Press 2004
Big News Magazine — cover and inside, homeless benefit magazine, NYC
Magazine cover · 2004-04
BIGnews Vol 5 No 41, April 2004 — In this issue: Matt Sesow's Iraqi Images
BIGnews — The Art and Literary Monthly (Mainchance / Grand Central Neighborhood, New York)





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Photographed by Matt Sesow from his press packets, October 18, 2026; text transcribed from the photos by Claude.
HELPING THE HOMELESS HELP THEMSELVES
Buy From Authorized Vendors Only Vol 5 No 41 April 2004
BIG news
The Art and Literary Monthly
$1
IN THIS ISSUE:
Matt Sesow's Iraqi Images
BIGnews exclusive: Jerzy Kosinski & The Shooting Gallery
BIGnews fiction by Misha Firer
PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY MAINCHANCE, A PROGRAM OF GRAND CENTRAL NEIGHBORHOOD
BIGnews Art — Featuring Matt Sesow
[Captions]
NOWHERE TO GO, BUT DOWN, 9" X 12", ACRYLIC/MIXED ON BRISTOL PAPER
WAR CALL, 9" X 12", ACRYLIC/MIXED ON BRISTOL
FALLEN 4, 4"X6", ACRYLIC/MIXED ON MATBOARD
WOUNDED, 30" X 40", OIL/MIXED ON CHIPBOARD
BIGnews ~ April 2004 / April 2004 ~ BIGnews ~ 9
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BIGnews
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Jeff Grunberg
Cover Art
Disarm (The Ties That Bind) by Matt Sesow
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Cover Art
Disarm (The Ties That Bind) by Matt Sesow
About our contributors
[Notes on Tom Beland, Benjamin Cheever, Fernanda Cohen, Misha Firer, Brad Frederick, Patrick J. Morgan, John Ray, Jr., and George Tautkus — not about Sesow; not transcribed]
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Magazine cover · 2004-04 (Vol 5 No 41, April 2004)
BIG news, April 2004 — In this issue: Matt Sesow's Iraqi Images
BIG news — The Art and Literary Monthly
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Photographed by Matt Sesow from his press packets, October 18, 2026; text transcribed from the photos by Claude.
HELPING THE HOMELESS HELP THEMSELVES
BIG news — The Art and Literary Monthly
Buy From Authorized Vendors Only — Vol 5 No 41 April 2004 — $1
IN THIS ISSUE:
Matt Sesow's Iraqi Images
BIGnews exclusive: Jerzy Kosinski & The Shooting Gallery
BIGnews fiction by Misha Firer
PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY MAINCHANCE, A PROGRAM OF GRAND CENTRAL NEIGHBORHOOD
[Handwritten: Cover by Sesow]
Magazine article · 2004-04
[Art pages] — April 2004 ~ BIGnews ~ 9
BIGnews
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Photographed by Matt Sesow from his press packets, October 18, 2026; text transcribed from the photos by Claude.
[Captions:]
FALLEN 4
4"X6"
ACRYLIC/MIXED ON MATBOARD
WOUNDED
30" X 40"
OIL/MIXED ON CHIPBOARD
[Names painted on the four small portraits:] ROBERT 16, DONALD 15 [partly legible], HOWARD [number illegible], JAMAL
April 2004 ~ BIGnews ~ 9 www.Mainchance.org/BIGnews
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From the press archive
Where this record comes from
- history.sesow.com (live, 2026-10-03)
- Matt Sesow press packet (photographed by Matt, 2026-10-18)
Cite as: Sesow, Matt. “Big News Magazine — cover and inside, homeless benefit magazine, NYC.” Matt Sesow Career Chronicle, 2004. history.sesow.com/e/2004-big-news-magazine-cover-inside.html. Accessed [date].
Were you there? Do you have a photo, a clipping or a memory of this? Please write to sesow@sesow.com or use Ask Matt a question, and it will be added here.
Also in 2004
- Exhibition Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, MT
- Exhibition The Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT
- Exhibition Hearst Art Gallery, Saint Mary’s College, Moraga, CA
- Exhibition Loveland Museum and Gallery, Loveland, CO
- Press Washington Post — “A Deluge of Water Works” review of the AVAM “Holy H2O” exhibition singles out Sesow’s…
- Exhibition First solo exhibition in New York City
- Exhibition Nature Visionary Art Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
- Exhibition First American Visionary Art Museum exhibition
- Press Cate Hescox, Reuters News — “Visionary Artists Bring Personal Struggle to Work,” extensive interview feature…
- Press Tony Harvey, Intowner Magazine, Washington, DC
- Press J. Bowers, Baltimore City Paper
- Press Chris Warner / Alcove Gallery, Atlanta Magazine
- Press Timothy Cahill, Albany New York Times Union
- Exhibition Returning Guest Artist — Kentuck Festival, Tuscaloosa, AL
- Exhibition Two-Person Show — with Jay Schlette
- Exhibition Sesow paints live — Viewpoint Gallery, Schenectady, NY
- Exhibition Artomatic 2004, Washington, DC
- Press Washington Post — “Ask the Expert” column interview
- Press Washington Post — Funky Furniture controversy article
- Press Left Turn Magazine — front and back cover
- Press Brutarian Quarterly Magazine #42
- Press “100 Jolts: Shockingly Short Stories”
- Press Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Resource Guide
- Media Exit Clov CD covers — painting on two CD covers by DC band Exit Clov
- Exhibition First exhibition in France — International Art Singulier festival, Roquevaire, Provence
- Exhibition Headliner artist — ArtView 2004, Carnegie Institution, Washington, DC. Two paintings from “31 Days in July…
- Exhibition “Anonymous,” Flashpoint Gallery, Washington, DC
- Media Lecture — “The Short Films of Sesow,” Indiana University Department of Communication and Culture, Underground…
- Press Laura Parsons, “the hook” — Charlottesville, VA
- Press DC Art News — Lenny Campello
- Press Washington City Paper — “Show & Tell”
- Press False Start — falsestart.org, “Matt Sesow Interview”
- Exhibition Art+Works+Wonders, 2122 P St
- Exhibition Open Studio — 1851 Columbia Road NW #603, Adams Morgan, Washington, DC

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