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A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE By Steve Aishman When I was little, I remember watching “The Terminator” with my father and saying “Wow, that guy was really strong.” My father replied, “Well, that’s one type of strength. There are many different types of strength and one sign of wisdom is the ability to see less obvious, more subtle strength in those around you.” Ever since then, I’ve done my best to see the less obvious, less showy displays of strength, beauty, wisdom, etc. all around me. I think a lot of artists,…
“THE WHITE CUBE” By Thomas Marquet #40: No one lives forever, except on Facebook. Thomas Marquet is a cartoonist, sculptor, and critic, based in Brooklyn, New York, which is an admittedly unoriginal place to be pursuing any of these things.Get The White Cube every day at Tom’s blog.
ANDY WARHOL: POP POLITICS @ THE CURRIER MUSEUM OF ART By James A. Nadeau This year has been chock full of Warhol. In 2008 Warhol would have celebrated his 80th birthday. This milestone (if one can call a dead man’s birthday such a thing) sparked the conference “Andy at 80? Considering the Warhol Legacies on His 80th Birthday” at Harvard back in October, as well as several exhibitions across North America. You have “Warhol Live: Music and Dance” at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, “Andy Warhol: Other Voices, Other Rooms” at the…
WHERE CAN I FIND SOME NEW ART? By Matthew Nash I’m staring at a blank screen, trying to figure out what to write. I want to write that Boston’s alternative scene is non-existant and that young artists have no place to gain experience, galleries have no place to find risky new work, and established artists have no place to try new ideas. Yet, were I to do so, I would have to confront the much larger issue that, as much as these spaces might be necessary for artists and that Boston cannot become…
2008 ICA FOSTER PRIZE FINALISTS: A CONVERSATION WITH CATHERINE D’IGNAZIO By Matthew Nash On November 12th, the 2008 James and Audrey Foster Prize exhibition opened at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.Catherine D’Ignazio, co-creator of The Institute for Infinitely Small Things (and sometimes known as Kanarinka) is one of the four artists competing for the $25,000 biennial prize, and Big RED publisher Matthew Nash caught up with her at her studio loft in Waltham for a conversation about her pieces It Takes 154,000 Breaths To Evacuate Boston and Exit Strategy. —- Matthew Nash:…
OH COME ALL YE FAITHFUL By Matthew Gamber Happy holidays to all of our loyal Big RED readers. This holiday season, as the economy takes a nose-dive, we at Big RED know how valuable your money is, and how much attention you are paying to the gifts given. So, we hope that you will recognize how important Big RED & Shiny is to the conversation around art in Boston, and support us if you can. For the Big RED faithful, we should also mention that there was a lively debate in the…
2008 ICA FOSTER PRIZE FINALISTS: A CONVERSATION WITH JOE ZANE By James A. Nadeau On November 12th, the 2008 James and Audrey Foster Prize exhibition opened at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. Joe Zane is one of the four artists competing for the $25,000 biennial prize, and Big RED editor James Nadeau caught up with him for a conversation about his work. This is part of a series of interviews with the Foster Prize finalists. —- James Nadeau: One of the first things I want to talk about it process. Much of…
A BAD YEAR FOR SALES, BUT SILVER IS IN THE LINING By Hannah Cole To those of us not on the VIP list, Art Basel Miami Beach is run with all the charm of a POW camp. Having confiscated my camera on the first bag-search, the guards made me return to the coat check a second time to surrender my business cards. Thus primed to despise it, I was surprised to find I had a little empathy left for the gallerists, as they sat largely idle and exhausted in their booths. While gallerists…