Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue—known for launching the careers of many young artists and recognizing exceptional talent among those already established—is returning to Boston after five long years. Beginning today, the organization is accepting applications from all visual…
By JAMES NADEAU So, Bravo’s Work of Art is now over. In a short (and mindblowingly quick) 9 weeks we paid witness to wacky artists, crazy contests and even minor nudity. 14 artists of varying media and talent levels all…
By JAMES A. NADEAU June 22nd, 2010 Candid photos from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston ‘Topping Out’ ceremony on June 22nd held to celebrate of the completion of the steel structure for the new extension at the Isabella…
By JAMES NADEAU So it is finally upon us: the reality show about artists and the art world brought to us by the Bravo Network and Sara Jessica Parker. I am having a hard time reconciling my disdain for Work…
By JAMES NADEAU Virtuoso Illusion: Cross-Dressing and the New Media Avant-Garde is the latest curatorial project by Michael Rush, and his first since leaving the Rose Art Museum. Big RED editor James Nadeau spoke with Rush about the show, the…
By JAMES A. NADEAU The recent shifting in the curatorial make up of Boston has caused me to stop and reflect upon just what these institutions actually mean to us. With curators moving from one museum to another or an…
By JAMES NADEAU Ah 2010. It is the beginning of a new year and a new decade, time to throw off the shackles of the “naughts” and begin thinking of the future. Tough as it may seem to think positive…
So the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has finally replaced Beal Family Senior Curator Cheryl Brutvan after a year of searching. And it seems that their long, international search for a major curator lead them right to Boston’s ICA. It…
By JAMES NADEAU This week I sat down and chatted with Michael Mittelman, founder, editor, and publisher of Aspect: The Chronicle of New Media Art. Aspect is a bi-annual DVD magazine dedicated to time-based work. They bring together artists and…
By JAMES A. NADEAU It seems fitting that Tobias Putrih and MOS (an architectural collective) have their recent piece Without Out installed at MIT. If for no other reason that it’s aesthetic certainly reflects a couple of buildings not only…
By JAMES A. NADEAU This Tuesday marks the twentieth anniversary of Day Without Art. Begun on December 1st, 1989, the Day Without Art (now known as Day With(Out) Art) was created to spread awareness of the destructive power of AIDS,…
By JAMES A. NADEAU So I have been back in the U.S. for a couple of weeks now, hoping to find time to process and really think about my journey. But as we all know, life goes on. And if…
By JAMES A. NADEAU I have spent the last two issues discussing the work that I viewed in Beijing, so I figured it was time to talk a little bit about my trip to Seoul. A lot of the work…
By JAMES NADEAU In addition to the massive gallery hopping in I did in the 798 District I also spent some time in the relatively new gallery area of Caochangdi. This is an old neighborhood farther out of the city…
By JAMES A. NADEAU In my first three days here in Beijing I have visited the two main gallery districts. The largest and best known area, the 798 District, I managed to cover on Saturday thanks to Megan and KC…
By JAMES NADEAU I am on the verge of a journey that is going to take me to three cities in Asia. Thanks to the Asian Cultural Council I have the opportunity to visit Seoul, South Korea, Beijing, People’s Republic…
I don’t know if anyone else saw this but it is pretty depressing. The Mass Cultural Council has announced that it is forced to cut their program significantly thanks to the state’s decision to cut appropriation for Fiscal Year 2010…
By JAMES A. NADEAU I want to say right off the bat that I am not a theatre person. I am not trained in its analysis nor have I ever participated in a theatrical production (aside for a brief time…
By JAMES A. NADEAU A week or so ago I had the opportunity to visit the studio of Jeffrey Lipsky. Lipsky is an artist who is exploring the opportunities of both art making and art dealing in the online virtual…
By JAMES A. NADEAU “I remember loving sound before I ever took a music lesson. And so we make our lives by what we love.” – John Cage, Lecture on Nothing, 1949 Our relation to music is deep and, one…