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Seeing music

'The Sight of Sound' at Machines With Magnets
"The Sight of Sound" at Machines with Magnets focuses on the impetus behind much locally-made art: music.

By GREG COOK | March 30, 2009

Under construction

Jon Laustsen's surreal minimalist mutations
Jon Laustsen's sculptures are like a contractor's dreams rendered in miniature.

By GREG COOK | March 04, 2009

A Visual Buffet

A visual buffet sampling RISD's faculty; Laska and Kupferschmidt at Stairwell.
The RISD Museum offers work by more than 175 staffers in its "RISD Biennial Faculty Exhibition 2009."

By GREG COOK | February 25, 2009

Dyer's thing was watercolors and gouaches of romantic fairy tale country cottages, snowy mountain lakes, and ruins of old stone arches and doorways.
Back in 1928, a Providence Journal headline dubbed painter Hezekiah Anthony Dyer a "militant anti-Modernist." Modern art was just about showing off, he said.

By GREG COOK | February 10, 2009

Vandal-in-chief

Shepard Fairey bombs the ICA
Shepard Fairey and his show "Supply and Demand" arrive at the Institute of Contemporary Art like a guerrilla general emerging from the jungle after his forces have taken the capital.

By GREG COOK | February 10, 2009

White room

Annabel Daou's disorienting 'Knot'
The first striking thing about Annabel Daou's exhibit, "Knot," at Brown University's Bell Gallery (64 College Street, Providence, through March 8) is the room itself.

By GREG COOK | February 04, 2009

Slideshow: R. Crumb's Underground

R. Crumb at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, opening February 4.
Featuring work from R. Crumb over the last 40 years.

By R. CRUMB | February 03, 2009

Beauty for beauty's sake

Feminist art
For several years, Cristin Searles of Providence has been stitching together soft sculptures that catchily evoke natural forms.

By GREG COOK | January 28, 2009

Interview: Greil Marcus

Rock's critic-in-chief talks rock and roll photography
Greil Marcus on rock-and-roll photography

By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | January 21, 2009

Power rangers

Photographers roam the electric grid
Adam Ryder was fascinated, he said, by long-distance, high-tension power lines and their scruffy right-of-ways.

By GREG COOK | January 21, 2009

Enter the matrix

Digital art at Moses Brown; optical illusions at AS220
A number of artists have been making art inspired by video games and computer graphics in recent years.

By GREG COOK | January 13, 2009

White album

Duane Slick's minimalist meditations
The best of the work on view in "Duane Slick and Critical Distance," at Rhode Island College's Bannister Gallery (600 Mount Pleasant Avenue, Providence, through January 8), is what you might call painters' paintings.

By GREG COOK | December 29, 2008

Worth another look

Intriguing views of a warped world
In 2008, real estate and jobs dominated local art news.

By GREG COOK | December 23, 2008

Connected

"NetWorks 2008" at AS220, 5 Traverse, and the NAM
In 2004, AS220's StinkTank put out a paper titled "Compost and the Arts."

By GREG COOK | December 16, 2008

Inside looking out

Elizabeth King shares her mind's eye
Visiting Elizabeth King's "The Sizes of Things In the Mind's Eye" at Brown University's Bell Gallery (64 College Street, Providence, through December 21) is a bit like visiting Dr. Frankenstein's lab — all glass eyes, artificial limbs, and automatons.

By GREG COOK | December 03, 2008

Live through this

Printmakers consider sustainability
Sustainable living has, of course, long been a concern, but worries about global warming have pushed it to the forefront. And increasingly made it the subject of art.

By GREG COOK | November 25, 2008

Man and Wife

Harry Callahan’s photos of Eleanor at RISD
"I think I've photographed the same things all my life," Harry Callahan said in 1991. "Buildings and grasses and people walking." And, for a stretch running from about 1941 to 1963, that included his wife, Eleanor.

By GREG COOK | November 19, 2008

Exploring Providence's real underground

Photographer Peter Goldberg documents the subterranean world of the Combined Sewage Overflow project
Photographer Peter Goldberg documents the subterranean world of the Combined Sewage Overflow project

By | November 13, 2008

Life in Hell

Entang Wiharso and Chris Forgues's harrowing visions
Wiharso, who lives in North Kingstown, fills 5 Traverse with a harrowing dance of demons in black silhouettes and ruddy flesh (well, charcoal, acrylic, enamel, and spray paint).

By GREG COOK | November 12, 2008

Exposures

Photos from Yousuf Karsh, William Christenberry, and the PRC
In "Karsh 100: A Biography in Images," which is now up at the Museum of Fine Arts, his iconic shots of Winston Churchill, George Bernard Shaw, and Ernest Hemingway are defining portraits of the men in all their crusty manliness.

By GREG COOK | November 14, 2008