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By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Last issue, we published a piece about a sculpture installed by Matthew Hincman near Jamaica Pond. We reported that his piece had been removed by the city, but that the city was also working to re-install the piece. On June 27th, Matthew Hincman sent an email stating that his piece had been re-installed, as was ready to be experienced. It is along the walking path beside the Jamaica Pond, and will remain there until the fall. You can read the full story here. All images are courtesy…
By BIG RED You may have noticed, on your way past our welcome page that things look a little different. Sure, we still tell you that we’re big, red & shiny. And there is still a picture. But something is new… One of the new features of Big RED & Shiny allows you to add an image to our front page. Simply click the ‘show off your artwork’ link and add an image. Each day, our editors will choose a new picture to show on the front page! Use this feature to…
By KATHLEEN BITETTI What to do on your summer vacation- Creative Alliance reading/web list I have been making a list of great books and websites for artists and supporters of artists to read this summer (for the record I also read light magazines besides this type of heavy reading) Here is my very short list: Books: Stewards of the Sacred, edited by Lawrence E. Sullivan & Alison Edwards (AF advisory board member!) is a best seller and is published by the American Association of Museums. Basically there is no international policy that…
By CHARLES GIULIANO The sprawling complex of galleries, a cluster of connected industrial buildings of the former Sprague Electric Company in North Adams, Mass. may be described as the visual equivalent of a three ring circus. Currently, the largest space of Mass MoCA contains a vintage, ersatz amusement park by Carsten Holler, which is actually not that amusing. A second grouping of galleries comprises a one person show of the Chinese born and Paris based artist, Huang Yong Ping. It happens to be one of the most staggering and insightful exhibitions of…
By BAD AT SPORTS Tillmans confronts and confounds us with a seemingly endless stream of images, in what undoubtedly must be looked upon as a kind of mediated “stream” of consciousness. A whole life of culled and collected imagery, cloaked in beauty and a narcissistic hipster cool. When confronted with over three hundred photographs it is hard to know where to start. How do we pull the show apart and allow it to reveal itself? Do we start examining what the images could mean or do we blow off isolating individual moments…
By BIG RED June 15th, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town from Boston Young Contemporaries at 808 Gallery, Boston University. 808 Gallery, Boston University Snaps by Ben Sloat & James Manning.
By BIG RED June 9th 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Art Interactive for the opening reception of the exhibit Urban Networks. Art Interactive Images by James Manning.
By BIG RED June 16th, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the Rhys Gallery for the opening of Under the Fort. Rhys Gallery Snaps by High Ninja Aishman.