By STEVE AISHMAN You shouldn’t be reading this in front of your computer. People have a tendency to keep their computers in clean rooms like offices or on desks with flowers and potpourri. This article should be read in your…
By MEGAN BILLMAN Developments in technology and communication in recent decades, have lead to the evolution of new research methods in many fields. Increasingly, specialists have discovered that when they collaborate, or appropriate the tools of another discipline, they can…
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 Big Red Roundtable is a new feature where the staff at Big RED & Shiny respond to questions that are pertinent to the art world, simply on our minds, or have been nagging us. We share the questions with each…
By BIG RED Print this article May 23rd, 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at TruSpace & Desoto Row Gallery in Savannah for the opening of Coming to Terms, with photographs by Robert Wilson. Desoto Row Gallery
By BIG RED Print this article Thursday, May 15th, 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the opening of The 2008 DeCordova Annual Exhibition. Artists included in the exhibition are: Mitchel K. Ahern, Matt Brackett, Leah Gauthier,…
By MATTHEW NASH Print this article Lately, there has been a lot of news concerning the closing of a number of galleries in Boston. In issue #80, I wrote about this shake-up, and argued that while it is a shame…
By STEVE AISHMAN Print this article “Our enormously productive economy… demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction, our ego satisfaction, in…
By THOMAS MARQUET Print this article #33: Halfway through breaking a sweat, Danny wonders why he said “No problem.” Thomas Marquet is a cartoonist, sculptor, and critic, based in Brooklyn, New York, which is an admittedly unoriginal place to be…
By MATTHEW NASH Print this article Collision Collective “are a group of artists from MIT and the Boston area exploring new technologies,” says their website. This has led them in many different directions creatively, and (not coincidentally) often results in…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Print this article It’s difficult to find context within a polarizing issue. We see it now with our presidential election. Marked blocs of the country’s population are congregating around different candidates because of beliefs, the way they…
By JAMES NADEAU Print this article “Here we have images which only receive actions on one facet or in certain parts and only execute reactions by and in other parts. These are, so to speak, ‘quartered’ images.” -Gilles Deleuze Akerman…
By BRUCE CAMPBELL Print this article Airline. Travel. These two words together have come to exude a sigh; a sigh representing our collective foreknowledge of inevitable setbacks, inconveniences, and humiliations. Despite security and fuel surcharges, and the double disgrace of…
By BIG RED Print this article Saturday May 3rd, 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the Judi Rotenberg Gallery for the opening of ‘Hello my name is Pixnit’ Judi Rotenberg Gallery
By BIG RED Print this article Thursday May 1st , 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED afternoon on the town at the Blue Hill Observatory. Artist in residence Jane D. Marsching launches an aerodynamic weather kite, made in collaboration…
By HEIDI MARSTON AISHMAN Print this article Heidi Marston Aishman provides us with a video of the opening for Raul Gonzalez at The New England Gallery of Latin American Art. Click the image to watch the video in a new…
By HEIDI MARSTON AISHMAN Print this article Heidi Marston Aishman provides us with a video of the opening for Judith Larsen at The Rhys Gallery. Click the image to watch the video in a new window, or click here to…
By STEVE AISHMAN Print this article Some palindromes: Live Evil Ah, Satan sees Natasha Drat Saddam, a mad dastard! Cain: a maniac. No devil lived on. Not so, Boston. Did Joe kill like O.J. did? Evil did I dwell; lewd…
By MICAH J. MALONE Print this article With several prominent commercial galleries shutting their doors only a year removed from two of the best non-profit spaces closing, it seems as good as time as any to talk about funding. Recently,…
By THOMAS MARQUET Print this article #32: Is this one of those “empty gallery” shows? Isn’t that kind of played out? Thomas Marquet is a cartoonist, sculptor, and critic, based in Brooklyn, New York, which is an admittedly unoriginal place…