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By SCOTT ALBERG Almost every American remembers learning about the Pilgrims, Squanto, and the first Thanksgiving in elementary school. We learned about the treacherous sail of the Mayflower, the writing of the Mayflower Compact, and the historic landing at Plymouth Rock. This story is etched into the psyche of almost every American child, and it is this myth’s privileged place in the collective unconscious of this country that Sam Durant addresses with his Scenes from the Pilgrim Story: Myths, Massacres, and Monuments at MassArt. The exhibit retells the origin myth of the…
By DAWOUD BEY I had the wonderful opportunity this past weekend to see an excellent exhibition in Boston that demonstrates, in the best way, how a set of ideas can be given interesting and engaging form. Correspondence, an installation by the Waltham/Andover based artist Ceci Mendez uses a most minimal set of means to create a most engaging set of objects. Taken at face value, the idea is simple enough: to use recycled business envelopes, and to then cut and collage them individually and present them as a group in a room…
By BIG RED Friday, December 15, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the opening of ‘Empires Fall’ Photography from Egypt and Rome by Denise Bosco and Don Eyles. Fort Point Arts Community Gallery
By 18 December 8, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Art Interactive for the opening of Turbulence.org’s New England Initiative II. Art Interactive
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR On Saturday, December 16, 2006, the Green Street Gallery held its final annual 150×150 show and Mad Dash. James Hull, who’s run the Green Street Gallery since 1998, and his wife, Donna Veverka, are going to Italy for 5 1/2 months. He’s leaving behind the much hallowed space for Heidi Kaiser and Phaedra Shanbaum’s Axiom Gallery, which will reopen with iArt: A selection of new works created for pdas on January 12, 2007. Turnout for this year’s Mad Dash was significantly lower this year than in previous…
By CHARLES GIULIANO The body work, video installations of Denise Marika have been regularly exhibited at the Howard Yezerski Gallery, and in site specific installations at the Isabella Gardner Museum, the Worcester Art Museum, the Rose Art Museum, the DeCordova Museum and the Museum of Modern Art. But in the past year the artist has been working in the theatre. In 2006, she collaborated with Robert Woodruff and Rinde Eckert to make a music-theatre piece “Orpheus X” for American Repertory Theatre where she co designed the set with David Zinn. Currently she…
By THOMAS MARQUET #9: 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.
By ANONYMOUS ART DEALER Q: My painting style has recently changed and I have grown tremendously as an artist. My paintings used to be smaller plein-air landscapes. I have taken what I’ve learned and applied that to creating larger and more expressive semi-abstract landscapes. I have sold, shown and received awards for my plein-air work but consider that phase of my painting experience over. Do I now need to start over as an artist in promoting my new and more mature work? Do my past sales and shows count for anything? How…