Big RED & Shiny (www.bigredandshiny.com) is an online arts journal, based out of Boston. Online since early 2004, Big RED has published 50 issues and over 700 pieces, with a readership of 10,000 and growing. Though Big RED's focus is largely in New England, it has expanded to include venues and events in New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Savannah, Portland, and Toronto. Big RED & Shiny is structured like a traditional print magazine, with a publisher and three editors that oversee each bi-weekly issue.
Big RED & Shiny takes a broad view of art and the arts. Looking at everything from museums to commercial galleries to basements and parking lots, Big RED provides reviews of exhibitions and events; articles examining the larger scope of the arts; and news that is current and helpful to artists. Recently awarded a LEF Fellowship grant, Big RED is almost entirely composed of working artists and editors.
Big RED & Shiny also seeks to be a home for discussion, debate and commentary on the state of the arts in Boston, and invites our audience to participate in these discussions. Further, we encourage arts institutions, curators, and patrons to communicate with the artists of Boston, in hopes of helping the arts of this city to grow and evolve in exciting and innovative ways.
Big RED & Shiny takes a broad view of art and the arts, and will not be limited strictly to galleries or museums. Art happens all around us, often in the strangest and least expected of locales, and we will not deny that non-traditional works or venues are a vital and integral part of the arts in Boston.
Bruce Myren became involved with the PRC in 1992, the year after he graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art (Boston, MA). Helping at opening receptions led to his involvement with the annual Mother's Day Portrait Extravaganza, when his former employer, E.P. Levine Inc., provided digital equipment for the event and where he was the "Digital Evangelist" for four years. In addition, he has donated copywork and his own artwork to the annual PRC Benefit Auctions since 2001 and currently contributes his expertise to numerous PRC projects.
Myren's recent exhibitions include solo shows in Boston at the Laconia Gallery, Panopticon Gallery, and The Artists Foundation and two upcoming groups: Boston Cyberarts Festival at the Lillian Immig Gallery at Emmanuel College (Boston, MA) and Landscape: Fact and Fiction at the William Benton Museum of Art (Storrs, CT). Currently, he is an adjunct faculty member with the new digital photography program at The New England Institute of Art (Brookline, MA). Although he shoots his personal landscape work with his 8x10 Deardorff camera, Myren started his own freelance company, BeeDigital: Imaging Support and Services, in 1999 and continues today to help photographers, art directors, and publishing houses navigate the digital world.
