By BEN SLOAT In the tradition of Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Roger Ballen uses the square format black and white photograph to display the provocative trappings of human theater in heightened environments. Body parts, wire lines, animals, crusty walls enter Ballen’s…
By JED SPEARE It has been noted here in past pages by Natalie Loveless that a regeneration of performance art is taking place in Boston. Artists and organizers such as Test Performance Art Event and The Present Tense formed their…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Liz Nofziger is an artist with bright orange-red highlights in her hair and robustly rimmed glasses that remind me of the pair an old carpenter might wear in his (or her) woodshop. Her glasses may be just…
By SHA LAR Print this article Baudrillard is not dead. To die, one must first have lived. Become – at last in this end that is also a beginning – a simulacrum of himself, Baudrillard remains always already dead -…
By BIG RED Print this article Friday, March 2nd, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Gallery Kayafas for the opening of Harry Roseman: Cover Up and Matthew Gamber: This Is (still) The Golden Age. Video from…
By BIG RED Print this article Thursday, March 8th, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Jack Leigh Gallery in Savannah, GA for the opening of Pete Chirstman: Modern Pictorialism. Jack Leigh Gallery
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Print this article This past autumn, Art Interactive hosted the exhibition and game show “Art Show Down,” produced by Jeff Warmouth and Roland Smart. This television game show was shot in front of a live…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Print this article This in from Dan Hunter, Executive Director, Massachusetts Advocates for the Arts, Sciences, & Humanities: Governor Proposes a Budget Cut for the MCC Facing a predicted $1.3 billion budget deficit, Governor Deval…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article “For at least six months in the 1940s Hyman Bloom was the most important artist in the world,” Katherine French, the director of the Danforth Museum of Art, in Framingham, Mass., a suburb of…
By THOMAS MARQUET Print this article #14: 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,…
By MATTHEW NASH Print this article After reading and reviewing the new book “Critical Mess,” and reading others’ responses to it, I am left with the lingering question of what, exactly, we expect from art criticism. As an artist, not…
By PATRICK SHORT Print this article In December I walked into the Visual Arts Library at Boston University and was told by a friend that we were going to the Armory Show in February. “Whatev” I replied, in usual fashion.…
By JOHN RUGGIERI Print this article “Where’s the Marketing Department?” “Is your office over there, Tim?” I naughtily quipped. The grey grid pattern of endless squares on every single surface of the museum spoke more to the corporate world than…
By JAMES HULL Print this article In 1993 I visited Chicago for the first time with my younger brother Robert. We had a good friend who had just moved there and went to see him, the town and have some…
By FRANK PEREZ Print this article “Rough Bush” works to undo what every common suburban household values most – safety through stuff – and reveals the artist’s vision of the suburb’s safety as a web of prejudices, group sex, chemical…
By JON PETRO Print this article Given that fine art, by character and presentation, is an objective venture; it would be futile to refute, but not to debate an artist’s concept which yields a contradiction between its aesthetic values and…
By SCOTT ALBERG Print this article Space Other’s current exhibit Artists’ Books: Transgression/Excess brings together more than 150 artists who have worked with the artist book over the course of the 20th and 21st centuries. The exhibition features more than…
By MATTHEW NASH Print this article Part I: The Crisis In the new book Critical Mess: Art Critics on the State of their Practice, edited by Raphael Rubinstein, the heavyweights of contemporary art criticism each take a turn at defining…
By JON PETRO When I read a press release that includes words such as; “experiment,” “fusion,” and “collaboration” it’s hard for me to envision installation art without any new age rhetoric creeping into the back of my head. Maybe it’s…
By BIG RED Print this article February 7th, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town in the Hammond Art Gallery at Fitchberg State College from the opening of Community Through Cameras: Argentina and Ghana.