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By BIG RED EDITORS With the launch of Geoff Edgers new blog “The Exhibitionist” via The Boston Globe, we at Big RED thought it would be a good time to look at some of our favorite art blogs from around the blogosphere. There are many great minds out there, sharing their thoughts on art, culture, and much more. • We Make Money Not Art Their website sums up their range of topics: “’90s . activism . advertising . architecture . ars electronica . art . art from china . art from japan…
By BIG RED April 28th 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Studio Soto for the opening of: Dibujo Venezuela – Drawing USA Studio Soto
By MATTHEW NASH Lounging in the cozy chairs of Emack & Bolio’s, Ravi Jain and I recently took time out to sip tea and discuss his life online. The 35-year-old MassArt grad has been making a lot of friends with his vlog “DriveTime”, which he produces with his wife Sonia, and we talked at length about the immediacy of the web, traditional versus new media, robots, Sweden, and how to turn one’s life into a sitcom. Ravi’s first show, “Three Abreast”, went online in 2002. Produced while he was at MassArt, this…
By BIG RED April 21 & April 28, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the opening reception for graduating students at AIB. The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University
By BIG RED April 26th 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at The Rose Art Museum for the opening of two Exhibitions,Erwin Wurm: I Love My Time, I Don’t Like My Time and Sarah Walker: Paintings. Erwin Wurm: I Love My Time, I Don’t Like My Time & Sarah Walker: Paintings will be on view untill July 30th 2006 Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University
By BIG RED NEW EDITOR Pointing out that Boston is a college town is like saying the Pope is Catholic: so redundant as to not be worth the effort. As college towns, Boston & Cambridge are prone to a peculiar type of transient culture, as faculty and students come and go every year. For us at Big RED & Shiny, this has meant a dramatic change in the interests of our audience, and our contributors, over the past few years as many have left New England for other regions yet wish to…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR A follow up on a news item from last Issue 41: This past April 10th, the House Ways and Means Committee proposed a budget that would include a 6% funding increase for the Massachusetts Cultural Council. This proposal overall is $3 million more than Governor Mitt Romney’s proposed ’07 budget. Last week at the eleventh hour, the house voted increase the MCC funding along with alotting for a minimum amount for improving cultural facilities (like school buildings thoughout the state). From Dan Hunter, Executive Director for MAASH:…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Google’s occasional sprucing of their site did not liven up everyone’s internet searching experience. The most recent logo change, which the search giant goliath occasionally alters graphically to pay tribute to a significant cultural event or person, featured the a revamping in the style of twentieth century Spanish painter, Joan Miro, commemorating his birth. The Artists Rights Society, which represents a number of artists’ families and their related estates, asked Google to remove their tribute logo. The grounds: the graphic scripting of the logo was seen as…