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By MATTHEW NASH Thomas Edison’s landmark 1903 film “The Great Train Robbery” ends with a famous shot of a bandit firing his gun at the camera. Wikipedia notes that “(a)udiences at the time, for whom moving pictures were still very new and unfathomable, would usually scream in fear, then laugh in relief.” There was once a wonder about moving images, and a fascination created by the artificial re-creation of life through the flickering projections of light on a screen, or of static images viewed through the spinning slits of an kinetoscope, or…
By HEATHER LOGUE “Autonomous projects dealing with the tension between dominant and alternative (image) cultures in totalitarian regimes”. Quite a mouthful and quite an accomplishment for the Mills Gallery’s guest-curator Femke Lutgerink, who has managed to unite six international (and distinctively diverse) artists with the same hope of introducing viewers to a world where perhaps due to culturally-based stereotypes or media projections, they’ve never bothered to enter. But it is essential that the viewer throws himself at this opportunity without abandon, and essential that he sees at least one piece of art…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND History will be interpreted differently by different individuals and communities. It goes without saying. In fact, “History” is an interpretation, an interpretation of the past. MassMoca’s show, “Ahistoric Occasion: Artists Making History,” brings together a group of artists who each examine the past and ways to depict it. The interpretive aspect of History is no more foregrounded in any of the works in the show than Greta Pratt’s portraits of members ofThe Association of Lincoln Presenters show individual interpretations of Abraham Lincoln by enthusiasts of the 16th president. Not…
By BRS STAFF CHRISTIAN HOLLAND by MICAH J. MALONE MATTHEW GAMBER by CHRISTIAN HOLLAND MATTHEW NASH by MATTHEW GAMBER MICAH J. MALONE by MATTHEW NASH A project like Big RED & Shiny is not built overnight, and it does not come from a single vision. Since 2004, we have had the opportunity of working with a great group of writers who are excited to share their thoughts on the state of the arts in New England (and beyond!). Behind the scenes are a four dedicated artists who work to make this…
On Friday, April 12th, The Berwick Research Institute hosted a dinner at the studio of artist Jill Slosburg-Ackerman in Somerville. The purpose of the dinner was to discuss the state of public art in Boston, and the conversation was led by Meg Rotzel and Susan Sakash, co-directors of the Berwick’s Public Art Incubator Program. Present for the conversation were Matthew Hincman, Nova Benway, Hannah Burr, Sarah King McKeon, Lauren Johnston, Ellen Driscoll, Laurel Demarco, Marissa Molinaro, and myself. The conversation was very lively all evening long, driven by ever-changing courses of food,…
By BIG RED Friday, April 6th, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Axiom for the opening of “Selected Works From Aspect Magazine” featuring Jim Campbell, Tony Cokes, Jill Magid and Christopher Miner. Axiom, Inc ASPECT: The Chronicle Of New Media
By BIG RED Friday, Aprl 6th, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at NESAD for the opening of a student show. New England School of Art and Design at Suffok University
By BIG RED Thursday, March 29th, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at The PRC for the opening of “Picture Show”, featuring work by Steve Hollinger, Olivia Robinson, Erica von Schilgen, Deb Todd Wheeler, and a work by Hans Spinnerman of Le Musee Patamecanique. Photographic Resource Center Images by Matthew Nash and Jeremias Paul. More images by Jeremias can be found here.