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By JON PETRO When I read a press release that includes words such as; “experiment,” “fusion,” and “collaboration” it’s hard for me to envision installation art without any new age rhetoric creeping into the back of my head. Maybe it’s just that I have such a long history with two-dimensional works that I can’t get my mind around any other genre. It’s a difficult task to read works of art in our current times, let alone works that attempt to break out of every known boundary, which is what you have happening…
By BIG RED Print this article February 7th, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town in the Hammond Art Gallery at Fitchberg State College from the opening of Community Through Cameras: Argentina and Ghana.
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Print this article Michael Bakwin, a former inn keeper in Stockbridge, Mass and now a resident of Suffolk, VA will have a few priceless paintings returned to him after their theft from his home nearly thrity years ago. Among the seven paintings originally stolen, a Cezanne still life titled “Pitcher and Fruits” was among the most valuable and was later sold at auction for close to $30 million. In a long and bizarre story, the original thief, thought to be a Mr. David Colvin, stole the works…
By MICAH J. MALONE Print this article It is fair time again. On the heels of The Armory show, Scope New York and a host of others, the art world is fully entrenched in the workings of commerce. I hear rumblings and musings of the same kind every round: “$25 million is the new million!!” Or, “Lets bring a few pieces to Scope and see what happens.” Another friend complained, “I just got a New York gallery but he’s only shown me in Miami!” Like it or not, the fair is the…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article In the best of all possible worlds, perhaps in the not distant future, Raymond Liddell will purchase a house in Tuscany where he hopes to reread all of the Greek and Roman classics, in the original. And to wander through ancient ruins with Pausanias’s 2nd century A.D. “Description of Greece” in hand while romancing the stones. Between now and then, however, there is a lot on his plate including teaching the classics and art history at Emerson College and the Art Institute of Boston as well…
By KATHLEEN BITETTI Print this article “An informed populace makes wise decisions” — President Thomas Jefferson You may have now heard about the Massachusetts Health Care Reform Law and its individual mandate requiring that all Massachusetts residents over 18 must have health insurance by July 1, 2007 (One key thing to keep in mind is that embedded in the law is that the deadline for obtaining health insurance is in actuality December 31st, 2007). The AF has been monitoring and working on the implementation of the Massachusetts Health Care Reform Law and…
By THOMAS MARQUET Print this article #13: 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.
By JAMES HULL Print this article The project space in Rome for Benedetto Pietromarchi’s exhibition was a medium sized warehouse, rising two stories. The exhibition space was divided by a pair of transparent screens on casters upon which four photographs were mounted. Behind these half walls were the two larger works: a video projection of an underwater scene and a nearly life-sized figurative clay sculpture. Benedetto Pietromarchi has worked in a range of scales and media in his effort to connect our psyche to a site or structure. Pietromarchi has written about…