The Newport summer is marked by a few large music festivals, events that have drawn the biggest names in jazz and folk to the island since 1954 and 1959, respectively. This year the Newport Art Museum has decided to join…
Pregnancy and parenting can create serious changes to an artist’s process. As installation maestro Sarah Sze elaborated on a 2012 exhibit in London: “The pieces in this show appear to measure space, or time, and now that I have two…
Welcome to Six Block Rule, a series of conversations considering art openings, panels, exhibitions and more happening in the Boston area. Titled after the idea that viewers should take that distance before making critical comment, Six Block Rule seeks to…
Born out of a conversation in 2002 between an SMFA graduate student (Sean Horton) and instructor (Matthew Nash) about the viability of bringing arts coverage in Boston to the web, Big Red & Shiny has since been a labor of…
Last week, BR&S editors Stephanie Cardon and Leah Triplett sat down with Michael Mittelman at his Waltham Street studio in Boston, where, until recently, ASPECT Magazine was published. Mittelman founded ASPECT: The Chronicle of New Media Art in 2003 as…
This First Friday, the ICA Boston hosts a special event inspired by their current exhibition of California-based artist Barry McGee. Old-school surf videos mark the night as well as a liver performance by surf-rock band Abadabad. While there make…
This First Friday, the ICA Boston hosts a special event to kick off the summer featuring artist-designed mini golf greens by Maria Molteni and Pat Falco, as well as a new Pop-Up Oyster Bar. Stick around for tours of…
In light of the Boston Globe’s recent article by Cate McQuaid on performance art in Boston, I’ve been searching the archives of Big Red & Shiny for coverage of Boston’s finest performance artists and performances through the years. I wasn’t…
The editors would like to congratulate Sarah Braman as the MFA has announced that she was awarded the Maud Morgan prize for 2013. Established in 1993, the Maud Morgan prize recognizes women’s contributions “to the contemporary arts landscape” on…
By Matthew Nash October 15, 2012 This is just a quick housekeeping note to announce that Big Red & Shiny has upgraded our comment system to LiveFyre. We hope this will offer you a better and more conversational experience…
The idea that there is a privileged relationship between the relatively young medium of installation art and the ancient practice of architecture is far from revolutionary. For decades artists and architects have explored shared interests through the medium of installation;…
Wherein the reader learns of their part in this story. When the practical reality of running a Journal-Blog set in, the question of how to replenish our coffers came up. We turned to Kickstarter because its model offers a lovely…
In 2003, artists Matthew Nash and C. Sean Horton began piecing together the concept for web-based publication that would eventually become Big Red & Shiny. It would be a forum for criticism and discussion on contemporary art in Boston that…
By MATTHEW GAMBER It was an interesting experiment: A rotating volunteer staff of one publisher, a few editors, and dozens of contributors (many whom never met in person) collaborate on a site devoted to topics related to local visual art.…
By MATTHEW NASH On February 15 of 2004, Big RED & Shiny launched our first issue. On August 16 of 2010, we launch our last. I have been doing BR&S for a long time. I’ve written every line of code…
A big hole will appear on Newbury Street this summer. At 130 Newbury Street, to be specific, where the Judi Rotenberg Gallery will have existed for decades. The gallery will close its doors for good on June 19, 2010, ending…
By BIG RED Friday, April 2nd, 2010 Candid photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at the galleries of SoWa for the First Friday openings. Samson Projects Steven Zevitas Gallery/OSP Gallery Kayafas Carroll and Sons Howard Yezerski Gallery NK Gallery…
By MATTHEW NASH Currently on view at The New England Gallery of Latin America Art, X ME LAB is a collection of assemblages, installations and video projects by artist Vela Phelan. Recently, Phelan took me on a tour of the…
By MATTHEW NASH Georgie Friedman is a video installation artist whose multi-channel pieces are both contemplative and engaging. Her latest piece,Dark Swell, can be seen as part of the 2010 DeCordova Biennial. We met up for tea and scones at…
