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By MATTHEW NASH On the corner of Westland and Mass. Ave, across from the Christian Science Church, Andi Sutton stands on a milk crate in front of a small crowd. She is describing her project, “Crosspollination,” and its relationship to race, class and the #1 bus route. Sutton is the first of two presenters on this Saturday, as part of the Platform2 series of art and social engagement events that occur regularly in Boston. Platform2 is comprised of Kanarinka and Pirun from iKatun, Jane D. Marsching and Sutton – and presenters have…
By HEIDI MARSTON AISHMAN —- Rhys Gallery “Amir H. Fallah and Evelyn Rydz” is on view September 06 – October 05, 2007 at The Rhys Gallery. Heidi Marston Aishman is an artist, curator and regular contributor to Big RED & Shiny.
It was confirmed this morning that Esther Anderson, longtime supporter of the arts in Boston, died this past week. She was 92. In a message sent yesterday, Dean Deborah Dluhy of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts summarized Anderson’s many contributions: Many in the SMFA community would consider Esther our most ardent and dedicated alumna and advocate. And over the years her passion for the School, its students, faculty and staff, never diminished. She attended the SMFA in her 40s, studied primarily printmaking, graduated in 1964 and kept her ties…
By BIG RED Friday September 7th 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at First Friday openings in SOWA and the Big Red & Shiny book release party at Axiom. Photos by James Manning. Video by Heidi Marston Aishman. —- Eva Navarro at MPG Gallery Prelude at the Julie Chae Gallery modern urban-expressionism at Gallery XIV Robin Dash: Don’t Climb the Pyramids and Rachell Sumpter: New Work at Allston Skirt Gallery Jo Sandman Heat/Light & Light Memory at Gallery Kayafas ‘Hi Ho Silver!’ The Kingston Gallery’s 25th Anniversary Members’…
By BIG RED Friday September 7th 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the First Friday openings on Newbury Street and SOWA. Paul Beliveau ‘Les Humanities’ at Arden Gallery From Minimal to Bling: Contemporary Studio Jewelry at the Society of Arts & Crafts Terry Albright’Out of my Gourds’ and Julia Shepley ‘Fluid States’ at the Boston Sculptors Gallery”Live:Work” at Laconia Gallery Amir H. Fallah + Evelyn Rydz at the Rhys Gallery Jennifer Riley ‘Do You Remember…?’ at O’H+T Gallery
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND In the past couple weeks we’ve been buckling down for the new school year: putting the final touches on our lesson plans, picking up our tweed blazers from the cleaners, or, in my case, actually going back to school (You’ll never guess what for!), so we’re a little slimmer than you might be used to, but just so you know it’s not because we’ve been fasting. We’re not strict observers of Ramadan and we haven’t been practicing for Yom Kippur. (We also don’t characteristically make fun of religions, as…
By STEVE AISHMAN Editor’s Note: This installment of Steve Aishman’s “Report From The Phantom Zone” may have been written in collaboration with his wife and long-time Big RED contributor, Heidi Marston Aishman. “It’s amazing how much you can get done when you don’t care who gets the credit.” — Richard Hettrick What does it mean to collaborate in the art world today? When does it matter who did what? At what point is the gallery part of the collaboration by hanging the work in their space? Is Big RED a collaborator by…
By THOMAS MARQUET #22: Danny is called on the carpet to explain why a bad review is a good review. “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.Get The White Cube every day at Tom’s blog.