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By BIG RED March 3, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the first friday openings at SOWA.
By BIG RED March 3, 2005 Big RED on the Town – ON THE ROAD: Images from DO NOT BE AFRAID OF THE FLOTSAM, installation and performance by John Bjerklie (along with Team Bux and the Happy Flaneurs) at La Gallerie Bleue in Montgomery Hall at Savannah College of Art and Design. Photos mostly by Steve Aishman.
By BIG RED March 3, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at First Fridays. Images by Matthew Nash.
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR After a scare in January that Green Street Gallery might lose their space, we were happy to report that they had city support and were not going anywhere. There were, however, some lingering questions about what the nature of their new lease would be, or if the short-term success would eventually fade as they were forced to bid against other businesses seeking to take over a potentially lucrative site. This past week, James Hull wrote us a quick note saying that Green Street Gallery has secured a…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR A local Boston arts television segment was pulled from its regular evening time slot due to its content covering a local art exhibition that represented the nude form. Art 617, produced by B Roll Films, is broadcast by Boston Neighborhood Network (BNN), a community cable television network run by Boston Community Access and Programming Foundation, which broadcasts on RCN 83 and Comcast 23. Episode 4 of Art 617 – Builders, Pitbulls and Nudes, featured which a November Exhibit of at Atlantic Works Gallery in East Boston “Nudes”…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR During the past year, the U.S. Copyright Office conducted a study and organized a number of public discussions about the potential change in current copyright law that surrounds the use of what is known as “orphan works”. According to the U.S. Copyright Office website, orphan works are defined as, “. . . copyrighted works whose owners are difficult or even impossible to locate.” Congress is currently holding hearings to decide whether or not to change the existing copyright law to allow more freedom to creators by allowing…
By CHARLES GIULIANO “I am attending this conference under an assumed name,” Professor Ellen Landau of Case Western Reserve University informed the audience during a session “Jackson Pollock’s Afterlife” during the annual meeting of the College Art Association, in Boston, this past week. Her much anticipated paper “Pollock Matters” comprised a passionate and largely anecdotal defense of her attribution of a recently unearthed cache of some 32 small works as genuine. It pitted the opinion of her “eye” against the widely reported but fragmentary research results of Richard P Taylor, a professor…
By MATTHEW NASH Recently, through somewhat dubious circumstances, I was able to climb the stairs at 684 Washington Street and revisit Oni Gallery. I guess I am a bit of a broken record, but as I stood there I found myself choked with emotion, bordering on tears, remembering the time I spent there. Each wall, blank and dark in the evening light, shone bright with my memories of the work that once hung there. I saw Lazaro Montano’s tile installation in one corner, Jay Heikes cut paper pieces along the west wall,…