Sunday again!
August 19, 2008 www.bigredandshiny.com
Well, another week down and a brand new week ahead. I just read that SF MoMA will be hosting an exhibition dedicated to participatory art. The show sounds pretty amazing. "The Art of Participatio...
Between Barbie Dolls and Humans
August 19, 2008 www.bigredandshiny.com
Alex Sandwell Kliszynski has created images of naked Barbie dolls, some in pornographic poses. The images appear to be made from nude photographs of real humans, hence the extra anatomical features...
Somerville ArtBeat: July 18 19 2008
August 17, 2008 www.bigredandshiny.com
Looking to get outside, perhaps with the whole family? Can you get to Davis Square? If the answer is "yes" for both questions, you may want to check out the variety of activities and performances in...
Roxbury Film Festival - Early Bird Tickets
August 16, 2008 www.bigredandshiny.com
For those planning on taking part in the Roxbury Film Festival, it's not too late for the "Early Bird" tickets. The deadline has been extended to this Friday. Some of the featured guests include su...
Jorg Immendorf on Display in Hamburg
August 14, 2008 www.bigredandshiny.com
Although every major museum in the world has a piece of his I have to say that they really shouldn't. Unless it is simply to show what good art is not. In touring the Montreal MFA this weekend we came...
The new ICA
August 14, 2008 www.bigredandshiny.com
I stumbled upon a piece titled "on the exciting controversy that is the ICA architecture" at a blog called this is no time for back-door bragging. It was too funny not to pass along. Click here to see...
Frank Gehry at the Serpentine Gallery
August 13, 2008 www.bigredandshiny.com
Well, I have spent that past few days eating and drinking my way across Montreal with a little art viewing here and there. Not much of it was good but I will write a bit about the Yves St. Laurent Exh...
ASPECT #11 has dropped
August 13, 2008 www.bigredandshiny.com
Today, the latest issue of ASPECT: The Chronicle of New Media Art arrived. The theme of this edition is "Arte de las Americas" and it features an impressive list of artists and commentators: Daniel M...
Get your map of the City Formerly Known as Cambridge
August 10, 2008 www.bigredandshiny.com
Our friends at The Institute of Infinitely Small Things have finished their extended research project "The City Formerly Known as Cambridge", and have produced a map of their results. The project has ...
Seeing it all in action...
August 10, 2008 www.bigredandshiny.com
Tonight I showed up early for the First Friday openings (proud parent of 2 shows opening, thanx!) and got a chance to see some of the effects of the recent gallery shakeup. Bernard Toale Gallery was d...
Quote of the day
August 10, 2008 www.bigredandshiny.com
I know I just linked to this piece in my last post, but the full magnitude of this paragraph is worthy of its own post: Finally, the answer to the question about what created the conditions for this ...
Lewitt is a coming...
August 9, 2008 www.bigredandshiny.com
The Sol Lewitt retrospective of Wall Drawings will open next November at Mass Moca in collaboration with Williams College Museum of Art and Yale University. There are countless flickr accounts with i...
Though we don't typically cover classical, we thought you'd like to know...
August 9, 2008 www.bigredandshiny.com
James Levine was forced to leave Tanglewood to undergo surgery. Do to the growth of a cyst, causing him considerable discomfort, one of his kidneys will be removed. From the press release: "It is...
Conducting foreign policy through photoshop.
August 9, 2008 www.bigredandshiny.com
Not to get all jingoistic on you, but Americans apparently have much better photoshopping skillz than Iranians. The first image below, obtained by Agence France-Presse from Sepah News, the media arm ...
It is a hot sticky annoying Thursday in Boston
August 9, 2008 www.bigredandshiny.com
It seems appropriate to start Thursday with some space age painting. From the BBC: "British painter Nasser Azam (photo above) has said he is 'ecstatic' after completing two sets of artwork in zero ...
