AMAZING APPARITION Georges Seurat’s At
the Gaîte Rochechouart (Café-concert). |
Radeke favored works revealing the artist’s process, like Matisse’s streamlined sketch of naked ladies. Danforth preferred showcase pieces like a terrific Van Gogh drawing of a flowery field running off to trees and a village. Its accumulation of pen dots and dashes reminds how much of his style was driven by transposing the techniques of drawing into painting. Danforth also contributed an amazing Georges Seurat drawing of woman singing on stage and an orchestra in a pit at the foreground. Though just black crayon accented by white paint, it feels like an apparition.
The exhibition “RISD and Photography,” on view through October 26, emphasizes RISD’s leadership in acknowledging the medium as a fine art with a sampling of works by the school’s twin stars — Harry Callahan, who arrived at the college in 1961, and Aaron Siskind, who joined him in 1971, as well as photographs by graduates and current faculty. A two-video exhibition by Mika Tajima (though October 12) includes Broken Plaid (2003), which shows geometric lines rolling around on screen and then escaping into the gallery itself.
Before you leave, check out the new bathrooms. The wallpaper — malachite pattern for guys, surreal ladies’ heads for gals — by the late Italian designer Piero Fornasetti is excellent.
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On August 3 it was announced by the Rhode Island School of Design that Hope Alswang had resigned as the director of the RISD Museum. Those who have followed the coverage of this story may be somewhat confused by the revelation that absolutely everyone acknowledged that Alswang was a superlative museum director and that absolutely no one involved in the arts scene at RISD or in the state of Vo Dilun thinks that she voluntarily "resigned." It was said that she loved the job, and the vague announcement that Alswang left to "pursue other opportunities" sounds as suspicious as elected officials dropping out of election campaigns to "spend more time with their families."
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You could be forgiven if you sometimes thought that corporations are the root of what's wrong with the United States.
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Children’s book illustrators have a pair of challenges.
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"Trash" at AS220's Project Space (93 Mathewson Street, Providence, through January 29) focuses on our love-hate relationship with garbage
- Sizing things up
Back in the day — and by that I mean the 15th century — printing on paper was in its infancy in Europe, since the process of papermaking had just made its way there from China.
- Worth seeing
Three exhibitions will catch your attention at the RISD Museum.
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