If you’ve got hours and hours of free time, I suggest you turn your browsers over to the UBU film and video archive, which contains such gems as Bunuel’s Un Chien Andalou, Agnes Varda’s Black Panthers - Huey!, Guy Debord’s Refutation of All Judgments, The Ten Commandments of Gilbert and George, and David Wojnarowicz and Tommy Turner’s Where Evil Dwells, among many, many, many other films by the likes of Rene Clair, Yoko Ono, Peter Greenaway, Samuel Beckett, Banksy, and about a million other fancy artypantses.  Sure, a lot of these are on Youtube, too, but the quality here’s a hell of a lot better and you don’t have to deal with compulsively looking at comments that say things like “ummm that was so weird OMG like what happened this is SO gay LOL.”

If you don’t have hour and hours of free time, look away, look away!

[via Jockohomo]

A special night at  at Poly-Phonics
featuring…

Tem Blessed & Busted Fro
Chachi Carvahlo, Riders Against the Storm,
Durdie Furby, First Be, Peter Arteaga and more…

March 3rd, 2008
Providence Black Rep
276 Westminister Street
9 pm, $7.00

The folks over at the Partnership for Creative Industrial Space are psyched about the hearing on their Ordinance tomorrow:

The Industrial Commercial Buildings District (ICBD) Tenant Relocation Ordinance is scheduled for Public Hearing Monday, March 3, 2008 at 6:00 pm in Providence City Hall.

This ordinance - a call to developers of rehabilitation projects to recognize the hardship of tenant displacement and the negative impact on the local community and economy - will enact a policy within the ICBD where commercial tenants can receive a financial stipend and at least 90 days notice of termination regardless of the terms of a lease.

Drawn & Quarterly artist and New Yorker contributor Adrian Tomine will offer a presentation of his cartooning career, in the RISD Auditorium on Friday, February 29 at 7pm. A book signing of his latest graphic novel Shortcomings will immediately follow. Shortcomings will be on sale in the Auditorium lobby prior to the presentation.

This event is free and open to the public, and is sponsored jointly by RISD’s Departments of Illustration and Continuing Education.

See Adrian’s work on the Drawn & Quarterly website.

Well! Classes for February filled up so fast I didn’t really have time to post the schedule, but March is well on it’s way and there’s still room in most of the classes!! I’m only going to post the classes that have space left, but you can see what you’re missing out on in the calendar. Also, there is now a $10 general shop materials fee included in the cost of the classes. Regardless of the fee, some outside supplies may be required. Our official site is here. Myspace here.

Are you ready? Onward, friends! (more…)

The Rhode Island State Council on the Arts invites you to attend the RISCA Fellowship Exhibition Writers Night on Friday, Feb 15, from 6:30-8:00pm at Machines With Magnets Gallery in Pawtucket.

The evening will include readings by Poetry Fellowship Award Winner Nehassiaiu DeGannes, Fiction Fellowship Award Winner Brian Sousa, Fiction Fellowship Merit Award Winner Bruce Reilly. This year the Writers Night will also feature music by Folk Arts Fellowship Merit Award Winner Jose Fernandes.

Coffee & Cookies generously donated by Kafe Lila. Come for the readings and enjoy the artwork of the RISCA Fellowship Exhibition!

Free and open to the public.

A cabaret-style evening of performance art created by people who work in the sex industry, to dispel the myth that they are anything short of artists, innovaters and geniuses! Performances range from music to burlesque to spoken word and everything in between. This is a nationally acclaimed show featuring worldclass performances- don’t miss it!

Sex Workers’ Art Show
Sunday February 17th
RISD Auditorium, 7PM
$5 with RISD/Brown ID
$7 general public

Two-thirds of the Daily Dose used to live in the heck-hole at right. Best of times and worst of times and all that, leaving us with great fondness and resentment of the tape-art that adorned our walls and ceilings and floors and sometimes bodies.

We’re happier with the medium now, for the apartment’s tortuous demise — and psyched to check out the Tape Art Artaquarium, going down at the 5 Traverse Gallery for the next few weeks, and described thusly:

Utilizing a carefully selected low-adhesive Drawing Tape, we practice and teach a method to create temporary, large-scale murals and installations designed to interact considerately with both viewer and environment. The literal and figurative flexibility of our Drawing Tape allows for a fantastic range of possibility in both the act and artwork. Tape Art demonstrates a dynamic, collaborative process that invigorates not only the drawn-on space, but the viewer’s perception of that space’s possibilities.

There are photos and a live stream online, as the artists (who may or may not have once resided in Providence Place Mall) live and work at the gallery.

join us TODAY january 26th, from 5pm-9pm at the AS220 Community Print Shop for our POST HOLIDAY CRAFT PARTY PARTY REDUX (a wholesome crafty get-together).

Make some post-holiday presents and cards or tigers or whatever using pom-poms and glitter and pipe cleaner ’cause you haven’t since shortly after you were a fetus!!! “F” ART LETS GET CRAFTY!!!!!!!!!!! BYOB and BYOS (bring your own supplies!). We will provide AWESOME food and drink! AND we have an IPOD!!! Also, it ENDS AT NINE so you can enjoy your regularly scheduled presumably less-than wholesome Saturday night!

FYI, AS220 Community Print Shop is located at 95 Mathewson St. #210 in sunny downtown Providence, Rhode Island! Buzz #210 and come up to the 2nd fl, first star on your right and straight on til morning! For more info on the print shop, call Morgan (401.831.9327 x 112), email Morgan (morgan@as220.org), visit the myspace or the official website, or stop by for a quick peek!

From the Lots Of Noise listings, this baffling-yet-awesome sounding show at the Stairwell Gallery, their description in full:

Join us for an evening of far-reaching, 3D mind music from the worm pit to the electric chair. Math Balance Volumes comes all the way from the UK (Chocolate Monk men) and Weyes Bluhd from Philadelphia. The local action on here will be equally blinding in the tradition of white hot explosions. Come early for a free screening of the cult classic film, “Street Trash”. Then stay for the live music

Sold! 7pm, $5

Throw a better pool party!!!! We could’ve had a more fun time at Mirabar on any random Tuesday night. In fact, we did — this week.

And is music too much to ask for? Even some ABBA would’ve sufficed — certainly better than the argon buzz of the GTECH logo that loomed over the ‘festivities.’

BAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Max keeps tearing it up, and is now a published poet. Too bad we don’t care much for poetry, or Little Compton.

This is out of a Steel Yard press release that I should’ve posted a few days ago:

The Steel Yard’s Olneyville Trash Cans find a Home

The Steel Yard announced today that artist Lu Heintz’s sculptural trash cans will be installed in Olneyville, the neighborhood for which they were initially intended.

The industrial arts-focused non-profit spent many months negotiating a new location for the cans after the original clients were unwilling to accept the cans due to differences between the design concept they approved and the final product. Public input helped the Steel Yard create a short list of possible locations that were considered based on criteria including public accessibility and the potential for stewardship….

The cans will be installed on Aleppo Street, a road that runs between Riverside Park, a reclaimed brownfield, and Riverside Townhomes affordable housing for Olneyville residents.

I finally made it by for last month’s MF. It was okay — I think I’ll give it another go this week, but it was a bit — how to say this tactfully… stuffier than I’d hoped for.

Music Friday

6:15pm
The second Friday of every month the Museum’s Main Gallery transforms into a funky lounge for an after-work alternative that features cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, art and music. Socialize with old friends and meet new ones. Enjoy special signature cocktails and door prizes. Museum members: $5; non-members: $8. Age 21 and over. PWCVB members and RISD|CE students receive the Museum member rate.

Warm up to the sounds of Superchief Trio, featuring the two-fisted piano of Keith Munslow, the red-hot trombone of Pam Murray, and the frenzied percussion of Johnny Cote as they sing and play a mixture of original music and classic Swing/New Orleans R&B/Boogie Woogie. This band was the winner of Providence Phoenix’s Best Local Jazz Act in 2005.

Stolen from Matt:

Rhode Island hip-hop artist Chachi Carvalho will be performing live on BET’s 106 & Park this Wednesday at 6:00pm. Watch and vote!!

Chachi was recently voted one of the “ Top 51 MYSPACE RAPPERS” of 2007 by VIBE MAGAZINE. You can regularly check him out emceeing the open mic sessions on Monday nights at the Black Rep.

Dale Chihuly, he of the crazy glass sculptures, will be opening up the new RISD Museum in September.

Renowned artist Dale Chihuly [RISD MFA ’68, Ceramics] will create a special site-specific installation as the inaugural exhibition for the new special exhibition gallery in the Chace Center. Chihuly at RISD will be complemented by an exhibition of work from other glass artists who were students during or after Chihuly’s time at RISD.

I’m pretty sure that his nearest-by large-scale piece is at Mohegan Sun.