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The RISD Museum showcases ‘Stryrofoam’

By GREG COOK | March 25, 2008

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[ 02/13 ] "Aphrodite and the Gods of Love" @ Museum of Fine Arts

[ 02/13 ] "Processes and Dreams" @ Panopticon Gallery

[ 02/13 ] "Artists' Books: Books by Artists" @ Boston Athenæum

ARTICLES BY GREG COOK

‘VALENTINED’ SHOWCASES GEEK LOVE AT CRAFTLAND | February 08, 2012
These missives don't have the swooning, steamy, bodice-ripping passion of romance novel covers.

‘TAOIST GODS’ AND ‘IMMORTALS’ AT BROWN AND RISD | January 31, 2012
As China marked the beginning of the Year of the Dragon with lion and dragon dances and fireworks last week, Brown University's Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology was debuting "Taoist Gods from China: Ceremonial Paintings from the Mien".

THE DECORDOVA BIENNIAL ROOTS FOR THE HOME TEAM | January 31, 2012
"Contemporary and Boston, Opposites No Longer," a New York Times headline announced in October. It was another alert that $1 billion invested in expanding and endowing local museums over the past decade is paying off in a newly vigorous Boston contemporary art scene.

MYODA AND PENDER IN ‘ILLUMINATIONS’ AT CHAZAN GALLERY | January 24, 2012
Paul Myoda's kinetic sculptures are beautiful and unsettling.

BEN BLANC’S INTRIGUING ‘THE EXCHANGE’ AT AS220 | January 17, 2012
Two hundred black wood sculptures, resembling abstracted chunks of coal from some old video game, are lined up on a shelf running around the room in Ben Blanc's installation "The Exchange" at AS220's Project Space (93 Mathewson Street, Providence, through January 28).

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CAN THE CHARLES RIVER ESPLANADE BE TRANSFORMED INTO THE WORLD'S BEST PARK?
What if — in place of the current three-story Museum of Science parking garage overlooking the Charles River — there loomed a giant Ferris wheel, on the order of the London Eye?

VAN HALEN | A DIFFERENT KIND OF TRUTH
Who would've thought Eddie Van Halen would still be innovative in his late 50s?

AN INTIMATE GUIDE TO DINING IN — AND EATING OUT — THIS VALENTINE'S DAY
Food and sex have long been intimate bedfellows. What's the endgame of a dinner date but the prospect of the coital desserts waiting at home?

VALENTINE'S DAY FOR THE FRUGAL AND SAVVY DINER
On the Cheap thinks you should take your honey out to a fabulous dinner in February. But fine dining on Valentine's Day, with its overpriced prix fixes, cheap Champagne, and harried servers is a rookie choice, like clubbing on New Year's Eve.

REVIEW: 69°S.: THE SHACKLETON PROJECT
“Men wanted for hazardous journey, small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful, honor and recognition in case of success.”