By BIG RED Friday, August 4, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED evening on the town at Jeremy Chu’s apartment in Boston’s South End for his performance, THE RENAISSANCE WINDOW PROJECT: A PARALLAX VIEW
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Locally residing writer, Patricia Cornwell, author of Portrait of a Killer, a novel about sleuthing the identity of Jack the Ripper, the London East End killer, has promised a gift of over 80 works by…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR This upcoming 2006 season, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum of Art will be offering podcasts of their ongoing Tapestry Room concert series, which features young performers and contemporary composers. The podcasts are a part of…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR While it has been unofficial knowledge for a while now, George Fifield has officially confirmed his departure from the DeCordova Museum. Fifield told Big RED & Shiny that the museum has closed the curator of…
By KATHLEEN BITETTI Jason Schupbach is the director of ArtistLink which is currently housed at the Massachusetts Cultural Council. He has been attending meetings for artist housing and artist work space development all over Massachusetts for the past year and…
By JASON DEAN At art school in NY city, I learned an important lesson that no ridiculous amount of tuition could have taught me: no one is about to hold your hand in any way and the real world should…
By JENNIFER MCMACKON I’m in the studio of Toronto artist Andrew Reyes. With upcoming solo exhibitions both here at Diaz Contemporary and stateside at Buffalo’s Hallwalls, he’s an artist to watch. I’m looking for evidence of sculpture. I’d especially love…
By JON PETRO I went to see Katz. Honestly, I really did. The single, self-serving reason I drove to the Peabody Essex Museum, in Salem, MA, was to see a panoramic painting by the artist Alex Katz. I don’t know…
By MATTHEW GAMBER A contemporary riddle: How many Ansel Adams calendars does the Sierra Club have to sell to support awareness of the John Muir trail? Based on sales, many admire a tree more in a photograph, which is perhaps…
By BEN SLOAT On view until September 9th at the Green Street Gallery is the multimedia exhibition Astronauts, Monsters, and Silicon Flowers. A dark and quirky rejoinder to the end of summer and the arrival of sober autumn, this show…
By JASON DEAN In Venus at Her Mirror, a well-known painting by Diego Velasquez, Venus reclines on a sofa with her back to the viewer. She’s looking back at the viewer in a mirror held by Cupid. Her face is…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND What does it mean and why did you make it? What is the origin of this piece? Have you ever been to an artist talk and, instead of admiring the artwork, found yourself marveling at how the…