Todd Brugman finishes smoking his tobacco pipe and begins to carefully layer golden-orange oil paint onto a strip of birch panel. The light sketches of geometric figures in front of him wait pati...
Artist David Buckley Borden and Harvard Forest Senior Ecologist Dr. Aaron Ellison, along with an interdisciplinary team of scientists and artists, created Warming Warning, most recently on view o...
https://bigredandshiny.org/44104/climate-change-at-human-scale/
Every act of creation, by its mere existence, denies the world of master and slave. -Albert Camus, The Rebel We often hear people claim to be slaves to their work, or the system of work, which im...
https://bigredandshiny.org/44085/discriminating-shadows-philosophy-and-art/
Jane Wang is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, and multimedia artist. She curates installation art, musical instrument construction, performance art, and video, among other domains. Wang is a me...
https://bigredandshiny.org/43886/collaboration-and-performance-an-interview-with-jane-wang/
Part of what makes us unique is that we contain bits of memories that belong to our histories and experiences. Yet we connect with each other and find solidarity through our being in the world. E...
https://bigredandshiny.org/43867/radiant-memories-philosophy-and-art/
Recently, just after I viewed the group show Elevated at Gallery VERY in Boston which includes a painting by Candice Smith Corby and sculptures by Sheila Gallagher, Isabel Riley, and Douglas Weat...
The Firmament, the final exhibition at the Hood museum’s temporary downtown space, showcased Toyin Ojih Odutola’s recent portraits in oil pastels, charcoal, and pencil. Created between 2016 t...
A panorama opens as you approach the crest of Prospect Hill in Harvard, Massachusetts. The vastness in graduated shades of distant blues and greens, immediately loosens one’s hold on time and s...
https://bigredandshiny.org/42806/eden-2-0-alexi-antoniadis-at-fruitlands-museum/
Helen Singh-Miller is an artist and practitioner of the Feldenkrais Method of somatic education. Grand Union (2018), her new film incorporating elements of family life and postmodern dance, will ...
https://bigredandshiny.org/42775/grand-union-helen-singh-miller/
“The Last Days of Pompeii” is a loaded phrase, conjuring both tragedy and opulence. Multimedia artist and musician Delia Gonzalez takes these words and burns them across a wall in a sultry pi...
https://bigredandshiny.org/42748/delia-gonzalezs-doomed-decadence/