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By BIG RED Friday, March 7th, 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the First Friday openings in Boston’s South End. Boston Sculptors Gallery Bernard Toale Gallery Gallery XIV Gallery Kayafas Laconia Gallery
By BIG RED February 14th, 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at NESADSU
By BIG RED Friday, February 29th, 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at The Democracy Center for Platform2’s “Failure Support Group.” Platform2 Photographs by Rob Coshow and courtesy of Platform2.
By BIG RED Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at The Rose Art Museum for the annual AICA Awards ceremony, hosted by Francine Koslow Miller and Michael Rush. A full list of winners, and a short video, can be found at Our Daily RED. AICA (Association Internationale des Critiques d’art) Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University
By STEPHEN V. KOBASA There was a box near his kiln full of all the pots he had shattered, like a collection of shards for Job to scratch his festering skin with. I was neither outraged nor saddened by this, but puzzled. What did he see that I did not? It was that question that returned to me when I learned only a few weeks ago of Brother Thomas Bezanson’s death last August. It had been over forty years since I first stepped into his pottery, then at the Benedictine Priory in…
By STEVE AISHMAN Is this art I’m seeing excellent or awful? In an ongoing quest to develop a system to quantify responses to art, Professor Steve Aishman has developed a new theory, Aesthetic Quantum Ontology, which intersects aesthetics with quantum mechanics. Though I was initially skeptical, after reading his notes, I was convinced of its possibilities (since he was out of lunch money, I had to take his homework instead.) – Ed. —- Steve Aishman Photography Quantum Mechanics Aesthetics Steve Aishman is a former resident of the Phantom Zone. Since his escape…
By MICAH J. MALONE Anissa Mack’s recent exhibition at Small a Projects does something extraordinary: she participates in a “local” community’s practice without irony. Considering her subject matter is local crafters at a country fair, this is no small accomplishment. For her exhibition “The Last Full Weekend Each September” Mack executed every possible craft category for the Durham Fair, the largest agricultural fair in Connecticut, which has occurred every last full weekend of September since 1916. At Small a, we see her efforts displayed, prize ribbons included, in two sets of object…
By DAVID O. AVRUCH The 100-plus lithographs, drypoints, mezzotints, woodcuts and linocuts that comprise Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914-1939, at the MFA until June 1, are labors of love. For example, producing a linocut with four colors meant hand-carving four linoleum blocks, flawlessly alike except where the colors weren’t supposed to overlap, with positive and negative spaces – since it was a print – rendered inversely. Any imprecision meant an offset lineup, like the newsprint bleed of Sunday comics. In most of the works, this intense exactitude belies their subject…