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By BIG RED Friday, May 30th, 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Axiom for the opening “From The Electric Studio,” featuring work from MassArt’s SIM program. Featuring work by: Clint Baclawski, Kevin Clancy, Kristin Kyper, Celia Rose Marks, Shawn Moore, Mary Murray, Jack Pattishall, Alexandro Quintana, David Thacker, Joey Tipton, Andrea Zampitella, and Max Del Viscio. Curated by Dana Moser and Fred Wolflink. Axiom Gallery MassArt
By THOMAS MARQUET #34: There’s nothing more thrilling than selling out at an art fair. 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. – See more at: http://www.bigredandshiny.com/cgi-bin/BRS.cgi?section=column&issue=84&article=THE_WHITE_CUBE_14172839#sthash.91UdSGwa.dpuf
By BIG RED June 10th, 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town for the reception & book signing for The Boston Printmakers: Celebrating 60 Years. Boston Printmakers
I spent much of today wandering around Boston with Pixnit, David Boeri and the production team of Radio Boston talking with people about public art. We talked to a number of interesting people about how they see and understand public art in Boston, what they expect of art in general and art in the public sphere in particular, and whether the city should do more to fund and support contemporary work alongside monuments and statuary. We started near Faneuil Hall, near the sculpture of Mayor Kevin White. There we met some teens…
By BIG RED Print this article May 23rd, 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at TruSpace & Desoto Row Gallery in Savannah for the opening of Coming to Terms, with photographs by Robert Wilson. Desoto Row Gallery
By BIG RED Print this article Thursday, May 15th, 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the opening of The 2008 DeCordova Annual Exhibition. Artists included in the exhibition are: Mitchel K. Ahern, Matt Brackett, Leah Gauthier, The Institute for Infinitely Small Things, Niho Kozuru, Eva Lee, Yana Payusova, David Prifti, Kirsten Reynolds, Mark Schoening, Vanessa Tropeano, and Marguerite White DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park “The 2008 DeCordova Annual” is on view May 10 – Aug 17, 2008
By MATTHEW NASH Print this article Lately, there has been a lot of news concerning the closing of a number of galleries in Boston. In issue #80, I wrote about this shake-up, and argued that while it is a shame to lose these galleries, many of whom have been very influential and featured great artwork, this was not a great upset in the larger picture and that Boston’s art scene was still very strong. While I still believe this, certain questions have been raised that cast a shadow over the perception of…
By STEVE AISHMAN Print this article “Our enormously productive economy… demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction, our ego satisfaction, in consumption… We need things consumed, burned up, replaced, and discarded at an ever accelerating rate.” – Victor LeBeau, US retailing analyst, 1955 In the 1950’s, the US economy was radically transformed to become more consumer oriented as President Eisenhower implemented policies based in the belief that recessions could be avoided by “millions…