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By BIG RED The Big RED Anti-telethon is underway, and now is your chance to support our little pink website. It doesn’t take much, just a few dollars from you, for us to continue bringing coverage of the arts in New England. But please, don’t call us, because there are no operators standing by. PayPal is an amazing invention, allowing you to donate to our cause with a few clicks. It is safe and easy, and you can donate with the confidence that your information is secure. Besides, while the idea of…
By LUANNE STOVALL Editor’s note: This piece is the first in a series of articles concerned with a new model for art education. In response to the questions submitted to Big RED writers concerning the role of art in academia, Ms. Stovall was particularly interested in considering “ . . . the consequences of outmoded structures [and] hidden agendas for teaching art in this country.” The hierarchies inherited from yesteryear hardly seem applicable anymore, yet artist and art educators alike are hanging onto conveniently invented, arbitrary designations that hardly seem to accommodate…
By KATHLEEN BITETTI An interview with a true Citizen Artist Sand T is an artist, activist, and founder of artSPACE@16. She has been doing some amazing community building for artists and the arts in Malden, MA. She has founded a key alternative space in Malden and has also helped to galvanize the City of Malden to become more supportive of working artists. Her story is inspirational to say the least. The moral of her story is why wait for some to create opportunities for artists. Artists can be pro-active in helping to…
By MICAH J. MALONE Take a stroll through our new issue and you will be impressed with some new updates. For one, take a quick look through our LINKS section, which our publisher has updated and formatted quite impressively. Here you will find some great links to not only other Boston organizations but some excellent sites around the country we support (by good will that is). Speaking of support… don’t hesitate to click on that PayPal button to give to our anti-telethon. While I understand reluctance in using this online service or…
By CHARLES GIULIANO There was a circus like ambiance last Sunday when I attended a spate of openings in a cluster of galleries at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut. I downloaded directions from Mapquest as it had been a number of years since last visiting the suburban museum to interview its founder, Larry Aldrich, in a profile for Art News. My intention was to support the artist, Damian Loeb, who was a part of three separate shows billed as “Homecoming” acknowledging three artists- Loeb, Sarah Bostwick and Doug Wada-…
By MICAH J. MALONE March 8th marked the last day the MFA screened the fabulous documentary Zizek!. With an addictive speech pattern where the Slovenian thinker seems to literally breathe Lacan and Marx, Slavoj Zizek has acquired a major following in the academic and intellectual lecture circuits, making him an “academic rock star” as the trailer indicates. The film follows Zizek around as he shops for films, to his home in Ljublijana where we meet his child, to New York, Boston, and Buenos Aires for various lectures. With the documentary Derrida produced…
By STEVE AISHMAN “I found the Palace of Green Porcelin, when we approached it about noon, deserted and falling into ruin. Only ragged vestiages of glass remained in its windows, and great sheets of the green facing had fallen away from the corroded metallic framework… The tiled floor was thick with dust, and a remarkable array of miscellaneous objects was shrouded in dust….further in the gallery was the huge skeleton barrel of a Brontosaurus. My museum hypothesis was confirmed.” The Time Machine, H. G. Wells (1895) It makes perfect sense that in…
By JAMES MANNING I am a member of the Institute for Infinitely Small Things. Anyone can join. There is no secret handshake, no magic decoder rings, and no membership dues. Many different people have been involved at one point or another, people from all walks of life: artists, non-artists, students, architects, critics and just random people we have met on the street. Others participate online via the website. For several years, I have followed the adventures of iKatun at various exhibits, including the notable exhibit info@blah: overload and organization at The Boston…