By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND The curators of the MFA have titled a survey show of war-themed work spanning several centuries War and Discontent. There is a relationship between those two words, but a rather slim one. In fact, the title is…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND “If you don’t have anything worth saying, don’t say it.” This was a popular aphorism that the more erudite girls would tell the boys on the elementary school playground when I was growing up. Jenny Holzer has…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Once again we much enjoyed the scenic drive along posh Trapelo Road in bucolic, suburban Lincoln. The azaleas were in glorious bloom and here and there on the stately manses workers were busy sprucing up the grounds.…
By MATTHEW NASH The 2007 Boston Cyberarts Festival has come to a close, and when looking back on the variety of shows, the range and complexity of new media works were as impressive as the diverse array of venues hosting…
By MATTHEW NASH Looking at the websites and publications from artists and organizations throughout New England, one is struck by the consistent recurrence of the LEF Foundation logo. From large arts organizations like the Boston Center for the Arts, to…
By BIG RED Wednesday, April 25th, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at The Rose Art Museum for the opening of “John M. Armleder: Too Much Is Not Enough.” Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University
By BIG RED Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007 4th Graders of the Graham & Parks Alternative Public School and local residents participate in artist Kelly Sherman’s Wish Wall Mural project. Along with a mural made up of over 400 written wishes…
By BIG RED Thursday May 26th, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Art Interactive for the launch party of “The New American Dictionary: Interactive Security/Fear Edition” a new book by The Institute for Infinitely Small Things.…
By BIG RED April 21, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED day on-the-town at Judi Rotenberg Gallery for the opening of “Brian Knep: Aging, Works in Progress from the Harvard Medical School” and “Carmin Karasic: Handheld Histories as Hyper-Monuments”…
By BIG RED Thursday, May 3rd, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Judi Rotenberg Gallery for the opening of Brian Burkhardt’s “New Crop.” Judi Rotenberg Gallery
By BIG RED Saturday, April 28th, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Barbara Krakow Gallery for the opening of “Jenny Holzer: Archive”. Barbara Krakow Gallery Photographs by Ben Sloat.
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Raphaela Platow is leaving her post at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University. Platow is moving stakes from Massachusetts to Ohio, taking a position as director for the Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati. CAC’s…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Each spring there are many college professors who retire in Boston and Cambridge, but few have had such a high profile in the arts for such a long period of time as Charles Giuliano. It…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Lose it under one state administration, get it back under another, lose it again, get it back, and get more. Massachusetts Advocates for the Arts, Sciences & Humanities have again lobbied triumphantly for the arts…
By THOMAS MARQUET #18: 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…
By CHARLES GIULIANO During a tour of the small but intense and insightful exhibition “The Last Ruskinians: Charles Eliot Norton, Charles Herbert Moore and Their Circle” the co-curator, Virginia Anderson, and I paused before the remarkably detailed, full scale study…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND This week, the ICA Boston presents Zidane, A 21st-Century Portrait (2005), a film in which 17 35mm cameras follow the French footballer Zinedine Zidane for 90 minutes. The film runs from the moment the first whistle commences…
By BEN SLOAT The famed Russian born novelist (and noted lepidopterist) Vladimir Nabokov once wrote to his mother of the creative process: “We are translators of God’s creation, his little plagiarists and imitators, we dress up what he wrote, as…
By MATTHEW NASH Sometimes it seems as if there is a deep divide in the ways we discuss art in our current moment. On one hand, there is a form of dialogue that begins with ideas and intentions, exploring how…
By JENNIFER MCMACKON Much is said in our time about the intersection of art with public space and the idea of the art gallery that exceeds the limitations of it’s walls. But for Patrick Macaulay, Visual Arts Curator at Harbourfront’s…