTON By Big Red Sunday May 10th, 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the Distillery Studios in South Boston for the Plaform2 workshop: ICONography of Climate Change. This event is part of the Boston Cyberarts Festival. Platform2
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: BOSTON CYBERARTS GALA EVENT By Big Red Friday May 8th 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the CyberArts Gala at the IBM Research Center in Cambridge. Boston CyberArts
ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE @ THE CUTLER MAJESTIC THEATRE By Chelsey Philpot On Tuesday, April 28th the Celebrity Series of Boston once again brought the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater troupe up from their New York City base. The seats at the Opera House were dotted with men in coats and ties and florally perfumed ladies in cocktail dresses smelling like very sweet floral perfumes. The folksose who had attended the a dinner at the Ritz-Carlton Boston Common before the show as part of the evening’s “Standing O! Gala” fundraising event, carried toted…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: AXIOM GALLERY By Big Red Saturday May 9th, 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Axiom for a performance by Ensemble Robot. This event is part of the Boston Cyberarts Festival. Axiom Gallery Ensemble Robot
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE By Steve Aishman Why I love abstract art and think it is getting better. “The eye is the natural master of pattern recognition. The eye demands satisfaction by invoking in us strong feelings of puzzlement.” – John Whitney (IBM’s first Artist in Residence in 1966) As a science, pattern recognition seems like a simple to understand statistical model of machine learning where raw data is observed and then classified. However, there are some fascinating philosophical implications to pattern recognition as the science is applied to human…