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By BIG RED Friday, August 4, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED evening on the town at Jeremy Chu’s apartment in Boston’s South End for his performance, THE RENAISSANCE WINDOW PROJECT: A PARALLAX VIEW
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Locally residing writer, Patricia Cornwell, author of Portrait of a Killer, a novel about sleuthing the identity of Jack the Ripper, the London East End killer, has promised a gift of over 80 works by 19th century artist Walter Sickert to the Fogg Museum of Harvard University. Based on real life historical research involving analysis through conservation investigation. Sickert is concluded to be “The Ripper” in the story of Portrait. The promised gift is a result of the relationship developed between Cornwell and the museum, after collaborating…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR This upcoming 2006 season, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum of Art will be offering podcasts of their ongoing Tapestry Room concert series, which features young performers and contemporary composers. The podcasts are a part of the museum’s new techology initiative to broaden the scope of the museum’s outreach. Musical director Scott Nickerenz comments, “Instead of sitting on a shelf, this music will reach people around the world. Most importantly, though, the fact that it’s free means anyone can participate. It’s an extraordinary opportunity to expnad the reach…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR While it has been unofficial knowledge for a while now, George Fifield has officially confirmed his departure from the DeCordova Museum. Fifield told Big RED & Shiny that the museum has closed the curator of new media position, effectively laying him off. The departure, though, is amicable, and he has not ruled out working with the DeCordova in the future. Cory Cronin, The DeCordova’s Director of Marketing and Public Relations, told Big RED: The Museum has a long standing commitment to new media art, including an extensive…
By KATHLEEN BITETTI Jason Schupbach is the director of ArtistLink which is currently housed at the Massachusetts Cultural Council. He has been attending meetings for artist housing and artist work space development all over Massachusetts for the past year and a half. In collaboration with the Artists Foundation they have just launched artspacefinder.com, a great new tool to help artists “Find space to Create.” I was able to catch up with him and interview him to better let the artists of Massachusetts know what about this new website and what Jason he…
By JASON DEAN At art school in NY city, I learned an important lesson that no ridiculous amount of tuition could have taught me: no one is about to hold your hand in any way and the real world should start now. This is the big city, there are no dorm rooms or cafeterias or campus transportation. Go figure it out for yourself. Not surprisingly, SVA itself operated very similarly. Are you a photo student? … No? … Then go back to the sculpture building, you can’t use the darkroom. It became…
By JENNIFER MCMACKON I’m in the studio of Toronto artist Andrew Reyes. With upcoming solo exhibitions both here at Diaz Contemporary and stateside at Buffalo’s Hallwalls, he’s an artist to watch. I’m looking for evidence of sculpture. I’d especially love to see Adults, the piece that he showed as part of a group exhibition called The News From Nowhere at Susan Hobbs Gallery last summer. But neither it, nor anything else particularly three dimensional, is apparent. Reyes studio does contain a remarkable cache of inkjet papers and inks forming beautifully packaged rows…
By JON PETRO I went to see Katz. Honestly, I really did. The single, self-serving reason I drove to the Peabody Essex Museum, in Salem, MA, was to see a panoramic painting by the artist Alex Katz. I don’t know what else to say, I just really dig this guy’s paintings. As for the importance of Katz as an artist today, I have one word to define it: consistency. Alex Katz has managed to sustain a 51 year career in an industry that suffers from a textbook case of ADHD. Without Katz’s…