By JAMES HULL I have tried for over a week not to respond to the simplistic, one-sided, Op-Ed rant by Ken Johnson about Christoph Büchel’s problematic Mass MoCA installation disguised as a “Critic’s Notebook”. The opinion piece was proudly run…
By KATHLEEN BITETTI INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS & THE HEALTH CARE REFORM LAW In 2004, Massachusetts altered the law governing Independent Contractors, unbeknownst to many in this State. Essentially, it is now next to impossible for someone to be paid as an…
By THOMAS MARQUET #20: Just as an experiment in seeking that elusive demographic interested in comics about art as well as other things for which the internet is far more popular, I’d like to write out here the three words…
By CHARLES GIULIANO For many years yard sales and flea markets have been a way of life for my artist friend Harry Bartnick. Over a beer and burger recently, actually he doesn’t eat red meat but likes a single pint…
By JENNIFER MCMACKON I have a vivid memory of the credenza that housed the record player in my parent’s living room. It was long and low – all dark wood with vaguely Spanish wrought iron details. Its surface was sectioned…
By MATTHEW NASH A few years ago, the Wang Center [1] showed the film Apocalypse Now in its original version. Coppola had run way over budget, and in 1979 Paramount released this unpolished version to a limited audience, probably in…
By STEPHEN V. KOBASA Wearing a white linen suit, Theodore Roosevelt sits inside the metal cab of a steam shovel during his visit to the newly dug Panama Canal. The workers in the photograph hardly register – they are edges…
By HEIDI AISHMAN Vieques: A Long Way Home, Bonnie Donohue’s exhibit at Casa de la Cultura, consists of several multi-paneled photographs and panorama’s of the U.S. Navy bunkers embedded in the landscape of the island of Vieques. Vieques is a…
By SCOTT ALBERG Second Gallery featured the work of artists Tyler Drosdeck and Brendan Harman in its final exhibition before closing its doors. Though each exhibited separate projects and pieces, the two artists collaborated on the show’s conceptualization and decided…
By JACQUELINE HOUTON Artists have long turned to travel as a wellspring for inspiration—Van Gogh had the amber light of Arles, Gauguin the women (and girls) of Tahiti. In Fusiform, the latest exhibition at the Rhys Gallery, Chicago-based artists Juan…
By MATTHEW NASH Mobius Artists Group has been a major part of the arts in Boston for nearly thirty years. This past week, they announced that they will be moving new a new space in the South End, through the…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND I ran into Bill Arning, the Curator of MIT’s List Visual Arts Center, at a talk at MIT on March 11 and he gave me the scoop: Laura Donaldson was leaving the BCA. The leadership there was…
By BIG RED Thursday, June 21st, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Rhys Gallery for the opening of “Fusiform” —-
By BIG RED Monday, June 18th, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at The Berwick for the closing reception of Jon Taylor’s “Head Acres” —-
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Laura Donaldson was informed last February that her days with the Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) were numbered. The BCA no longer wanted a Director for its Mills Gallery; a reorganization of its management…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR One of the things we want to do with Big RED & Shiny is connect artists with each other, and with organizations and conversations that can help them make a difference. Our links section is…
By STEVE AISHMAN “You see, visiting art exhibitions is a terrible act of violence that we perpetrate on ourselves.” – Trotsky “He has helped to preserve, protect, and present the cultural and artistic heritage of our world.” – President George…
By CHARLES GIULIANO It is tough for Arlette Kayafas to get around. She has been trying to find the time in a busy schedule to have an operation on her knees that will take four months of rehabilitation. So Arlette…
By KATHLEEN BITETTI I have some great news to report out. On June 5th the Connector Board voted unanimously to change the definition of Gross Income to Adjusted Gross Income contained in the Regulations “Determining Affordability for the Individual Mandate…
By THOMAS MARQUET #19: Thomas Marquet’s comic strip about life in a gallery. “The White Cube” comics can be read in series in the Big RED & Shiny Collections section. Thomas Marquet is a cartoonist, sculptor, and critic, based…