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By JAMES MANNING On Thursday April 27th 2006, after more than five years in the works, A Chinatown Banquet, a key component of The Chinatown Heritage Project was unveiled. The Chinatown Heritage Project is an ongoing effort to capture and preserve the unique history of Boston’s Chinatown community. Through this unique project that combines community activism, civic engagement, public art and education, a deeper awareness and understanding of the contributions of Asian Americans to the culture of Boston is gained. The Chinatown Banquet is a video with more than 3 hours of…
By BIG RED April 7, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Tufts University, for the opening of a Museum School graduate thesis exhibition. The artists included were Stefanie Bruser-Smith, Brian Gershey, Nan C. Hockenbury, Thomas Marquet, Julie Miller, Christopher Sanderson, Liz Shepherd, and Shelley Zatsky. Links: Tufts University Gallery The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
By BIG RED April 4th 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the Rhys Gallery for the opening of Synergetic, featuring the work of Lana Z. Caplan, Harvey Loves Harvey and Reese Inman Photos by James Manning. Rhys Gallery Reese Inman Lana Z. Caplan Harvey Loves Harvey
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR This 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. This new budget provides the MCC with a $600,000 increase over this past year’s budget, providing a total 32% increase since 2002, when the budget was cut by over 60%. Dan Hunter, Executive Director of MAASH, noted in his email announcement that, ” . . . MAASH welcomes this…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR The Institute of Contemporary Art has announced the finalists for the 2006 ICA Artist Prize Honoring Outstanding Boston Artist. This year’s finalists are Sheila Gallagher, Jane D. Marsching, Kelly Sherman, and Rachel Perry Welty. The ICA Prize, established in 1999, focuses on artists from the Boston area. The finalists will be show in the new Diller Scofidio + Renfro designed building this upcoming September. Also, in anticipation for expanded space that the new Fan Pier venue offers, ICA has been collecting artwork for their permanent collection. A…
By BIG RED Do you remember when PBS would interrupt your favorite shows to ask for money? Or when Jerry Lewis and his friends asked for your support? Every telethon appealed to the better angels of our nature, with banks of volunteers answering phones and taking down information while a host talked about the importance of giving money to support the organizations and ideas that we think are important. At Big RED & Shiny, we don’t do telethons. Our anti-telethon is currently underway, and we are asking for your money. It doesn’t…
By CHARLES GIULIANO The work of the Spanish master, Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828), is so richly diverse and complex, that depending upon what is sampled, it is possible to present him as the progenitor of just about any modernist argument. Is he rooted in the Romantic Rebellion of the late 18th and early 19th century? A Humanist of the Enlightenment that evolved from the Age of Reason and the Age of Revolution? Is he a satirist and social commentator in the tradition of such authors as Voltaire and Swift? Perhaps…
By MATTHEW GAMBER Today was Sunday; this is 41, our next offering. I have liked them both, simultaneously. Some of you, no doubt, will be reading this issue asynchronously with how we have experienced it: on the brink of having your tax returns postmarked. For current New Englanders, you may be reading this on Tuesday as Monday is Patriot(‘)s Day. Therefore, the IRS has granted (on top of an extention already made because of the weekend) an extra day, because the filing hub for the area is in Andover. So, if you…