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This afternoon I took a short ride on the #39 bus to the Fenway to check out four shows at MassArt and the The School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Overall I was really happy with the experience, and even though the quality of the work ranged from undergraduate pieces to A-list art stars, the work on the display in the Fenway is definitely worth the trip. SMFA’s “2008 Student Annual” is, like many student group shows, a wildly diverse and eclectic mix. Standouts (for me) were Gillian Schroeder’s “Untitled (Snowflakes)”…
Big RED and Shiny has learned that Libbie Shufro, the President and CEO of the Boston Center for the Arts, resigned this week. In mid-February, the BCA’s newest Director of Development quit, after less than six months of employment. After Shufro resigned, that director returned. Shufro resided in her post at the BCA for over six years and oversaw the construction and opening of the Beehive Restuarant and the Calderwood Pavillion, a 35‚000 square feet complex that added two important venues to the Boston theatre community. Both projects leveraged the BCA’s hip…
Last night, James Nadeau, Christian Holland, Greg Cook and I met to record an episode for Bad At Sports. We used the recent AICA Awards as our starting point for discussing the state of the arts in New England — I’ll post a link to the piece once Bad At Sports runs it. Toward the end of the conversation, Greg proposed a new awards event, since AICA will not be hosting their annual awards anymore. This morning he has a post on the topic, asking his readers to contribute their thoughts on…
Tonight Platform2 hosted an event dubbed the Failure Support Group for a crowded hall of artists and friends. The event featured a series of artists presenting various failures from their lives. I am proud to admit that I presented a failure of my own. The event, like many Platform2 events, was a loose and open discussion of a topic that many people confront in their daily lives. Each presentation was limited to 5 minutes, and speakers were shooo-ed off stage by Andi Sutton’s accordion (Sutton learned to play accordion 3 days ago).…
By BIG RED February 10, 2008 Candid snaps from Curators Elizabeth Duffy and Brian Miller’s talk on their show, Office Space, at the New Art Center in Newton. The New Art Center “Office Space” was on view January 14 – February 24, 2008 at The New Art Center. All photos by Christian Holland.
By BIG RED Thursday, February 7th, 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at The Photographic Resource Center for the opening of the 2008 PRC Student Exhibition. Photographic Resource Center “2008 PRC Student Annual” is on view February 8 – March 16, 2008 at the PRC. Images 1-13 by Big RED & Shiny. Images 14-20 courtesy of the PRC. See more at their Flickr page.
By BIG RED Friday, February 22nd, 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Mobius for a performance by Jessica Rylan. Here is a short video of the performance:
By STEVE AISHMAN “The modernist age, of “one way, one truth, one city,” is dead and gone. The postmodernist age of “anything goes” is on the way out. Reason can take us a long way, but it has limits. Let us embrace post-postmodernism – and pray for a better name.” -Tom Turner, City as Landscape, 1986 Some people are not interested in finding out how things work. They go through life, and it never even occurs to them to wonder how their car works or how democracy works or anything else and…