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By BIG RED Print this article April 28, 2005 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Edible Art, a fundraiser for the scholarship fund at Lesley University. Edible Art was held this year at the Skywalk of the Prudential Center. Pictures by Pam Pritzker, Fred Levy, Jason Dean and Matthew Nash.
By BIG RED Print this article May 13, 2005 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the opening for Word of Mouth/Works on Paper at Rhys Gallery, located at 70 Northampton St., #105, Boston.
By BIG RED Print this article April 28th, 2005 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town from the off-site reception for Tim Saltarelli’s Velodrome, in conjunction with In the End, Maybe It was Never Even There.
By BIG RED Print this article According to Reuters, thirty-two works by Jackson Pollock, created between 1946-49, before his meteoric rise to fame, were uncovered in a Long Island warehouse. The works were found by a filmmaker, Alex Matter, who said the paintings were part of his late parents’ estate. Reuters reported Matter as saying: “The works included 22 of the artist’s drip paintings and two enamels on paper. The rest, all on board, are unfinished and experimental works that might show how Pollock explored the order of laying down colors.” Although…
By BIG RED Print this article Last week, the North Adams city council voted to dismiss a proposal submitted by councilor Robert R. Moulton Jr. seeeking to prohibit any display of “nude or partially nude female or male” where it might seen in public. The “nude” debacle stemmed from a nude sketch of a female created by local artist and developer Eric Rudd. which hangs in Gallery Row and Berkshire Gifts. The image in question could be seen though the window by those who passed those on the street. Moulton decided last…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article Mary Ellen Strom: The Nudes Judi Rotenberg Gallery Through May 7 Corporate Commands Space 200 Through April 29 Denise Marika: Detritus Howard Yezerski Gallery Through May 24 Some time back we wrote a Beer and Burger piece on Cyberarts Festival director George Fifield. Through May 8 that annual event is in full swing. One would need seven league boots to get to all of the events but right now I am about as ambulatory as Red Sox starting pitchers, Curt Shilling and David Wells. Which is…
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 it that drew me forward for closer examination. Reading the wall label my suspicions were confirmed that there was something not right about the painting. It wasn’t by Picasso. Instead it was a painting by Arshile Gorky. Of course, I thought. That makes sense. Having previously seen the Gorky retrospective at the…
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 way into your conversations with the newly educated. For the art fan, it’s the season of “Thesis Shows.” Even for the interested it can be overwhelming. Which ones should you see? While there, how do you make sense of it? With so much screaming for your attention, its easy to slip into…