I remember why I wrote that short paper on Maya Lin for my Introduction to Architecture course in college. I wrote it because I admired Lin’s resiliency during the moments leading up to and after the completion of the…
Call Box 1231 – Photo courtesy of Boston Fire Historical Society. If you’ve stood on a corner in Beacon Hill, the North End, Downtown, the Back Bay or other parts of Boston, you may have noticed one of 2,200…
By Dr. Milda Richardson Print this article The Art of Mastering Life by Brian Francois Observing to Make Sense by Kerry Rubenstein A Joyous Bundle of Summations by Daniel Horowitz Art Does Not Reproduce the Visible by Libby Leyden-Sussler In…
There can be no art revolution that is separate from a science revolution, a political revolution, an education revolution, a drug revolution, a sex revolution, or a personal revolution . . . —Lee Lozano, Statement for Art Worker’s Coalition, 1969.…
A little less than four years ago when it was suggested that I use Twitter for work purposes, I immediately shrugged and didn’t give it a chance. Fast forward to two years later, I joined Twitter mostly to promote my…
Last week that somewhat abstract, somewhat media-hyped notion of a fiscal cliff appeared to have been resolved with the mini-agreement coming from Congressional leaders. Concessions made by both parties produced a marginally equitable deal, though it stopped short of restoring…
The 2012 election cycle is mercifully over, and the outcome is probably as good as we could have hoped for, considering options. While some milestones were crossed (a record number of women in the Senate, a few positive strides for…
The Ugly Americans1 On November 6, 2012, for the first time in its history, a majority of voters in Puerto Rico supported a non-binding referendum to become the fifty-first state of the United States of America. If the petition for…
This Will Have Been is noisy. Charlie Ahearn’s Wild Style (1983) greets you as you get off the elevator, following you into the second room of the exhibit. There you’re confronted by Paul McCarthy and Mike Kelley Family Tyranny (Modeling…
Has anyone else noticed that Art Basel Miami Beach seems to have produced its own seasonal affective disorder? Reading Patricia Cohen’s “An Art World Gather, Divided by Money”, a roundup of the usual art world suspects and their art-fair…
20 images projected for 20 seconds each; a speaker with a concise and engaging narrative; an audience. PechaKucha, the Japanese word for the sound of chit-chat, is a popular form of visual presentation, an extended elevator pitch with images, not…
Art education in public schools seems nonexistent today, and I personally experienced very little of it while attending Boston Public Schools. Small community-based organizations have taken on the role of bringing art education to inner-city neighborhoods, shouldering the job that…
Robert Campbell doesn’t lecture very often, but when he does, he packs the house. Boston’s own Pulitzer-winning architecture critic delighted and mesmerized the audience during a lecture held at the Boston Public Library on Tuesday November 13. Campbell joined notable…
America’s deep South conjures innumerable images. In fact, just to get in the right mindset to write this essay I have taken off my shoes and shirt, moved my computer to the front porch, and am blasting Lynyrd Skynyrd, which…
The 11th Hour Gallery was cold. It was upstairs at 20 East Street, and in the very early 1980s, it was home to Mike Carroll and Penelope Place. Blocks away from South Station, on the outer edges of what was…
Unless you’ve been living under a rock these past 9 months, you know what’s going down tomorrow. This is Big Red & Shiny’s Get Out the Vote post! First of all, here are two links to where to vote in…
It’s a refrain we all hear time and again: Boston’s strength lies in its schools. Whether you believe it or not, it cannot be denied that there is some fantastic contemporary art coming out of several dynamic & respected MFA…
This time last week, I sat in a pew at Montserrat’s second annual academic symposium, Agents of Change: Art as Activism. It’s difficult to imagine a more New England venue for staging a day-long event on engaged art than a…
The weekend has been full of panel talks beginning Friday with Montserrat College of Art’s symposium on art and activism, which was followed Saturday by our very own BIG RED FORUM at MIT’s List Center, and continued on Sunday at…
Carrying its mission into the public forum, Big Red & Shiny will host a discussion on art & community moderated by Katherine French, Director of the Danforth Museum. Community art specifically refers to art that takes place within a community…