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By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Last week the Artadia Boston 2007 first round awards jury convened to review more than 670 applications. The rigorous selection process included Pieranna Cavalchini, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Mark Masuoka Director and Curator at the Bemis Center for the Arts in Omaha, Nebraska, and Anne Pasternak, Artistic Director of Creative Time in New York. The fifteen Boston 2007 Artadia Awards finalists are: S.A. Bachman of THINK AGAIN, Hannah Barrett, Gerry Bergstein, David Binder, Denise Marika, Jane Marsching, Helen Mirra, The National…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Mass MoCA has announced that Denise Markonish will be the new curator, replacing Nato Thompson who left for New York’s Creative Time. Markonish most recently came from New Haven’s Artspace, coming off one of her best projects, “Territories”, which will travel to the Galerie fur Landschaftskunst in Hamburg, Germany this spring. Markonish has many ties to Boston. She organized “Time Share” and “Body Double”, a couple of the first shows at Art Interactive and was also the curator at the Fuller Museum in Brockton. Markonish was a…
By CHARLES GIULIANO With its summer season in suspense because of deadlocked negotiations with the artist Christoph Buchel in a dispute over expenses and details for an installation in the largest space of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, its director, Joe Thompson, recently announced considerable progress toward reaching a target of raising $37 million involving several agendas intended to provide long term stability for the sprawling, 13 acre, North Adams based, contemporary art facility. As a young institution, it opened to the public in 1999, with great scale and ambitious, avant-garde…
By THOMAS MARQUET #17: Thomas Marquet’s comic strip about life in a gallery. “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.
By MATTHEW GAMBER Who is behind the masthead of Big RED and Shiny? Just who is the conduit of its content? Have you ever wanted to know what our philosophy is? Who are we, really, in the anonymity of the web? Recently we realized that we didn’t know much about each other either, except maybe what our iChat avatar represents. For this issue, we decided to ask one another questions to find out what makes the other person tick. We have a large article introducing the main staff at Big RED to…
By CHRIS ‘ZEKE’ HAND The Darling Foundry aka Quartier Ephemere exemplifies just about everything that is both great about the Montreal art world, and (unfortunately) everything that is absolutely horrible about the Montreal art world. Initially founded in 1993, Quartier Ephemere took over the Darling Foundry in 2002 as an exhibition space. In 2006 they expanded, and incorporated studio space. There is a restaurant attached and while it isn’t exactly in the heart of Old Montreal, it is close enough to Old Montreal that if you’re a tourist it isn’t gonna knock…
By JASON DEAN What I knew of The Books from their 3 previous albums was that they were fellow documenters, appreciators of the sample, the sound collage, the tapes from answering machines at the salvation army. I later found out Nick Zammuto came into music through the visual arts and started out making sound sculptures, and bought his first DAT recorder to document them. The other member of The Books, Paul de Jong, has been playing classical cello from the age of five and (among other things) was commissioned by the Dutch…
By MATTHEW NASH Currently on view at the Portland Museum of Art is the 2007 Biennial, a juried exhibition that fills the entire ground floor of the Museum, and spreads out onto the lawn and onto the eaves. Featuring 61 artists and 98 works, there is something for everyone, and both a depth and richness of experience that tie the whole group together. Rarely can one find a theme within group shows this large and varied, but amazingly this show feels quite unified and consistent. What ties most of the work together…