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…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: THE DISTILLERY STUDIOS,SOUTH BOSTON By Big Red Sunday May 10th, 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the Distillery Studios in South Boston for the Plaform2 workshop: ICONography of Climate Change. This event is part…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: BOSTON CYBERARTS GALA EVENT By Big Red Friday May 8th 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the CyberArts Gala at the IBM Research Center in Cambridge. Boston CyberArts
ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE @ THE CUTLER MAJESTIC THEATRE By Chelsey Philpot On Tuesday, April 28th the Celebrity Series of Boston once again brought the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater troupe up from their New York City base. The seats at…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: AXIOM GALLERY By Big Red Saturday May 9th, 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Axiom for a performance by Ensemble Robot. This event is part of the Boston Cyberarts Festival. Axiom Gallery Ensemble Robot
“THE WHITE CUBE” By Thomas Marquet #48: On the theoretical utility of reproduction for the justification of a name. Thomas Marquet is a cartoonist, sculptor, and critic, based in Brooklyn, New York, which is an admittedly unoriginal place to be pursuing…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE By Steve Aishman Why I love abstract art and think it is getting better. “The eye is the natural master of pattern recognition. The eye demands satisfaction by invoking in us strong feelings of…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: THE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE BOSTON By Big Red Wednesday May 29th, 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Museum of Science, Boston for the Radio Lab Listening Party and the opening of “Human^n – digital…
A FEW APPARITIONS OF NATIONHOOD @ THE ALDRICH MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART By Alex Young With its current suite of exhibitions by artists: Dave Cole, Alejandro Diaz, Robert Lazzarini, Frank Poor, Harry Shearer, and David Taylor, the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: EMERSON COLLEGE,HURET GALLERY By Big Red Friday May 1st, 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at opening of Next Generation II: an exhibit of Emerson New Media Students. This exhibition is part of the…
ACTING OUT: SOCIAL EXPERIMENTS IN VIDEO @ THE ICA By James Nadeau There is a trend in contemporary video art to include so-called “real people” or non-actors. I like to think about this shift in two ways. First of all it…
SOL LEWITT @ MASS MOCA (LEWITT AGAIN: DRAWING CONCLUSIONS) By Stephen V. Kobasa Why not draw a line that does not end? One could be made by extending the instructions of Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing 51: All architectural points connected…
HOLLY GABORIAULT @ AS220’S OPEN WINDOW By Nisha Maxwell Holly Gaboriault, known as Madame Meow, draws us into a complexly tiered world. Aesthetically the work captivates through medium, color and ingenuity. Its historical references inform by a combination of cultural myths…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: MAD DASH By Big Red Saturday, May 2nd, 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED afternoon on-the-town at Laconia Gallery for the “150×150 Mad Dash”. Laconia Gallery Video courtesy of Laconia Gallery.