By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Print this article The scratch and sniff walls are gone, along with the trippy hallway, though the Star Wars helmets and 2001: A Space Odyssey set reproduction still occupy the entrance to Part II of theList Visual…
By BIG RED & SHINY Print this article The phrase ‘award season’ is rarely associated with anything except cinema. There are the Oscars, Globes, and various critics’ circles who dole out various awards of varying levels of prestige. However, each…
By MATTHEW NASH Print this article In the autumn of 2002, I was starting my second year of teaching at the Museum School in Boston. Among the graduate students, and some of the faculty, there was an intense energy that…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Print this article In today’s terms, the superhero is a component of the contemporary mythological psyche. They are a representative from the everyday world, touched with ultra-human capacities, (however flawed) and act as a social servant to…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Print this article Composition is the most basic underpinning of visual communication, if not all visual art-making. It is both a tool and a skill, learned and innate, which when employed well, often goes unnoticed by the…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND In order to celebrate its 35th birthday, the Boston Center for the Arts showcased artists from its studios, past and present. The show, Studios@35, held in the BCA’s Mills Gallery was curated by local art hero and…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Deval Patrick and Tim Murray will have had nine weeks between Election Day and inauguration to prepare a new administration for their next four years in office. Nine weeks, when considering the length of the administration and…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Note: This piece is the third and final of a series of interviews by Christian Holland with the four 2006 finalists for the ICA’s James and Audrey Foster prize. Previously he interviewed finalists Kelly Sherman and Jane…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Note: This piece is the second in a series of interviews by Christian Holland with the four 2006 finalists for the ICA prize. You can read his interview with finalist Kelly Sherman here. Look for more interviews…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Deval Patrick and Tim Murray will have had nine weeks between Election Day and inauguration to prepare a new administration for their next four years in office. Nine weeks, when considering the length of the administration and…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND On Sunday, November 5, 2006, the 401st Guy Fawkes Night was celebrated. Today, we bring to you the 51st issue of Big RED and shiny. The most significant change to Big RED for Issue 51 is the…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND I don’t know how many times I’ve seen someone describe the volume of his or her headache. Though I can attribute this to Excedrin’s popular, “I’ve got a headache this big” commercial, it is an example of…
By BIG RED October 21, 2006 Jane Farver and Bill Arning of MIT asked Big RED & Shiny to co-host a tour for the Friends of Boston Art group on Saturday, October 21. Big RED ‘s Matthew Nash helped put…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND The best way to critique the absurd is with the absurd; the more flamboyant the critique, usually, the more potent the message.CoachTV, the Raishad Glover and Emily Eastridge “enterprise,” wastes few opportunities for flamboyance in The Buffet…
By BIG RED & SHINY REGENERATION @ AIB by BEN SLOAT LOïS MAïLOU JONES: THE EARLY WORKS @ THE MUSEUM SCHOOL by MATTHEW NASH CRAFTY @ MASSART by CHRISTIAN HOLLAND GüNTHER SELICHAR: MEDIA MACHINES @ TUFTS UNIVERSITY by MATTHEW…
By MICAH J. MALONE Fall is among us, and for Boston that means a flood of students. It’s also the time when the best exhibition venues gear up for those students. It is no secret that the best places to…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND What does it mean and why did you make it? What is the origin of this piece? Have you ever been to an artist talk and, instead of admiring the artwork, found yourself marveling at how the…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND I was informed that there are two types of people who go to the annual (this year being the 33rd) SIGGRAPH conference, technology people (the ones who build the hardware and write the software) and industry people…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND When Kelly Sherman began her residency at the Berwick Research Institute’s Artist in Research (AIR) program, she had set out to create a project based on seating arrangements at weddings. When I heard this, I suspected that…
By BIG RED THE DA VINCI CODE by MICAH J. MALONE X-MEN 3 by MATTHEW NASH NACHO LIBRE by RACHEL GEPNER BRICK by JASON DEAN ART SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL by BEN SLOAT TOKYO DRIFT by CHRISTIAN HOLLAND THE DEVIL WEARS…