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By MATTHEW GAMBER This month marks our fourth year, and we celebrate it (a week early) with our seventy-sixth issue. No, there won’t be the fanfare parades and community events or reenactments that decorated the American Bicentennial year. But, You can expect some excitement this year from Big RED. A pageant would be something, though. Stay tuned. If you have just started reading Big RED, we have all of our issues available under in our Archive. For a sample of how far we’ve come and how we’ve looked at the visual art…
By STEVE AISHMAN So we all know about grazers. They are the people who show up at openings just for the food. They’re out at every event and seem to never look at the art, but always have a mouth full. You all know who I’m talking about: the guy in the beret with the gray goatee; that woman who looks like a bag lady who I swear is putting cheese into her coat pockets; and of course, the young art students who are actually there for dinner. If you are interested…
By THOMAS MARQUET #28: Jacqueline and Derek discuss their work and careers. 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.
By BIG RED January 2008 Evelyn Rydz sent us this selection of images from some openings in Miami this past January. It’s a great peak at what is happening outside of New England.
By BIG RED Saturday January 26th 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED afternoon on-the-town at the opening of Energize! a multi-channel video playback and sound installation by Walter Wright 119 Gallery
On the night of Boston Mayor Thomas Menino’s 2009 “State of the City” speech, students from Boston Latin high-school gathered to remind the Mayor how important art education is. They rhythmically shouted “S.O.S. Save our Schools” outside Boston’s Faneuil Hall as local dignitaries and municipal officials filed into the building for the Mayor’s annual address. Boston’s students are concerned because arts are typically the first subjects trimmed whenever governmental budget cuts hit public education. The City of Boston expects a $140 million budget deficit this year, and so far the Mayor has…
By BIG RED Friday, January 11th, 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the opening of “Some Sort of Uncertanity” Axiom Gallery Photos by James Manning and Matthew Nash
By BIG RED Saturday, January 12th, 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the opening of ‘Inside the Box’ A Diorama Exhibition curated George Fifield and Phaedra Shanbaum. Howard Yezerski Gallery INSIDE THE BOX January 4 – February 5, 2008 A Diorama Exhibition curated George Fifield and Phaedra Shanbaum Featuring Work by: Antony Flackett, Allison Holt, Susie Silver & Hillary Harp, Empire S.N.A.F.U., Robert Taplin, and Jerry Williams