By BIG RED Friday, January 11th, 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the opening of “Some Sort of Uncertanity” Axiom Gallery Photos by James Manning and Matthew Nash
By BIG RED Saturday, January 12th, 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the opening of ‘Inside the Box’ A Diorama Exhibition curated George Fifield and Phaedra Shanbaum. Howard Yezerski Gallery INSIDE THE BOX January 4 -…
By BIG RED January 13, 2008 Several arts groups directors, visual artists and performers gathered there for a mock funeral for themselves and their organizations in response to The Boston Foundation’s (TBF) recent report on the Arts Economy of Boston,…
By BIG RED January 4th, 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the Harrison Street Galleries for First Fridays.
By THOMAS MARQUET #27: What do you do with it? “The White Cube” comics can be read in series in the Big RED & Shiny Collections section. Need a visual aid — click here and scroll down.Thomas Marquet is…
By MATTEW GAMBER Snowing. Snow over the area in New England. At least that is what I anticipate; this is the anticipation. Based on this report, come my following sentences: In between digging out your spot, and salting the steps,…
By STEVE AISHMAN So I admit it: I listen to metal. Not the derivative, inauthentic pop-rock that tries to co-opt metal’s brute force by copying its base-line. I listen to the kind of metal can’t be downloaded to the most…
By JENNIFER MCMACKON JM: Lee Goreas, how did you become an artist? LG: I became an artist by chance. A good friend enrolled me in an art program at a local college. After one year in the program I realized…
By JAMES NADEAU The Diorama. We’ve all made one or at the very least experienced one at some point in our lives. Arising out of the theatre in the mid 19th century, dioramas have grown both more complex and somewhat…
By MATTHEW NASH Approaching Gallery XIV from the street, one sees five small paintings by Michael Costello in the front window. These are brightly colored and amusingly straight-forward paintings of Sesame Street characters (Elmo, Grover and Ernie), a stack of…
By JACQUELINE HOUTON The idea that all art is propaganda captured quite a few devotees during the 20th century. Seen in writings of George Orwell, Upton Sinclair, and W.E.B. Du Bois, this sentiment would be further refined later in the…
By MATTHEW NASH It has been a few weeks since the Boston Foundation’s “Vital Signs” report (pdf) was released, and it is still a topic of conversation and heated debate. Among those who are on the lower-budget end of the…