By MARINA VERONICA Print this article The Lane collection of photography by Ansel Adams on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is absolutely breathtaking. But in a way that one might not expect. Envisioning rooms filled with beautiful…
By BIG RED Print this article A publication like Big RED & Shiny thrives on the motivation and dedication of our writers. Their energy and love of Boston keeps them coming back with great new articles, reviews and much more.…
By COLIN TRACY Print this article That sex sells will hardly be news to anyone conscious of the history of advertising. We like looking at the bodies of the people we find sexually attractive—why not? And so ad designers work…
By BIG RED Print this article Kirsten A. Malone : Retrospective, a three-day exhibition, will be the first retrospective of Kirsten Malone’s strong work since her untimely death in 2004 at the age of 29. With this body of photography,…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article When Jane Farver left the position of chief curator at the Queens Museum to become director of the MIT-List Visual Arts Center in 1999, I wrote a Perspective piece for Art New England. She…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article This summer exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art brings to Boston, some for the very first time, a stunning array of A list American and international art stars. It was riveting to get…
By MARINA VERONICA Print this article In 1938, Victor Vasarely, a Hungarian-born artist, painted “Zebra” – claiming that the optical illusion generated from the black and white pattern on a two-dimensional surface was the objective. Although Vasarely is considered the…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article While walking through the National Gallery some years ago from some distance across a large space I spotted an unfamiliar synthetic cubist painting from Picasso’s studio series. From afar there was something off about…
By JONATHAN FARDY Print this article Every spring Boston enters its “congrats to the grads” phase. You start getting invites or evites to graduation parties. You buy the same cards, recite the platitudes, and the ubiquitous “what now” finds its…
By ELLEN WETMORE Print this article The Decordova hosted the winners of the ARTCOM residency for Boston Cyberarts 2005: Jon Klima and Carrie Bodle. Klima’s Train is an HO [1] scale layout featuring two sets of locomotives and cars circling…
By BENJAMIN TIVEN Print this article The Photographic Resource Center is currently presenting a show in conjunction with the Boston CyberArts Festival calledLand/Mark: Locative Media and Photography through May 5th. The show includes four photographers (one of whom is actually…
By BEN SLOAT Print this article Currently showing at the Tufts University Tisch Gallery is an exhibition by the photographer Lauren Greenfield titled “Girl Culture.” Greenfield photographs girls and young women in various guises such as beauty queens, fashionistas, victims…
By ANNEKA LENSSEN Print this article BRI:AIR, a Retrospective Projects from the Berwick Research Institute’s Artist in Research Program Mills Gallery at Boston Center for the Arts February 4 – March 27 Curator: Meg Rotzel Exhibition Design: +/- (Ben Durrell…
By WILLIAM YOUNGWORTH Print this article Sunday, March 18, 1990 is a famous date. On that day, the biggest art heist in U.S. history occurred at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, with over $300 million in paintings lost. Works by…
By MATTHEW NASH Print this article With three years behind it, Gallery Katz is middle-aged by SoWa standards. Started by Drew Katz, a RISD grad originally from Kansas, this gallery showcases work that often stands out from the surrounding venues.…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article Redefining Boston Expressionism Asked if he is a Boston Expressionist in a tradition that started most notably with Hyman Bloom, Jack Levine and Karl Zerbe back in the 1930s, the artist/ painter Gerry Bergstein…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article Speed, Style and Beauty: Cars from the Ralph Lauren Collection Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Curated by Darcy Kuronen March 6 through July 3, 2005 Usually I enjoy tuning in to Emily Rooney who…
By BIG RED Print this article It was a sunny Friday afternoon when the phone rang at the Big RED offices in Jamaica Plain. On the other end of the line was Tim Bailey from Oni Gallery, calling with a…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Print this article Three years ago, Jason Asselin and Marybeth Mungovan, both 2001 graduates, responded to an open call by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) for a site-specific work to enhance the in-progress Boston…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article Beer and Burgers With: Camilo Alvarez, director of Samson Projects Currently showing: iDominicanzo- The New Dominican Wave in Art This piece launches a new series “Beer and Burgers With…” For several years I have…