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By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Deval Patrick and Tim Murray will have had nine weeks between Election Day and inauguration to prepare a new administration for their next four years in office. Nine weeks, when considering the length of the administration and 16 years of a different political party running Massachusetts, may seem like a dauntingly short amount of time to appoint a new cabinet and set a four year agenda for the state. To help with the monumental task of transitioning between two administrations, a Transition Committee was formed to make the shift…
By BIG RED November 1-5 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED weekJ on-the-town at The Mobius International Festival of Performance Art. Mobius
By BIG RED Friday, November 3, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the reception for Art Cake: The Delicious Transient New Medium at Axiom. Artists included: Rob Coshow, Catherine Dechico and Emily Su, Heloisa Escudero, George Fifield, Mary Greenfield, Brian and Rebecca Higgins, Ravi Jain, Georgina Lewis and Jim Manning.
By BIG RED Thursday, November 2, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at The Judi Rotenberg Gallery for the opening of Donna Rosenthal and LaVaughan Jenkins: Undressed. Judi Rotenberg Gallery
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Let’s begin our report of the final episode of the Art Show Down with a letter from painter Rick Berry: Dear BR&S After having read Heidi Marston’s column on the “Art Showdown” I somehow trucked my end-of-day zombie self out to the final episode. Driving, parking, orienteering in an utterly automaton fashion I could hear a little voice in my head query, “how good an article can that have been? What am I doing here?” I’m just so glad I did. Completely incapable of finding anything amusing…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Recently annouced, effective February 5th of next year, Harvard University Art Museum’s first full curator for contemporary art, a position in the once vacant department of contemporary and modern art, created in 1997. Helen Molesworth, transplanting herslf to New England from Columbus, OH where she was serving as chief curator for the Wexner Center for the Arts. Molesworth brings a backlog of experience as an author, a distinguished scholar, also serving as curator of contemporary art at the Baltimore Museum of Art from 1999 to 2003, where…
By BIG RED EDITORS Here at Big RED & Shiny, we are always looking for new ways to promote artists and discussions about art. Some work, others don’t. Our Forum has gone through many stages, but rarely has it been a home to the kind of discussions we had hoped it would entertain. For this reason, we have removed the Forum from the site. We hope that the few users of our Forum can find a new place to discuss their interests, or that they are inspired to start their own. We…
By #6: 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.