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05/18/2008

Art looted by the Nazis is on display in Connecticut
Jacques Goudstikker was the Netherlands’ biggest art dealer in the 1930s, influencing the tastes of collectors and museums while entertaining lavishly in his country home and castle. In 1940, he hastily left it all behind — including about 1,400 works of prized art.

Exhibit shows Esquire’s iconic covers from the turbulent ’60s
NEW YORK — Muhammad Ali, shirtless in white satin boxing shorts and pierced with six arrows, poses as St. Sebastian, a martyr to his faith. The April 1968 Esquire magazine cover was one of the most iconic images of the decade, tying together the incendiary issues of the Vietnam War, race and religion.

05/15/2008

Gordon Peers weaves many threads into his work
In music, a perfect note-for-note recital is usually enough to earn a performer a standing ovation. In art, on the other hand, even a passing reference to another artist’s work — A drip! A cube! A Campbell’s soup can! What an outrage! — is often met with derision.

Gallery Night is tonight
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05/14/2008

A titan of American art
Robert Rauschenberg, the irrepressibly prolific American artist who time and again reshaped art in the 20th century, died at his home on Captiva Island, Fla., Monday night. He was 82.

05/12/2008

1996 Rauschenberg interview: Bad boy of the art world is still making waves
In 1996, Providence Journal Arts Writer Bill Van Siclen sat down with Robert Rauschenberg. Here is that interview:

05/11/2008

Creativity proves recession-proof as RISD designers cut loose
Given the sputtering state of the economy, you might expect the young designers in Rhode Island School of Design’s annual spring fashion show to hold back, play it safe and cater to consumers looking for practicality over pizzazz.

05/08/2008

Art: Immigrant-themed exhibits straddle the border of art and politics
Artists are, almost by definition, cultural and intellectual migrants. They cross boundaries, break down barriers and slip back and forth across borders — all without asking anyone’s permission.

05/04/2008

YES: Quirky art, and exhibits with a purpose
The cutest little building in Warren just became home to a sweet new art gallery named YES, and it already looks like a match made in heaven. Leigh Medeiros took up residence earlier this year in the Water Street building that had once been the studio of illustrator/author David Macaulay, and last month she held her opening reception. The building, which dates to 1883, has rows of eye-catching arched windows on two floors and a roof that slopes back steeply, making the front look like a façade on a stage-set.

05/01/2008

A hybrid history of terrorist-torn Beirut
Brown University’s David Winton Bell Gallery has a well-deserved reputation as one of the state’s top showcases for cutting-edge visual art. Yet the first thing you notice as you enter “We Can Make Rain But No One Came To Ask,” a new multimedia installation by the Lebanese artist Walid Raad, isn’t a sight but a sound — specifically, the sound of waves breaking on a beach.

04/27/2008

At RISD, the end of an era
PROVIDENCE Two years ago, Roger Mandle got a telephone call that literally changed his life.