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Great pretenders

Photographic self-examination at the Bell Gallery
“Self and Others,” the new group show at Brown University’s Bell Gallery, reminds me of a definition I recently read: growing up is learning how to pretend to be normal.

By: GREG COOK | June 10, 2008

Fringe festival

Galleries off the beaten path
Off the beaten path, the fringes of Boston's gallery scene are seeing new development, and even expansion.

By: GREG COOK | June 10, 2008

Arts slashed at the University of Rhode Island

Shockwaves hit the arts community
On Tuesday, the University of Rhode Island informed Judith Tolnick Champa, who runs the URI Fine Arts Center Galleries, and Roxana Tourigny, who runs the school’s “Great Performances” program, that they will be laid off, effective July 4, and that the galleries and performance program will close.

By: GREG COOK | June 06, 2008

Greatest hits

RISD shows off its new and renovated galleries
The RISD Museum continues its top to bottom renovation and expansion.

By: GREG COOK | June 04, 2008

The illusionist

Anish Kapoor at the ICA
Kapoor’s work looks like nothing in reproduction; you have to experience it in person to get it.

By: GREG COOK | June 06, 2008

Toy stories

In the galleries, artists keep their distance
Tokyo photographer Noaki Honjo turns Japanese metropolises into adorable li’l things.

By: GREG COOK | May 28, 2008

State of the art

RISD grads share their visions
RISD’s annual “Graduate Thesis Exhibition” could be just the place to glimpse the future of art, as predicted by the school that U.S. News & World Report recently said has the best master of fine arts program in the country.

By: GREG COOK | May 28, 2008

Balls

Interview: Stefan Sagmeister goes the limit
Design geeks bow before the 45-year-old Austrian-born, New York–based designer’s witty topographical experiments and bad-ass stunts.

By: GREG COOK | June 02, 2008

Creative compost

Brian Chippendale’s masterful Human Mold
It's a vision of feral characters wandering a world jerry-rigged from recycled scraps of a collapsed plastic mass-produced disposable civilization.

By: GREG COOK | May 20, 2008

Town and country

Looking at birds and buildings
In “Construction Details” at AS220’s Project Space, artists Stephen Brownell and Jean Cozzens meditate on a subject that has haunted Providence over the past decade.

By: GREG COOK | May 13, 2008

Flash without fire

Is New England better than the DeCordova’s Annual Exhibition?
The aim of the DeCordova Museum’s Annual Exhibition is to round up “some of the most interesting and visually eloquent” New England artists.

By: GREG COOK | May 13, 2008

Flashback

The high voltage work of Corita Kent
Sister Corita Kent was something of a celebrity.

By: GREG COOK | May 07, 2008

Fact and fantasy

Walid Raad’s installations seek the “truth”
Walid Raad’s installation feels like a Borgesian detective story in which truth is elusive, and cities themselves shiver with post-traumatic stress disorder.

By: GREG COOK | April 30, 2008

Majestic rot

Compelling new work by Neal T. Walsh and William Schaff
Providence artist Neal Walsh’s great new abstract paintings bring to mind peeling paint, rust, and cracking plaster in old mills or houses, maybe the wall in the hall of an apartment building.

By: GREG COOK | April 15, 2008

Distinctive design

Malcolm Grear at RIC; plus, Roger Mayer’s ‘Soundless’
In 1969, Malcolm Grear Designers was hired by New York’s Guggenheim Museum to develop a new graphic identity for the institution.

By: GREG COOK | April 08, 2008

Thinking small

A local collective subverts with the tiny
The collective of artists spread out through the museum and helped the ICA’s staff — scrubbing the lobby, counting visitors, standing guard, cleaning the café.

By: GREG COOK | April 07, 2008

Shuffle mode

Shake-ups on the gallery scene
The news of the Allston Skirt Gallery closing turned out to be the first sign of a major gallery shake-up involving a number of Boston’s most prestigious venues.

By: GREG COOK | April 01, 2008

Ugly beauty

The RISD Museum showcases ‘Stryrofoam’
There is something about foamed polystyrene — better known by its trademark name, Styrofoam — that seems to embody the space-age future.

By: GREG COOK | March 25, 2008

Boston gallery shake-up

Art on the move
Three of Boston's most important galleries are about to make major changes, and rumors exist that several others may soon move or close —signaling a major upheaval in the city's art scene.

By: GREG COOK | March 26, 2008

Bad-boy cool

‘Street Level’ at the ICA, plus Ranjani Shettar and David Claerbout
“People look at an oil painting and admire the use of brushstrokes to convey meaning. People look at a graffiti painting and admire the use of a drainpipe to gain access.”

By: GREG COOK | March 24, 2008

‘Beings’ there

New exhits at the Stairwell, Bannister, and URI galleries
In the front window of Stairwell Gallery sit Leif Goldberg’s life-sized coyote-man marionette and some of Erin Rosenthal’s Garbage Dancers .

By: GREG COOK | March 19, 2008

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