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By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Liz Nofziger is an artist with bright orange-red highlights in her hair and robustly rimmed glasses that remind me of the pair an old carpenter might wear in his (or her) woodshop. Her glasses may be just as appropriate to her vocation as they are to a carpenter’s as her rather cavernous studio was filled with two-by-fours and various equipment for the manipulation of building materials. I had followed my way along the sketchy map she drew, in the same fashion she uses to map out and design her…
By SHA LAR Print this article Baudrillard is not dead. To die, one must first have lived. Become – at last in this end that is also a beginning – a simulacrum of himself, Baudrillard remains always already dead – and indestructible. It’s after the end of the world – don’t you know that yet? Infected with Baudrillard’s virulent strain of futuristic flu, such illogic comes naturally to us. When everything is science fiction, everything sf, then sf spins on itself and disappears. Sf fx – and not reality fx – are…
By BIG RED Print this article Friday, March 2nd, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Gallery Kayafas for the opening of Harry Roseman: Cover Up and Matthew Gamber: This Is (still) The Golden Age. Video from this opening, by Steve Aishman, can be found at his blog. Gallery Kayafas
By BIG RED Print this article Thursday, March 8th, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Jack Leigh Gallery in Savannah, GA for the opening of Pete Chirstman: Modern Pictorialism. Jack Leigh Gallery
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Print this article This past autumn, Art Interactive hosted the exhibition and game show “Art Show Down,” produced by Jeff Warmouth and Roland Smart. This television game show was shot in front of a live audience, producing seven episodes that aired on CCTV. It included a broad cross-section of artists that created the project, and many more artists, curators and fans who participated as contestants, guests, audience members and much more. This week, the producers of “Art Show Down” announced the release of a DVD compilation of…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Print this article This in from Dan Hunter, Executive Director, Massachusetts Advocates for the Arts, Sciences, & Humanities: Governor Proposes a Budget Cut for the MCC Facing a predicted $1.3 billion budget deficit, Governor Deval Patrick’s proposed budget, known as House 1, will effectively cut the Massachusetts Cultural Council appropriation by $700,000. Technically, his budget proposes level funding for the official MCC line items. However, last year’s budget included a last-minute increase of $700,000 intended for the MCC budget but inserted into the Massachusetts Office of Travel…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article “For at least six months in the 1940s Hyman Bloom was the most important artist in the world,” Katherine French, the director of the Danforth Museum of Art, in Framingham, Mass., a suburb of Boston, and curator of “Hyman Bloom A Spiritual Embrace” which is on view through March 11, was discussing the rarely exhibited work of the reclusive, visionary/expressionist artist (born in Latvia in 1913) who lives in Nashua, New Hampshire. “And for two years after that he was the most important painter in America.”…
By THOMAS MARQUET Print this article #14: 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. More of The White Cube can be found here.