By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article Boston is renowned for its many educational institutions and a significant number of these colleges and universities offer degree programs in the fine arts. There are also a number of institutions dedicated to studio…
By BEN SLOAT Print this article Having been born and raised in New York’s Lower East Side, it is not without a certain affection that I came across the collaborative multimedia installation show, American Beach, at the SMFA. On view…
By BIG RED Print this article Friday, January 26th, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at The DeCordova Museum for the opening of “Big Bang! Abstract Painting for the 21st Century”. Also, check out Superfriends’ video interviews…
By BIG RED Print this article Saturday, January 27th, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Lynn Arts for the opening of “Works On Paper”. Also, check out Superfriends’ video interviews from this opening. (Video 1 |…
By BIG RED Print this article Saturday, January 27th, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town for the closing event of the exhibition “PRC|POV” called “Photo Slam”. Photographic Resource Center Photos by Jeremias Paul.
By MATTHEW GAMBER Print this article At last, number 56. The issues usually speak for themselves, and this writing is just a snippet among all the other writings: Reviews from shows in academia, a column from the Anonymous Art Dealer,…
By ANONYMOUS ART DEALER Print this article I have received a lot of questions by the readers of Big RED & Shiny and have really enjoyed addressing them in this column. As a person that is now giving advice to…
By JEFF FREEDNER Print this article Editor’s Note: Two days after launching issue #55, we received an email concerning our news item about the passing of Cliff Pfeiffer. It came from Jeff Freedner, a painter who studied at the Museum…
By THOMAS MARQUET #11: Thomas Marquet’s comic strip about life in a gallery. “The White Cube” comics can be read in series in the Big RED & Shiny Collections section. Thomas Marquet is a cartoonist, sculptor, and critic, based…
By JOHN RUGGIERI Print this article I’d been to South Beach only once before for a brief winter respite in the early 90s, when the main strip, Ocean Drive, was awash in models and open-air cafes. The Art Deco architecture…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Print this article Composition is the most basic underpinning of visual communication, if not all visual art-making. It is both a tool and a skill, learned and innate, which when employed well, often goes unnoticed by the…