By SHANE LAVALETTE Shane Lavalette: How did you first discover photography and when did you realize it was the right medium for your ideas? Michael Schmelling: My parents have had an interest in photography, both as a hobby and as…
By MARIA LACRETA The artist Maira Kalman and fellow cartooning hand Roz Chast gave a talk a couple of weeks ago at the ICA, entitled, A Shaky Yet Curiously Enlightening Evening with Roz Chast and Maira Kalman Who Will Show…
By PHAEDRA SHANBAUM Attending exhibitions of video or time-based new media art, can be a tedious and belaboring experience as these types of works tend to be curated inconsistently and installed poorly. The exhibition spaces are darkened (forget about trying…
By MICAH J. MALONE The sparse and poetic work of Avantika Bawa seems at once both subtle and authoritative. “Sit/Stack”, the title of her exhibition at Portland State University’s Autzen Gallery, came to me like a command, a forceful voice…
By ARTHUR WHITMAN Even though Stop. Look. Listen. represents the culmination of a half-decade’s worth of dedicated video-collecting at the Johnson, it has the feel of something out of the blue. Moving images fill most of the modest museum’s temporary…
By JENNIFER MCMACKON Sandra Meigs’ exhibition at Susan Hobbs Gallery is called Scenes for My Affection. In the main gallery the artist presents two clusters of small colourful paintings. The first is an untitled set of three, each of which…
By THOMAS MARQUET #25: Perhaps he should have a more interesting life. “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 in…
By STEVE AISHMAN Based on the Cosmic Calendar, Prof. Steve Aishman has prepared his astrological predictions for people going to Miami Basel 2007. Find your astrological sign and have your future revealed to you! • ♁ The Collector: You will…
By ANONYMOUS ART DEALER Q: How do Boston galleries generally handle framing for a solo show. Who usually pays for it, the artist or the gallery? A: The multiple answers to this question can make your head spin. All galleries…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND The following questions were submitted to Big RED and Shiny by artists and organizers in the arts in Massachusetts. The questions were sent to four members of the state’s legislature and State Treasure Timothy Cahill. Each one…
By MATTHEW GAMBER T’was the first week of December, and all through the house, the heater was grinding, disturbing the mouse. Equally enchanting is the first New England snowfall of the season (as I write) that have to walk home…
By BIG RED Thursday, November 13th, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Simmons College Trustman Gallery for the opening of “Lush: Deborah Bohnert and Rachel Dayson-Levy”
By BIG RED December 1, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED day on-the-town at Open Studios at the historic Fenway Studios, located at 30 Ipswich St. Images selected from the partipating Fenway Artists: Ernest Andrades, Robert Baart, Perry Barton,…
By BIG RED Saturday, November 17th, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at The List Visual Art Center to hear Bill Arning talk about “Sounding the Subject: Selections from the Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection and the…