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BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: HALLSPACE By Big Red Saturday April 18th and Sunday April 27th 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Hall Space for the opening of “Bebe Beard: With or Without You.” HallSpace Images by James Manning and courtesy of Boston Cyberarts.
10 YEARS OF CYBERARTS: A Q&A WITH GEORGE FIFIELD By Nina J. Berger Cyber artists from all over the world converge on Boston when the sixth Boston Cyberarts Festival opens on April 24. Since 1999, its director, George Fifield, has corralled more than 60 diverse cultural and educational institutions in the Boston area into presenting exhibitions, events, performances, discussions and experiments that explore where technology intersects the arts. NB: Why did you start the Boston Cyberarts Festival? GF: I became aware writing a column for Art New England on art and technology of…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: BOSTON COLLEGE &HOWARD YEZERSKI GALLERY By Big Red Saturday April 25th, 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED afternoon on-the-town at Boston College for the opening of Georgie Friedman’s ‘Geyser’ and Howard Yezerski for the opening of John Powell’s solo exhibit. Howard Yezerski Gallery Georgie Friedman Images by James Manning and courtesy of Boston Cyberarts.
For many artists and organizations, LEF Foundation’s change in funding priorities has reduced and limited opportunities for funding in New England. The good news is that Louisa McCall, formerly of LEF, and Marie Cieri, are co-directing a new project called “Artists In Context.” Their announcement says that “AIC focuses on socially engaged emerging art forms, reflecting the times and the unique set of circumstances that make Boston and New England fertile territory for idea-generation, problem-solving, experimentation, innovation and change.” “Artists In Context” was formed with seed money from LEF, and is designed…
IRVING HAYNES: ABSTRACTIONS @ NEWPORT ART MUSEUM By Joe Leduc Striving to explain to an interviewer why he continued to paint the same subject, an elderly Josef Albers proudly reached back to the exacting standard set at the beginning of modernism: When I want to speak about why I am doing the same thing now, which is squares, for – how long? – 19 years. Because there is no final solution in any visual formulation. Although this may be just a belief on my part, I have some assurances that that is not…
A Q&A WITH YASSY GOLDIE By Christian Holland Images and the persona of Yassy Goldie, the Master Representative for the Golden Jasmine Yeti Dancers, have been rendered ad infinitum by the artist collective The Miracle 5 for the exhibition “”Holy GJYDhad!” currently on view in Space 242, in Boston’s South End. There is some suspicion that Goldie is only an absurd figment of The Miracle 5’s frequently sardonic body of work, but we’re not hear to be detectives. Big RED and Shiny’s Christian Holland set out to get to know Yassy Goldie a…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE By Steve Aishman So, this is the problem with language. I went to a party the other day where I really only knew the host, everyone else was a stranger. This is how my conversation with the first person went: “Hi, I’m Steve” “Hi, I’m John. What do you do?” “I’m a photographer.” “Oh! Do you do family portraits, because my family could use a new one…” “No, I’m a fine art photographer. I make photos for display in museums.” “You mean you take pictures of art…
GALLERY HOPPING IN NEW ORLEANS By James A. Nadeau This past week I spent some time in New Orleans for a conference. As I like to do whenever visiting a new city (or even an old one) I find the local gallery scene and check out the work being shown. I also had an ulterior motive, as I wanted to talk to gallerists and artists about the scene and recruit some of them to talk about their experiences post-Katrina. There has been a lot of mainstream media coverage on the artistic heritage of…