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By Anulfo BaezOctober 23, 2013 0

Architecture under Threat and On Exhibit: Boston City Hall at the Boston Society of Architects

Boston City Hall is the building Bostonians love to hate the most. As one of architecture’s “ugly” ducklings, Boston City Hall symbolizes the city’s coming of age in the late 1960s. It began in 1961 with a nationwide, juried competition…

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By Anulfo BaezSeptember 10, 2013 0

Making the Arts a Priority at MassCreative’s ‘Create the Vote’ Mayoral Forum

On Monday night, Emerson College’s 550 seat auditorium at the beautifully restored Paramount Theatre was packed—artists, arts administrators, advocates, critics and many other professionals working in the creative industries gathered—as the city witnessed its first-ever mayoral forum on the arts.…

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By Anulfo BaezJuly 23, 2013 0

BLOGGED! A Roundup of New England-area Museums with Blogs

In my last post, I wrote about the Peabody Essex Museum’s newly launched blog, Connected. In this post, I highlight some institutions across New England that are embracing the world of blogging. In Boston, the Institute of Contemporary Art was…

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By Anulfo BaezJuly 18, 2013 0

Peabody Essex Museum Launches ‘Connected,’ Its New Blog

Photo by Walter Silver/PEM Museums across New England are slowly catching up to other museums already dominating the blogosphere. The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem is the latest cultural institution in New England to add blogging to their already…

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By Anulfo BaezJuly 3, 2013 0

Inside Out: Introducing Katherine Vetne

Our Daily Red is pleased to continue our artist-in-residence series titled Inside Out. Every month, a new guest artist will have access to the platform to publish images and jot down thoughts about inspiration, obsession, creative failures and insights.…

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By Anulfo BaezJune 6, 2013 0

The Foster Prize: Luther Price

Price with #9 A Study in Decay at the Institute of Contemporary Art. Photo: John Kennard. Some of my fondest memories during my college years can be traced back to my art and architectural history courses, sitting in a…

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By Anulfo BaezMay 24, 2013 0

deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum Gets Social with #DrawArt

If you’re on Twitter, you may have come across the hashtag #DrawArt. On Thursday 16 May, 2013, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum invited Paige Dansinger, artist, art historian, and #DrawArt iPad program designer (@MuseumPaige) for a digital “Draw in…

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By Anulfo BaezMay 8, 2013 0

A New PBS Special Highlights 10 Buildings That Changed America

In an 1885 poll of the top ten buildings in America, Henry Hobson Richardson’s ecclesiastical masterpiece on Copley Square was voted as the number one building in the country1. That building is Trinity Church (1872-1877) and in 1986 just over…

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By Anulfo BaezMay 6, 2013 0

Artist/Rebel/Dandy: Men of Fashion at the RISD Museum

Waris Ahluwalia, 2011. Norman Jean Roy, photographer. © Norman Jean Roy. Courtesy of The House of Waris. If there were any doubts that men’s fashion has been the center of attention in recent years, let the museum at the…

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By Anulfo BaezApril 17, 2013 0

Five Questions with Arlette Kayafas on the 10th Anniversary of Gallery Kayafas

Arlette Kayafas with one of the Guerrilla Girls in September 2012. Courtesy of Gallery Kayafas Ten years ago, Arlette Kayafas opened a photography gallery on 450 Harrison Avenue (Thayer Street entrance) becoming what Big Red & Shiny contributor Robyn…

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By Anulfo BaezApril 4, 2013 0

Recap: Raphael Montañez Ortíz, “WHAT DOES FLUXES HAVE TO DO WITH IT, 2013” at the MFA.

It was madness, unlike any other event I’ve ever been to at the Museum of Fine Arts. Of course, I am referring to last week’s Boston performance by Raphael Montañez Ortíz entitled WHAT DOES FLUXES HAVE TO DO WITH IT,…

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By Anulfo BaezApril 1, 2013 0

Covering Performance Art through the years on Big Red & Shiny

In light of the Boston Globe’s recent article by Cate McQuaid on performance art in Boston, I’ve been searching the archives of Big Red & Shiny for coverage of Boston’s finest performance artists and performances through the years. I wasn’t…

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By Anulfo BaezMarch 21, 2013 0

The Bostonian Society to Restore Unicorn atop The Old State House

The Bostonian Society announced on March 18 that it is the recipient of a $14,000 gift from the Boston Duck Tours toward the restoration of the unicorn atop the historic Old State House building. Both symbols of the British monarchy,…

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By Anulfo BaezMarch 14, 2013 0

A Community Mural is Vandalized in Jamaica Plain

AFTER: My First Haircut, on the side of Lawson’s Brothers Hairstyling Salon, Egleston Square, Jamaica Plain. Photo: Courtesy of Anulfo Baez A little over a year ago, I wrote a short essay for the Boston Society of Architects titled…

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By Anulfo BaezMarch 11, 2013 0

At the Gardner Museum, A Swedish Impressionist Seduces America

In an effort to leave future generations of Americans the lasting legacy and beauty of art, Isabella Stewart Gardner, along with many of her contemporaries including Henry E. Huntington, J. Pierpont Morgan and Henry Clay Frick, amounted some of…

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By Anulfo BaezMarch 5, 2013 0

Textual Image: Visual Text – Artists’ Books from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts

In The Century of Artists’ Books, art historian and artist Johanna Drucker argues that artists’ books are the quintessential 20th century art form par excellence. Drucker points out that artists’ books came of age after 1945 when these gained their…

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By Anulfo BaezFebruary 21, 2013 0

Pacific Standard Time presents: Modern Architecture in L.A.

I’m loving these promotional videos by Pacific Standard Time and the Getty Trust celebrating the people, art and architecture of Los Angeles. If you find yourself in the city this spring and summer, don’t miss Pacific Standard Time presents: Modern…

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By Anulfo BaezFebruary 13, 2013 0

Works by Felix Gonzalez-Torres Currently Being Exhibited in the Boston-area

Felix Gonzalez-Torres American (Guaimaru, Cuba 1957 – 1996) “Untitled” (Last Light), 1993 Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John Cowles, by exchange, 2010.472 If you’ve traveled to or lived in Boston during the past two years, you’ve…

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By Anulfo BaezFebruary 9, 2013 0

How to Make an Igloo or Build Snow Sculptures

The other day I was browsing though the archives of The Evolving Critic and came across a post from 2011 titled “How to Build an Igloo.” The week I published the post, Boston had been blasted with a winter mega-storm…

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