Prior to the Odd Spaces panel discussion co-presented by Big Red & Shiny and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, moderator Liz Munsell spoke with artist Marilyn Arsem, an artist who, for her Odd Spaces performance, laid for 6 hours underneath a bench in the Egyptian funerary galleries, filling the space with the overwhelming scent of jasmine while making herself invisible to visitors [interview continued at Big Red & Shiny…] I Have to LeaveDurational performance by Marilyn ArsemBlow! 8 International Performance Art FestivalIlsede, Germany June 2012Photo by Insa Wagner 
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Prior to the Odd Spaces panel discussion co-presented by Big Red & Shiny and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, moderator Liz Munsell spoke with artist Marilyn Arsem, an artist who, for her Odd Spaces performance, laid for 6 hours underneath a bench in the Egyptian funerary galleries, filling the space with the overwhelming scent of jasmine while making herself invisible to visitors [interview continued at Big Red & Shiny…]

I Have to Leave
Durational performance by Marilyn Arsem
Blow! 8 International Performance Art Festival
Ilsede, Germany June 2012
Photo by Insa Wagner 

Editor Anulfo Baez reviews Artist/Rebel/Dandy: Men of Fashion on view at the RISD Museum now through August 18 [continued at Big Red & Shiny…] Richard Dighton (1795-1880),Mirror of Fashion, London, WilliamSams, 1823, hand-coloredetchings on wooden spool, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon collection.
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Editor Anulfo Baez reviews Artist/Rebel/Dandy: Men of Fashion on view at the RISD Museum now through August 18 [continued at Big Red & Shiny…]

Richard Dighton (1795-1880),
Mirror of Fashion, London, William
Sams, 1823, hand-colored
etchings on wooden spool, 
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon collection.

“Fabiola Menchelli’s highly staged photographic abstractions of screens and angled surfaces are familiar, though bathed in a sheen of digital moiré that comes off as a pretty fresh signature. Some compositions resemble architectural elements, and the jagged beams of light that fall across them speak to the anxiety-inducing lighting techniques of film noir.” - Evan Smith on the first MassArt MFA Thesis Exhibition [continued at Big Red & Shiny…] Fabiola MenchelliTriangular Hall, 2012archival inkjet print© Fabiola Menchelli 2012
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“Fabiola Menchelli’s highly staged photographic abstractions of screens and angled surfaces are familiar, though bathed in a sheen of digital moiré that comes off as a pretty fresh signature. Some compositions resemble architectural elements, and the jagged beams of light that fall across them speak to the anxiety-inducing lighting techniques of film noir.” - Evan Smith on the first MassArt MFA Thesis Exhibition [continued at Big Red & Shiny…]

Fabiola Menchelli
Triangular Hall, 2012
archival inkjet print
© Fabiola Menchelli 2012

Robyn Day reviews photographer David Hilliard’s The Tale Is True, previously shown at Yancey Richardson in Manhattan, now on view through May 25 at Carroll and Sons Gallery [continued at Big Red & Shiny…] David Hilliard Transgressors (DH240) from A Tale is True 2012Courtesy of the artist and Carroll and Sons, Boston.
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Robyn Day reviews photographer David Hilliard’s The Tale Is True, previously shown at Yancey Richardson in Manhattan, now on view through May 25 at Carroll and Sons Gallery [continued at Big Red & Shiny…]

David Hilliard 
Transgressors (DH240) from A Tale is True 2012
Courtesy of the artist and Carroll and Sons, Boston.

Created by architect H.H. Richardson, Trinity Church was the first example of the Richardsonian Romanesque style, which was later used in churches, city halls, and county courthouses across America. Editor Anulfo Baez recaps its inclusion in the new PBS special 10 Buildings That Changed America [continued at Big Red & Shiny…] Image via Wikimedia Commons user: MatthiasB
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Created by architect H.H. Richardson, Trinity Church was the first example of the Richardsonian Romanesque style, which was later used in churches, city halls, and county courthouses across America. Editor Anulfo Baez recaps its inclusion in the new PBS special 10 Buildings That Changed America [continued at Big Red & Shiny…]


Image via Wikimedia Commons user: MatthiasB

Contributor Evan Smith finds visual metaphors for the graduate art school experience in the first MassArt MFA Thesis Exhibition in our ongoing Thesis Exhibition Round-up series [continued at Big Red & Shiny…] Installation shot of a Nicholas Sullivan sculpture.Photo courtesy of Evan Smith.
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Contributor Evan Smith finds visual metaphors for the graduate art school experience in the first MassArt MFA Thesis Exhibition in our ongoing Thesis Exhibition Round-up series [continued at Big Red & Shiny…]

Installation shot of a Nicholas Sullivan sculpture.
Photo courtesy of Evan Smith.

Contributor Sarah Sulistio interviews the chief curator and director of the Boston University Art Gallery Kate McNamara, who will participate in tonight’s 7pm panel discussion at the MFA on performance art, co-hosted by Big Red & Shiny [continued at Big Red & Shiny…] Kate McNamaraPhoto courtesy of www.bu.edu
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Contributor Sarah Sulistio interviews the chief curator and director of the Boston University Art Gallery Kate McNamara, who will participate in tonight’s 7pm panel discussion at the MFA on performance art, co-hosted by Big Red & Shiny [continued at Big Red & Shiny…]

Kate McNamara
Photo courtesy of www.bu.edu