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By BIG RED March 16th, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the grand opening of Space 186. The new joint gallery space between Axiom and Zeitgiest. The first exhibit is “A Means of Illumination” by Allison Leigh Holt will be on view untill April 5th Axiom, Inc Zeitgeist Gallery
By BIG RED March 18th, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Studio Soto for the video screening “One Night Stand”. Studio Soto
By BIG RED March 11th. 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED afternoon on-the-town at the Artist Foundation Gallery in South Boston for the opening of three solo exhibits : Hiroko Kikuchi “Skinshipu”, Charlie Collidge’s “The Office” and Liz Nofziger’s “Yield” Artists Foundation
By BIG RED March 10th, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the opening of SNAP! CLICK! BANG! at the Rhys Gallery. The exhibit of 4 photographers Alison Lessmann, Jesse Burke, Alicia Colen and Kevin Kennedy, guest curated by Jeffery Hammel will be on view untill April 8th. Rhys Gallery
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR As if gum-chewing 12-year-olds weren’t doing enough damage to art, the Milwaukee Art Museum saw several pieces damaged during an event called ‘Martinifest’. The event, sponsored by Clear Channel, offered guests unlimited martinis for their $30 admission fee. The resulting drunkenness caused party-goers to go wild. The Milwaukee Sentinal Journal reports: “It was crazy,” said attendee Kathleen Christians, 39. “People were shoving people over. People were getting sick, screaming, shouting, messing with the artwork.” A group of four young men climbed onto “Standing Woman,” a tall, bronze…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR This past February, a 12 year old student stuck an piece of chewed up gum to the surface of the well loved Helen Frankenthaler painting, “The Bay”. While the gum did not adhere to the canvas surface, the painting, reportedly worth $1.5 million, was stained by the dollop of gum, leaving a residual mark about an inch and a half in diameter. Museum conservators are currently investigating the best procedures for removing a quarter sized chemical schmear of kid spit. The boy was not identified, but was…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Ten museums affected by hurricanes Katrina and Rita have been awarded special grants from the MIT-based Museum Loan Network (MLN). The organization has provided $4500 to each institution for museum staff to travel to other museums in order to research grant opportunities. In the wake of the major natural disasters, much controversy has surrounded New Orleans, the Gulf coast, and Florida. While much of this discussion has centered on the poor and disaffected, and our government’s failures to respond to the needs of its citizens, the MLN…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Five years ago Tom Smith, who with his wife Becky Kidder, runs Kidder Smith Gallery hit Boston’s staid Newbury Street like a human tsunami. With an impeccable, neat as a pin, obsessively minimalist, high concept space it was evident from the get go that this was a very different persona and approach to the street. The word was that the clean headed Smith, he of the long lashed, dark and flashing, bedroom eyes planned to mostly show Post Pop, what he describes as the “soft porn of the art…