By MATTHEW NASH Art Interactive, the Cambridge-based alternative space focusing on new media and interactive art, has recently announced that they will be moving to an as-yet-undecided location, and that there have been some significant changes to their Board of…
By HEIDI MARSTON AISHMAN At 5:00 on August 28th, people lined up outside the frosted glass doors of Rhys Gallery. They all knew the doors wouldn’t open until 6:00, it was hot, humid, and everyone was anxious. As they waited…
By MATTHEW NASH On August 11th, a group of artists gathered at the Design Center in Boston for an over-the-top photo shoot. The Superheroes Project, created by Brian Burkhardt and Tanit Sakakini, gathered 18 artists to dress as superheroes in…
By VICTORIA Z. ALEXANDER Only painting which itself succeeds in beings a monstrous act succeeds in resolving and in reabsorbing the monstrosity of our lives, only painting that succeeds in becoming a mythic operator also succeeds in resolving the monstrosity…
By BIG RED Saturday, August 11th, 2007 Candid snaps from the a day at The Boston Design Center for a photo shoot by Brian Burkhardt and Tanit Sakakini. For this project, the artists are creating an iconic image of 18…
By BIG RED Saturday, August 11th, 2007 More candid snaps from the a day at The Boston Design Center for a photo shoot by Brian Burkhardt and Tanit Sakakini. For this project, the artists are creating an iconic image of…
By BIG RED Thursday, July 26th 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the opening of STENCILS: Public Space and Social Intervention. Exhibit organized by Hiroko Kikuchi and Alice Vogler. Participating artists: Dirk Adams, Beth Balliro, Michael…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Inspired by the success of our Listings RSS feed, we’ve added a new feed for our Calls For Artists & Opportunities! So, for those of you who use RSS to keep up on what’s happening…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in conjunction with the Forsyth Institute, has annouced that it will acquire the the Forsyth Institute’s property on the Fenway, thereby expanding the MFA’s visibility in the area. The…
By BIG RED & SHINY The Big RED & Shiny 2007 Annual has finally arrived! Packed with essays by Jane Hudson, James Nadeau, Marrikka Trotter, Meg Rotzel, Heidi Aishman, Matthew Gamber, Steve Aishman and Matthew Nash, our new book brings…
By STEVE AISHMAN Whatever happened to mindless creation? In a world that rationalizes war, where is the defiant irrationality? Where is the ethical anarchy? The Socratic cynicism? I went to Scope Hamptons two weeks ago to see what the art…
By MATTHEW NASH Summer is a time for escaping. We escape on vacation or to the beach, we escape into books, we escape to the movie theatre. Issue number sixty-seven of Big RED & Shiny is devoted to escaping. First,…
By FRANK PEREZ Having just read an article on a graffiti artist becoming legitimized by selling a spray painted portrait in a gallery for tens of thousands, in my mind, when I saw the ad for the Stencils, I had…
By JOHN RUGGIERI Robin Rhode’s video performance The Storyteller, involves a lone performer whose storyline is enlivened in expressively drawn wall and ground illustrations using time-exposed action and simple props. It is the seemingly bare production values and materials that…
By ARTHUR WHITMAN To those well-versed in contemporary art, the selection of work in “Recent Acquisitions” is likely to have a wearisome familiarity. Many or perhaps most of the artists will be familiar. Most of the art seems to fall…
By JENNIFER SCHMIDT A pocket in Greensboro, North Carolina: two tracks come together at a crossing, going where/coming from…I don’t know. It’s southern here with some BBQ on the horizon. Old signs and antiques… Beer in the alley… And famed…
By BIG RED HARRY POTTER 5 == THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK by MATTHEW NASH BLACK BOOK by MICAH MALONE KNOCKED UP: GROSS-OUT COMEDY FOR EVANGELICALS by BEN SLOAT THE SIMPSONS MOVIE by MATTHEW NASH ALL THE THINGS I LEARNED…
By MARTINA TANGA Bouncing two balls between the floor and ceiling with changing rhythm (1967-68) is a ten minute long film where Bruce Nauman bounces two balls in his studio. Though first in control, Nauman seems to spend the rest…
By BIG RED Friday, July 6th, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Laconia Gallery for the opening reception of “Taking In,” photographs by students of the Art Institute of Boston. Laconia Gallery Photos by James Hull
By STEVE AISHMAN I watched a new neighbor move-in over the past few days. Most of her big boxes included multiple types of exercise equipment (abs, arms, cardio), HD TV’s for the living room, bedroom and kitchen (she lives in…