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By BIG RED Thursday November 9th 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the opening reception for Rick Harlow ‘Paintings’ and Barry Goldstein ‘Veterans’ at The New England School of Art and Design at Suffok University. — New England School of Art and Design at Suffok University
By BIG RED November 11th, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at GREEN STREET GALLERY for the opening of Deb Todd Wheeler: Live Experiments in Human Energy Exchange – Photographs by Jeremias Paul. Green Street Gallery
By BIG RED Friday November 17th 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at opening of Studios @ 35: Artists at the Boston Center for the Arts. Curated by James Manning. Artists: Martha Jane Bradford, James Cambronne, Sue Collier, Michael David, Mary Derr, Aileen O. Erickson, Ruth Ginsberg-Place, Marsha Goldberg, Meryl Hamilton, Ralph Hamilton, Jared Katsiane, Alexander Korman, Douglas Kornfeld, Kathleen Kneeland, Marilyn Mase, Lazaro Montano, TJ Norris, David Reichert and Matt Aaron Templeton. Mills Gallery
By BIG RED November 4th, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Saltworks Gallery in Atlanta GA for the opening of Michael Scoggins, The Patiot Letters and the Avantika Bawa curation, SISYPHEAN DESIRES, SYSTEMS AND DEVICES, as part of the launch for DRAIN magazine. Photography by Steve Aishman. Saltworks Gallery DRAIN
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Auction prices for both modern and post-war work is hitting all time highs once again. In what feels like a weekly trend, the single night art auction record of $491 million was established at Christies. Record prices were set for Klimt, who had four canvases that traded hands during the evening, with “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II” selling for $87.9 million to a private collector. Also of note was Paul Gauguin’s “Man with an Ax”, a richly colored painting from his Tahitian period, which sold for $40.3…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR From November 12-15, 2006, Boston was home to the annual Grantmakers In The Arts conference, this year called the ‘Beantown Remix’. Held at the Omni Parker House, hundreds of representatives from nearly every major arts funding organization in the country converged on the city to discuss the future of arts funding, and to share ideas for improvement, advancement and implementation. Big RED publisher Matthew Nash spent a day at the conference as a guest of the LEF Foundation, among a group of young artists representing Boston and…
By ANONYMOUS ART DEALER Q: How do you find artists? Do you ever have relationships with artists that send you portfolios in the mail? A: I usually find artists from word of mouth. I would have an artist friend that knows another artist friend whose work would fit well with the gallery. Or, when I travel to other cities, I visit galleries to see if I like any work there. Then, I might work out a show with the gallery. Networking is the most valuable skill in any business, and as a…
By JAIMES MAYHEW On Sunday, October 1st, the Institute for Infinitely Small Things traveled down to Providence to observe the Disaster Drill that was being staged in Kennedy Plaza. This was just one of many Disaster Drills that have been staged throughout the United States, Canada and the U.K.. The Disasters are produced to test the timed response and communications between different federal and state agencies in a variety of scenarios that include bird flu epidemics, disease vaccinations, bombings, and attacks on energy supplies, among other things. This scenario was a suicide…