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‘Valentined’ showcases geek love at Craftland

These missives don't have the swooning, steamy, bodice-ripping passion of romance novel covers.
Heart-felt
By GREG COOK | February 10, 2012

Must-see music, comedy, and more

Welcome back! The holiday break has you reenergized and ready to hit the books, but first things first. Break out a fresh No.2 and pencil in some fun.
Where the fun is!
By CHRIS CONTI | January 27, 2012

‘Chicken Little’ and ‘Manchester Tracks’ at the RISD Museum

The star of New York painter Nancy Chunn's epic installation "Chicken Little and the Culture of Fear" at the RISD Museum (224 Benefit Street, Providence, through April 15) is the fabled fowl — you know, the one who mistakenly thought the sky was falling
Discomfort and joy
By GREG COOK | January 13, 2012

Short films take over SPACE

Having screened the first of this series back in June, it's good to see evidence that SPACE Gallery plans to show the whole "Project 35" collection.
On gallery walls
By NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | January 06, 2012

Exhibits worth buzzing about

After a couple of shaky years, 2011 saw the local gallery scene blossom again.
Vivid visions
By GREG COOK | December 23, 2011

Chinese bronzes from thousands of years ago at Bowdoin

Chinese bronzes are often felt, quite rightly, to fall within the purview of scholars and collectors who delight in detailed changes from one period or region to another.
Alive with the past
By KEN GREENLEAF | December 09, 2011

‘NetWorks 2011’ is good — but it could be better

In 2008, local art collector Joseph Chazan partnered with the Newport Art Museum and AS220 to present the first "NetWorks" project.
Incomplete picture
By GREG COOK | December 09, 2011

Slideshow: ''Say You Love Me'' at Harvard's Carpenter Center; ''Hungry for Death: Destroy All Monsters'' at BU Art Gallery

Through December 22, 2011
Through December 22, 2011
By PHOENIX STAFF | December 02, 2011

Brian Chippendale and Jungil Hong’s dazzling new work

Brian Chippendale and Jungil Hong were at the center of the gang of artists who pioneered the rascally psychedelic art that boiled out of Providence's screenprinting/postering/comic book/puppet show/wrestlemania/noise rock underground in the late 1990s a
A sense of wonder
By GREG COOK | December 02, 2011

Friday sees a one-day-only art installation

This week's Art Walk is replete with holiday shows, bazaars, and craft fairs.
No longer vacant
By NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | December 02, 2011

“Nostalgia Machines” at Brown’s Bell Gallery

Jonathan Schipper's Measuring Angst (2009) might be a complicated machine built to help you ponder whether your life would be better if you could take back the stupid thing you did last night.
Reconsidering the future
By GREG COOK | November 25, 2011

Rebecca Macri, Dan Talbot, and Betsey MacDonald at AS220

Some time back, Rebecca Macri embroidered a pillow with the rainbow bars of the old terrorism alert chart ("severe" to "low").
Contrasts and comparisons
By GREG COOK | November 18, 2011

Bisbee + Fensterstock work their black magic at Aucocisco

The similarities between Lauren Fensterstock and John Bisbee are manifold.
Darkness visible
By NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | November 18, 2011

Intricate works on paper by one of Maine’s best abstract artists

Geometric shapes like rectangles and circles have been the formal ingredients of some of the most sophisticated abstract art.
Complete in themselves
By BRITTA KONAU | October 28, 2011

Slideshow: ''Dance/Draw'' exhibit at the ICA

The Institute of Contemporary Art hosts the the "Dance/Draw" exhibit from October 7, 2011 through January 16, 2012.
The Institute of Contemporary Art | Through January 16, 2012
By PHOENIX STAFF | October 21, 2011

Ellen Driscoll’s ‘Distant Mirrors’; plus, ‘Palimpsestic’

A few weeks back, three artificial islands made of recycled plastic and dotted with little model buildings — houses, a watch tower, an oil refinery, the Tower of Babel — were floated down the Providence River and anchored just south of the Crawford Stre
Floating ideas
By GREG COOK | October 21, 2011

Xander Marro takes over SPACE’s new annex

From 1995 until its demolition in 2001, Fort Thunder was the core of Providence's artistic identity.
A wild imagination
By NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | October 21, 2011

Works by Andrew Moon Bain, Elisa D’Arrigo, Serena Perrone

In "Talking Leaves," Andrew Moon Bain's show at AS220's Project Space (93 Mathewson Street, Providence, through October 29), his painting and collage Triple Black depicts a red mermaid and black seahorses floating atop a tumultuous sea amidst old saili
Shape shifting and dreamy visions
By GREG COOK | October 14, 2011

Jan Piribek decodes and encodes landscapes at Mayo Street Arts

Sometimes it takes an act of art to care about something you otherwise wouldn't.
Facing history
By NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | October 14, 2011

Rose Contemporary's 'Abstraction' show is more than enough

Abstraction is the process of moving from the particular to the general, from the thing itself to an idea about the thing that can thus be considered or communicated. All art is, in this sense, an abstraction. The soup-can painting requires no spoon.
The thing itself
By KEN GREENLEAF | October 07, 2011

FirstWorks’ eighth annual “Pixilerations”

Rebecca Mushtare's StoryQuilt invites you to sit at a faux sewing machine and tell it a story, which the Mount Kisco, New York, artist's software converts into a virtual quilt that is projected on the wall above.
Balancing act: tech and art
By GREG COOK | September 30, 2011

Abstract artists look at craft

Abstraction is currently getting a lot of attention in Portland.
A show of hands
By BRITTA KONAU | September 30, 2011

New works at the PAC, 60 Orange Street, Bannister Gallery

"Outside the Lines: New Classics from Top Drawer Art Center" at the Providence Art Club (11 Thomas Street, through September 30) features 20 artists from Top Drawer's art programs in Warren for adults with developmental disabilities.
Around the town
By GREG COOK | September 23, 2011

Underground no more, Kostas Seremetis comes home

West Roxbury native Kostas Seremetis cut his teeth as an underground artist in Boston in the 1990s — his commissions included painting the walls of the Lansdowne Street punk club Axis, and creating movies for an unknown Boston band that went on to become
He's now worthy
By SCOTT FAYNER | September 23, 2011

Photos: Kostas Seremetis's ''Ready…Steady…Go!'' at the Fourth Wall Project

Kostas Seremetis's ''Ready…Steady…Go!'' exhibition is on display at the Fourth Wall Project from September 10 to October 23, 2011.
Fourth Wall Project | September 10–October 23, 2011
By ERIC ANTONIOU | September 23, 2011

Don Voisine’s careful placements at Icon

In his essays on interpretation in the 1970s, Frank Kermode assigned a couple of conditions to the apprehension of a text: carnal and spiritual.
Reading shapes
By KEN GREENLEAF | September 23, 2011

The docile docent

Museum-goers can be a handful.
Failure
By KARL STEVENS | September 16, 2011

Statewide exhibit series winds down; are photos next up?

The fall months of 2011 have much to share for contemporary art lovers.
Drawing conclusions
By NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | September 16, 2011

A British invasion and the local hall of fame

The art season follows the school year.
Autumn offerings
By GREG COOK | September 16, 2011

Brown’s “Building Expectation” showcases architectural visions

One of the curious things about the future, as Nathaniel Robert Walker observes, is that "nearly everyone can recognize the place where no one has been." It's all clean, efficient, gleaming metal and glass skyscrapers; pervasive digital technology; and
Back to the future
By GREG COOK | September 10, 2011

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