By MICAH J. MALONE As Big, Red and Shiny enters year three I am reminded of our first issue two years ago. Sean Horton was editor then and asked me to write about the “Rare Vermeer” that was then on…
By CHARLES GIULIANO The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts includes two remarkable paintings by the French Pompier or Academic/ Salon painter, Jean-Leon Gerome (1824-1904). A student of Paul Delaroche he traveled to Turkey in 1854 and…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Despite the explosion of rumours, speculation, fear, anger and other emotions that ran through Boston last week, the big news is that there is actually NO news. Green Street Gallery will remain open, with the…
By CHARLES GIULIANO January 4, 2006 The formally produced, studio portrait of Elspeth Kinnucan in blue scrubs, holding up snap shots of her two sisters proved to be riveting. She stares out at us with piercing blue eyes that are…
By MATTHEW NASH Here at the start of the new year, I thought I’d take the opportunity to offer a “State of Big RED” report to you, our loyal readers and supporters. 2005 was a big year for us, for…
By MICAH J. MALONE God, I love lists. Every year publication after publication does it’s “best of” or “Top 10” to be sure everyone knows what important events occurred during the year. Over time I have become enamored with these…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR The LEF Foundation has announced the awards for their Contemporary Work Fund. Totalling $303,000, this funding supports a wide range of artists, individuals and projects in New England. PERFORMING ARTS Dance Island Moving Company Funds…
By CHARLES GIULIANO November 20, 2005 With artist, entrepreneur, publisher, gallerist, Abraham Lubelski, anything that engages his attention and imagination is possible. Five years ago, not long after I launched Maverick Arts Magazine as an eletter, he was one of…
By CHARLES GIULIANO November 24, 2005 Settling into a booth for a Beer and Burger session, Mark Lee Favermann, produced a series of glossy images of his latest project, an installation of silhouettes of 20 birds created over the past…
By RACHEL GEPNER The blogs have already had a field day with Kevin McCormick’s tragic and luridly fascinating death (“To think I’ve been walking three blocks for coffee…”), and the papers practically shit their pants about it: the horror! Across…
By KATHRYN ADA DUTOIT Space Other’s raison d’être is to provide a venue for artists who would not otherwise have the opportunity to show in Boston, or even outside of their native countries. The current show, “Closer,” features the work…
By CHARLES GIULIANO “You’ve known me since I was a little squirt,” Kathy Bitetti laughed as we met for a beer and burger to discuss her remarkable multi tasking as artist, curator, public policy advocate and long term director of…
By MATTHEW NASH Zach Feuer is one of the most amazing people I know. He arrived at the Museum School in the mid-90’s with a dynamic approach to making art, to looking at work, and talking about what he saw.…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Print this article Will we ever tire of 9/11 artwork? Probably not, just as long as the framers of popular debate continue to espouse viewpoints that only take into account the two most disparate philosophies they are…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article The remarkable, panoramic, film inspired paintings of Damian Loeb first came to my attention through the solo exhibition “Public Domain” at Mary Boone Gallery in 2001. This initial exposure was benign as I was…
By BIG RED AN INTERVIEW WITH KIRSTEN FORKERT by RACHEL GEPNER THE ARTIST IN RESEARCH RESIDENCY by MATTHEW NASH THE BERWICK IN BOSTON by CHRISTIAN HOLLAND THE REVOLVING DINNER by MICAH MALONE For an Institute dedicated to supporting “concept-driven…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Moments after leaving the Thomas Hirschhorn exhibition “Utopia, Utopia=One World, One War, One Army, One Dress,” which will be on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston through January 16, 2006, I encountered a woman passing…
Big Red & Shiny: AN INTERVIEW WITH WILLIAM STOVER By REESE INMAN Cerith Wyn Evans’ first solo US museum survey was presented at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, from Oct 6, 2004 – Jan 30, 2005. The exhibition included…
By MARINA VERONICA Print this article Upon viewing Duane Slick’s new work at the Nielsen Gallery, one may recall Andy Warhol’s 1985 silkscreen prints of company logos and symbols or collaborative paintings with the young African-American graffiti artist with Haitian…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article In October, Gallery NAGA, on Boston’s Newbury Street, will present an exhibition of new work by Robert Ferrandini. Since his stroke in October, 2001 the gallery has shown and sold paintings and drawings from…