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By BIG RED January 28, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the grand opening of the new Second Gallery in the Distillery Building, South Boston. Second Gallery Images by Matthew Nash & James Manning.
By BIG RED January 31st 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the reception for “Living in Motion: Design and Architecture for Flexible Dwelling.” This is the final exhibit opening at the ICA Boston at its Boylston Street Location. Links: Institute of Contemporary Art Images by James Manning.
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR The documentary “Zizek!” has been released by Hidden Driver Productions and Documentary Campaign, a non-profit working to combine progressive politics with artistic filmmaking. Hartford’s Real Art Ways made itself the first New England venue for this film on Friday, February 3rd. Slavoj Zizek is perhaps the most notorious philosopher and cultural theorist working today. Often referred to as “an academic rock star” or “the Elvis of Cultural Theory” the documentary promises to give insightfulness and intrigue to this engaging and sometimes controversial figure. The crew follows this…
By CHARLES GIULIANO January 23, 2006 The initial phone call came back in December. An invitation from the artist Arnold Trachtman to come view a large triptych “Cabarett, 1927” which he worked on from 1993-1995 but had just finished. It was taking up a lot of room in his attic studio and he was soliciting curators, critics and friends to come see it before putting it into storage along with a dense clutter of works with mostly social and political themes dating back to the 1960s. He was anxious to make room…
By KATHLEEN BITETTI Greetings to all. I am honored to have been asked to write for Big Red & Shiny, and rather than duplicate my FYI column in artsMEDIA, I am going to write a column that addresses timely public policy and legislative issues that impact working artists. This serves my personal interest in public policy (I have a BA in Economics with a specialization in public policy) as well as the Artists Foundation’s mission and more specifically the AF’s on line project, the Creative Alliance. So what is the Creative Alliance?…
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 display at the MFA. Not having permission to use photographs for publication we ended up snapping a picture of myself standing in front of it, something akin to a strategically posed tourist shot. As the issues moved forward it was never clear how long Big, Red would exist or to what capacity.…
By THOMAS MARQUET Nayda Collazo-Llorens’ Mindscapes is a conceptually coherent and thoughtfully installed exhibition. However, despite the quality of its assembly, it is of limited impact as a whole. Its efforts to create a Gestamkunstwerk work best as a well-conceived framework for separate pieces of variable interest, a number of which only serve the larger structure. The show begins strong, particularly with the wall drawing, composed of drafting and masking tapes, as well as transfer and vinyl lettering. It looks somewhere between a city map and an Al Held painting, and its…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND “You are a brave man,” Raishad Glover said to me with subtle sympathy as he wheeled me, head first, into the Coach TV performance space at last weekend’s performance art festival in Fort Point, aptly called Contaminate. I was lying down, facing the ceiling, on a flat-bed cart, only about 10 inches off of the ground, cushioned by a chiropractic mat of sorts which positioned my head in a doughnut shaped pillow. Glover had spun me around several times just outside the makeshift kiosk he and his CoachTV partner,…