AGNÈS VARDA: LES VEUVES DE NOIRMOUTIER @ THE SERT GALLERY, CARPENTER CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS By James A. Nadeau The feeling is one of acute sadness. You enter into the gallery and are confronted by fifteen images, one large projection…
Browsing: Volume 1 : Issue #103
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: SOUTHERN GRAPHICS COUNCIL CONFERENCE 2009, CHICAGO, IL By Big Red March 26th, 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at John David Moody Foundation for the opening of World-A-Rama, Our Stories, the SGC Student Fellowship Award…
A CONVERSATION WITH AA BRONSON By Andi Sutton Big RED & Shiny asked Andi Sutton, a Boston-based performance artist and activist, to interview AA Bronson about activism in the arts. Bronson will be participating in a panel talk as part…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: FAREWELL TO BILL ARNING @ THE LIST By Big Red Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at MIT’s List Visual Art Center for a farewell party for Bill Arning, who is…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: PLATFORM2 By Big Red Wednesday March 18th 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED lunchtime on-the-town at “SLOW: A Public Butoh Laboratory” organized by Platform2. Choreographer Alissa Cardone, led a group of participants in an extremely slow Butoh…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: SPACE 242 By Big Red Friday, March 27th, 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Space 242 for the opening of The Miracle 5 Present Holy GJYDhad. Photos by Dave Ortega. Space 242 The Miracle…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: THE BOSTON CONVENTION AND EXHIBITION CENTER By Big Red Thursday March 26th, 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the reception of “Home is Where the Art Is.” A project between Children’s Hospital Boston in…
CHUNKY MOVE @ THE ICA By Chelsey Philpot In the question and answer session that followed the Australian-based dance troupe Chunky Move’s performance at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), artistic director Gideon Obarzanek further charmed an admiring audience. He…
ART AS FASHION, PART ONE By Judy Kermin Blotnick Fashion and art have frequently run on parallel tracks historically (and sometimes hysterically.) Art has been used to cloak in grandeur what is otherwise a commercial enterprise and money made in…
By Steve Aishman A collection of art news from around the globe over the past few years: 1. In 2008, Paul McCarthy’s “Complex Shit”, a giant inflatable dog turd, broke free, destroyed some power lines, and then crashed into a children’s…
A LETTER FROM THE EDITOR By Micah J. Malone A casual overview of our current issue strikes me as something of an anomaly. While at times we have focused volumes, we generally publish precisely what is striking the fancy of our…
“THE WHITE CUBE” By Thomas Marquet #46: When the framing business is in a recession, it’s the jokes about framing that really suffer. Thomas Marquet is a cartoonist, sculptor, and critic, based in Brooklyn, New York, which is an admittedly unoriginal…
MARK MORRIS @ CUTLER MAJESTIC By Chelsey Philpot Mark Morris dancers make it look so easy. From the flick of a wrist to the simultaneous jumps and right down to the curling and uncurling of toes, the Mark Morris Dance…
WILLIAM POPE.L: CORBU POPS By Christian Holland In his exhibition Corbu Pops, artist William Pope.L launches an assault on the show’s venue, Harvard’s big sandy-gray Modernist bastion, the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts. The building is the only structure in North…