OUR NEW LISTINGS: EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS, CALLS FOR WORK, CLASSES & WORKSHOPS by BIG RED OUR NEW LOOK: FINDING YOUR WAY AROUND by BIG RED It’s our birthday and we’ve had our fill of cake, presents and cocktails.…
By MATTHEW NASH The Beginning of the End All good things must come to an end. Postmodernism has had its run, but perhaps the time has come to wonder if we are not entering some sort of endgame for the…
By MATTHEW NASH Tocsin (tok-sin) n. 1. a. An alarm sounded on a bell. n. 1. b. A bell used to sound an alarm. n. 2. A warning; an omen. Liz Nofziger makes installations that are more than site-specific; they…
By MICAH MALONE & MATTHEW NASH While editing the article “How To Start And Run An Alternative Gallery Space” by Big RED publisher Matthew Nash in issue #118, editor Micah Malone proposed: I would love a piece that talks more…
By MATTHEW NASH Of all the things I find most difficult as an artist, it is the problem of turning one’s own personal experience and ideas into something that others can understand that seems to be the most universal. Many…
By MATTHEW NASH Andrew Mowbray is a sculptor in the tradition of Joseph Beuys, whose objects exist to facilitate a performative act, and remain as tangible evidence of that experience. His new body of work, Tempest Prognosticator, is currently on…
By MATTHEW NASH Print this article It’s no secret that our culture is fixated on war. The United States has been in some form of war, cold or hot, since before my parents were born. As I write this, we…
With the next round of elections approaching, there has been a lot of talk in Boston about growing the creative economy and fostering new arts spaces in the city. At the same time, there are a large number of college…
By MATTHEW NASH On rainy days like these, Gravitron looks colorized — his lights, a fake smile in the dismal afternoon. No matter how he tries to make real for himself the sense that there are other state fairs, that…
By MATTHEW NASH Samantha Fields makes complex and intricate sculptures and installations that are overwhelmingly crafty, undeniably kitschy, and that seem to revel in their beautiful ugliness. This summer, we sat down among the mountains of Afghans, beads, curtains, kitchen…
City Councilor Michael Flaherty is the only candidate of the four men running for mayor of Boston that has an official written position on the creative economy, artists and arts&culture. We’ve posted a copy of Councilor Flaherty’s “Ten Point Plan…
By MATTHEW NASH Performance artists Phil Fryer and Sandrine Schaefer are the duo behind “The Present Tense”, a series of festivals promoting performance art. Recently, they have joined forces with Vela Phelan, Dirk Adams, Alice Vogler and Brad Benedetti to…
REVOLT2DIE & GJYD @ MEME By Matthew Nash Riding among an exhausted busful of Negroes going on to graveyard shifts all over the city, she saw scratched on the back of a seat, shining for her in the brilliant smoky interior,…
BOOK REVIEW: HOW TO START AND RUN A COMMERCIAL ART GALLERY By Matthew Nash There are few in the world who have spent more time and effort de-mystifying the commercial art gallery, and educating artists and collectors about what happens in…
THE 6TH ANNUAL SUMMER MOVIE EXTRAVAGANZA By Big Red HOW TO MAKE A SUMMER BLOCKBUSTER by JAMES MANNING 101 WAYS TO MAKE A “B” MOVIE – X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE by JAMES NADEAU WATCHMEN & THE LIMITS OF ADAPTATION by…
FOR MY BEST BELOVED SISTER MIA: JULIA MARGARET CAMERON @ THE PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART By Matthew Nash There is, perhaps, no better known photo album than the one Julia Margaret Cameron created for her sister Mia in the 1860s. Her…
A LETTER FROM THE ROAD By Matthew Nash For the last few days, my wife and I have been traveling up the coast of Maine, hitting all the shopping towns along the way: Portland, Freeport, Boothbay Harbor. We are unabashedly tourists,…
FAITH AND THE SALE OF ART By Matthew Nash One of the many side-effects of a bursting economic bubble is the revealing of the nature of the shady deals and shaky business models that seem so infallible when money is easy.…
