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CHARLES A. LOWE @ CAPE ANN MUSEUM By Kate Laurel Burgess Most “Year in the Life of…” exhibitions focus on a person and their discoveries, triumphs and events of a single calendar cycle. Charles A. Lowe: Gloucester 1975, however, focuses on a “Year in the Life of” an entire city, the city of Gloucester, Massachusetts. Lowe’s work as a photographer for the Gloucester Daily Times sheds light on the beauty, humor and wit in the everyday. Displayed chronologically, the exhibition brings the viewer through the year 1975, starting in January with “Ann Joy…
2009 PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART BIENNIAL By Elena Sarni In a striking change of pace from the past nine Biennials, this year’s Portland Museum of Art Biennial jurors accepted about 1/3 of the number of works as their typical shows. In the course of two days the three judges doggedly pared down 970 applicants and 3,800 works of art to 17 very unique artists and 29 pieces of art. The judges selected for this event are, as Mainers might say, “from away,” and this year consisted of: New York art consultant Elizabeth Burke,…
A LETTER By Matthew Nash Two weeks ago, I was privileged to take part in a pair of discussions about art and the current state of creative practice. The first of these was at Lesley University for their first annual Scholarship Day, where I was part of a panel talk on “The De-skilling of Contemporary Art” moderated by Dr. Stuart Steck. The ideas generated by this talk are being advanced in a series of writings for a future issue of Big RED, and it was exciting to see a crowded room full of…
AGNÈS VARDA: LES VEUVES DE NOIRMOUTIER @ THE SERT GALLERY, CARPENTER CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS By James A. Nadeau The feeling is one of acute sadness. You enter into the gallery and are confronted by fifteen images, one large projection surrounded by 14 small monitors. The center image is of a large table on a beach. It is the kind of table that one sees in an old farmhouse. It is heavy and worn. The ocean is a flat, grey expanse stretching away behind it. Slowly women begin emerging from off screen.…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: SOUTHERN GRAPHICS COUNCIL CONFERENCE 2009, CHICAGO, IL By Big Red March 26th, 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at John David Moody Foundation for the opening of World-A-Rama, Our Stories, the SGC Student Fellowship Award Winners Exhibition; Packer Schopf Gallery for Ce n’est pas spectacle de catacteres (Translation…. This is not a print show.)
A CONVERSATION WITH AA BRONSON By Andi Sutton Big RED & Shiny asked Andi Sutton, a Boston-based performance artist and activist, to interview AA Bronson about activism in the arts. Bronson will be participating in a panel talk as part of the colloquium, “Defining Performativity: Four Perspectives” taking place at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston on Friday, April 3rd, 2009. Andi Sutton: In General Idea, yours was a radical model of living and making art, where the personal was the creative was the political. It seems that you were making visible…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: FAREWELL TO BILL ARNING @ THE LIST By Big Red Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at MIT’s List Visual Art Center for a farewell party for Bill Arning, who is leaving to direct the Contemporary Art Museum of Houston. The List Visual Arts Center Images 1-14 by Mark Linga and courtesy of the List. Images 15-18 by Big RED & Shiny.
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: PLATFORM2 By Big Red Wednesday March 18th 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED lunchtime on-the-town at “SLOW: A Public Butoh Laboratory” organized by Platform2. Choreographer Alissa Cardone, led a group of participants in an extremely slow Butoh dance movements through the Boston Downtown Crossing lunchtime crowd. Platform2 Photos by James Manning.