Gallery Openings

Photo Lottery Saturday

[youtube]BrtaMTYBU-A[/youtube] AS220’s biennial Photo Lottery is taking place this Saturday, and there’s still time to get tickets through their website.  For just $100 you can win one of 150 photos donated by 150 photographers, including heavyweights like Mona Kuhn, Henry Horenstein, and Jock Sturges, whose 40X50 print will probably be the biggest deal of the […]

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Support Your Local (Possibly Starving) Artists

The Downcity Sidewalk Sale (see below) continues today. Check out the temporary art show presented by the FAM collaborative in the former Butterfield’s (now…. Butter).  There may or may not be an opening artists’ reception this afternoon, but the show is up and already open so just go in and look around. Work by Andrew

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Not Your Grandparents’ Road Signs…

Local sculptor and Steelyarder Nate Nadeau’s solo show opens Thursday night at 28 Wolcott. Giving the whimsy of Art Deco road sign art a modern ironic iconic spin, the work demonstrates yet another example of the vibrant arts scene blooming on the west side. From the release: Time of the Signs will feature Nadeau’s original

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Yes Darling, But Is It Art?

[youtube]IUEHgDQ-NVw[/youtube] Three art happenings tonight: i. Jonathan Bonner’s sculpture and Scott Lapham’s often eerie photography at 5 Traverse. (5 Traverse St, 6-8 pm) ii. De/Construct II:  Twenty site-specific architectural installations on the seventh floor of some place in the Jewelry District.  This one has the added bonus of a Narragansett Creamery sponsorship, which I think

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Yeah, We Don’t Know What This Is Either

Guess you’ll just have to go to Stairwell and check out the new sound and light ‘installation for the dark’ created by Mudboy (Raphael Lyon), Peter Blasser, and Michael Hernandez-Stern. (Gallery hours: Thursday 4pm to 9pm; Friday – Sunday 11:30am to 4pm; show runs through April 26th) Opening Sunday, 6pm to 9pm with café intelligensia,

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Free To-Dos To-night

I’m wicked frazzled right now, but before I head out for a (hopefully) computer-free weekend, I just wanted to let you all know about two free happenings this evening: 1. At the Athenaeum (251 Benefit St): Readings from the newly published anthology, Wild Dreams: the Best of Italian American, with editor-in-chief Carol Bonomo (Ahearn) Albright

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Tonight: One Night Stand

Tonight, 5 Traverse presents One Night Stand, a chance for eight artists to get a gallery show lasting approximately two hours. Featured artists include Andrew Sloan, Lucky Leone, Natasha Maria Brooks-Sperduti,* and Magaly Ponce. The fun starts at six, although if you’re familiar with 5 Traverse (openings you might want to get there early, since

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Sounds Like An Episode Of ‘Lost’

Looks like a map of Pawtucket.  KNOT, an installation by Lebanese artist Annabel Daou, opens tonight at the Bell Gallery starting with an artist’s talk and reception. According to Brown Media Relations; The project is a collaboration between the artist and the writer David Markus, in which 12 words chosen by Markus — aporia, sacrifice,

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