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By THOMAS MARQUET #25: Perhaps he should have a more interesting life. “The White Cube” comics can be read in series in the Big RED & Shiny Collections section. 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.
By STEVE AISHMAN Based on the Cosmic Calendar, Prof. Steve Aishman has prepared his astrological predictions for people going to Miami Basel 2007. Find your astrological sign and have your future revealed to you! • ♁ The Collector: You will feel pissed because the once elite fairs have doubled in size to over 50,000 visitors. Middle-to-Upper-Class-Riff-Raff (or MUCRRs for short) will be everywhere. You will decide that Miami Basel was much cooler two years ago before anyone with a little money to spend learned that prestige could be bought while on vacation…
By ANONYMOUS ART DEALER Q: How do Boston galleries generally handle framing for a solo show. Who usually pays for it, the artist or the gallery? A: The multiple answers to this question can make your head spin. All galleries will handle the framing issue differently, so I’ll try and simplify things and list a few common scenarios that any artist should be prepared to deal with. Keep in mind, this is really for solo exhibitions. If you’re in a group show, you will most likely pay for framing, and there will…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND The following questions were submitted to Big RED and Shiny by artists and organizers in the arts in Massachusetts. The questions were sent to four members of the state’s legislature and State Treasure Timothy Cahill. Each one of legislators holds a key policymaking post in our state’s government for the support of artists and the “Creative Economy” and, along with the Treasurer, sponsored the first annual Artists Under the Dome event in November. They are: Senator Brian A. Joyce Joint Committee on Tourism, Arts and Cultural Development, Chairman Representative…
By MATTHEW GAMBER T’was the first week of December, and all through the house, the heater was grinding, disturbing the mouse. Equally enchanting is the first New England snowfall of the season (as I write) that have to walk home through it this evening. On the indoors (or outside, near lamp post, tramping the NewburyOpen.net), warm yourself near a CPU exhaust fan, keep your hands hot on a USB powered coffee mug, and serve up our sampling for No. 73: Articles – we have an interview with photographer Michael Schmelling from Shane…
By BIG RED Thursday, November 13th, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Simmons College Trustman Gallery for the opening of “Lush: Deborah Bohnert and Rachel Dayson-Levy”
By BIG RED December 1, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED day on-the-town at Open Studios at the historic Fenway Studios, located at 30 Ipswich St. Images selected from the partipating Fenway Artists: Ernest Andrades, Robert Baart, Perry Barton, Laura Clark, Amy Chuckrow, Laura Clark, Loretta Cuda, Nan Hass Feldman, Sid Hurwitz, Constance Jacobson, Ken Kelleher, Deborah Kravitz, Teri Malo, Anne McGhee, and Paul T. Nagano. Friends of Fenway Studios
By BIG RED Saturday, November 17th, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at The List Visual Art Center to hear Bill Arning talk about “Sounding the Subject: Selections from the Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection and the New Art Trust” MIT List Visual Arts Center