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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 and Matthew Christensen) artists: Amy Sharp, installation; David Webber, sound & robots; Jessica Rylan, sound installation; John Osorio Buck, 2D; Christy Georg, kinetic sculpture; Aliza Shapiro, Architectural Design; Brendon Wood and Jonah Rapino from Devil Music, contemporary composition; Vaughn Bell, environmental installations and sculpture, biospheres; Carolyn Lambert and Fereshteh Toosi, 2D documentation…
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 Rembrandt, Vermeer, Manet and Degas, along with several other valuable and irrepacable works, were stolen. To this day it is regarded as a fascinating and tragic moment in Boston history. At the heart of the recent controversy around the stolen art is William Youngworth, who has been portrayed in the press as…
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. And like his gallery, Katz himself is youthful and energetic, a mere 26 years old. Perhaps it is his age, or his energy, or his outgoing nature that inspired Big RED & Shiny to sit down with Mr. Katz to discuss his gallery, his artists, and the changing nature of SoWa. BRS:…
By BIG RED Print this article February 18, 2005 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Art Interactive for The Paper Sculpture Show.
By BIG RED Print this article Saturday, March 5, 2005 Candid snaps from the opening of Liz Nofziger and Peter Pizzi collaborative interactive installation Pe(s)t at the Atlantic Works Gallery in East Boston.
By BIG RED Print this article Friday, March 4, 2005 Candid snaps of the members of Sifting the Inner Belt performing the instructional work Pause during FIrst Friday openings on Thayer Street.
By BIG RED Print this article Only a few short weeks ago, Mr. Geoff Hargadon was kind enough to include work in our Big RED: Green event. Not a moment too soon, now that fame has grabbed him by the collar and is taking him for a ride — an unofficial poll reveals that his URL was the most forwarded email of last week! On top of his Internet fame, the ‘real’ press has come calling. That’s right, Hargo has been featured recently in a long list of reputable news outlets, including:…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Print this article W. W. Marquis de Sade D.? * ONI art-performance space will never open again. No, you will not be seeing the scintillating opener Quadrosonic Porn, a 3-screen video extravaganza from NY. In a Kafkaesque nightmare, the day Boston Inspectional Services was to issue ONI’s long-awaited general assembly permit for a theater and gallery with 300-person occupancy, a rogue elephant from the the Fire Department dug up an obscure state regulation barring masonry buildings with wooden joists from pubic assembly over the second floor –…