By MICAH J. MALONE The Frederic C. Hamilton building at the Denver Art Museum opened with much fanfare only a few weeks ago. Designed by World Trade Center architect Daniel Libeskind, the new building is a tour de force of…
By MICAH J. MALONE Los Angeles artist Jason Rhoades passed away early last month in what is said to be a possible heart failure. Rhoades was often described as a very enigmatic person, which could easily be discerned from his…
By MICAH J. MALONE Fall is among us, and for Boston that means a flood of students. It’s also the time when the best exhibition venues gear up for those students. It is no secret that the best places to…
By MICAH J. MALONE 9 Evenings Reconsidered: art, theatre, and engineering is a sprawling exhibition centered around a major collaborative effort that transpired in 1966. As the catalog and the curators make clear, to reconsider these 9 evenings is not…
By MICAH J. MALONE Perhaps the most distinct and, ironically, traditional aspects of Nina Lola Bachhuber’s show Yesterday I Ate A Lizard is its insistence on formal strategies. It is surprisingly refreshing to find a sculptor primarily interested in a…
By MICAH J. MALONE Take a stroll through our new issue and you will be impressed with some new updates. For one, take a quick look through our LINKS section, which our publisher has updated and formatted quite impressively. Here…
By MICAH J. MALONE March 8th marked the last day the MFA screened the fabulous documentary Zizek!. With an addictive speech pattern where the Slovenian thinker seems to literally breathe Lacan and Marx, Slavoj Zizek has acquired a major following…
By MICAH J. MALONE “In the end it comes down to what it always comes down to: vision and visionaries. All we have to do is bring it on and not be boring.” -Jerry Saltz —- Finding fresh criticism for…
By MICAH J. MALONE MM: In looking at your films, I was thinking of the concept of “in-between” and how that particular space-time is rarely represented in film. For instance, your film “Fissures”, where throughout the film you are literally…
By MICAH J. MALONE Graffiti art has been infiltrating its way into the “official” art world for more than two decades now. With artists like Jean Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, to name only two of the most well known,…
By MICAH J. MALONE Mel Ziegler and Kate Ericson produced some of the most important and challenging work of their generation during their ten-year collaboration between 1985-1995. The largest survey to date of their often overlooked and complex production opened…
By MICAH J. MALONE As Big, Red and Shiny enters year three I am reminded of our first issue two years ago. Sean Horton was editor then and asked me to write about the “Rare Vermeer” that was then on…
By MICAH J. MALONE The pin-up girls in Suzannah Sinclair’s drawings are not particularly interested in the viewer. With a gaze that is either inwardly focused or off into space, they seem bored more than they are concerned with being…
By MICAH J. MALONE God, I love lists. Every year publication after publication does it’s “best of” or “Top 10” to be sure everyone knows what important events occurred during the year. Over time I have become enamored with these…
By MICAH J. MALONE Susan Jane Belton’s coffee cups have been annoying me for years. These serial drawings and paintings first reminded me of Warhol soup cans or Jim Dine’s drawings of utensils, except without the precision of Dine or…
By MICAH J. MALONE Awhile back I was very intrigued with John Baldessari and his collection of film stills. What an elaborate and obsessive system he created where personal organization had more meaning than the “original” source of his material.…
By MICAH J. MALONE Because it is the only gallery I can think of that gets its name from and quotes Michel Foucault in its mission statement, I wanted to know more about Space Other. I caught up with the…
By MICAH J. MALONE The latest issue of FRIEZE magazine is dedicated to asking what has changed in art over the last 40 years. Responses inevitably vary from the rise of technology-based art to the supposed fall of minimalism, or…
By MICAH J. MALONE Print this article Perhaps ever since the inception of conceptual art many artists have insisted on using whatever medium necessary to achieve an idea. Not willing to assign themselves to a singular medium and become hostage…
By MICAH J. MALONE Print this article Green St. Gallery is under construction. With saws, Vacuums, scraps of wood, and tons of dust, Douglas Weathersby’s newest installment resembles a construction site as much as an art exhibition. Commissioned to complete…