Art

11/22/2009

Bulletin Board: Nov. 22
Auditions

11/19/2009

Last Gallery Night for 2009 is tonight
Attention art fans: Gallery Night Providence wraps up its 2009 season tonight with free “art bus” service to more than 20 galleries and museums in the Providence area. Highlights include “Zugunruhe,” a new installation by the contemporary artist Rachel Berwick at Brown University’s Bell Gallery; an exhibit by the noted underwater photographer Greg Chalmers at the Chapel Gallery downtown; and new group shows at the Chabot Gallery on Federal Hill and the Firehouse 13 gallery in the West End.

11/16/2009

Maxwell Mays: 80th birthday exhibit shows R.I. from 'a seagull's eye'
Over the past half century, Maxwell Mays has probably sold more prints, paintings and drawings than any artist in Rhode Island history. But don't expect to hear him brag about it.

A sense of history and of humor
COVENTRY, R.I. -- Maxwell Mays, whose whimsically detailed paintings of Rhode Island's past grace countless living rooms, doctors' offices and banks in his native state, is a history buff and raconteur who jokes that he makes his living at the piano.

Arts: Remembering RISD’s Richard Merkin; Taylor Swift in Foxboro
Two of the former professor’s favorite movies will be screened, followed by toasts, testimonials and dinner

11/15/2009

Bulletin Board: Nov. 15
Auditions

11/12/2009

Art review: Eve Aschheim’s abstracts invite real life into them
Is abstract art ever completely abstract? And is it OK to read real-world references into abstract artworks, even when the artist who created them says otherwise?

11/08/2009

Bulletin Board: Nov. 8
Auditions

11/07/2009

Berlin Wall gets facelift
Restoration is erasing the ravages of 20 years of pollution, weather and time

11/05/2009

Modest artworks belie their intellectual heft
It’s no secret that many artworks begin life as drawings. Paintings emerge from sketches and doodles, sculptures start out as penciled-in shapes and volumes and even films and videos are mapped out on storyboards long before anyone ever picks up a camera. In that sense, drawings are to visual artists what dress rehearsals are to actors — a chance to work out the kinks and get things right.