Following an open reception from 6 to 8, featuring the work of artists Ricky Vespia, Mike Kelly, Lizz Freeman and JRT MCPE, musical mind-renovators Badman and Mahi Mahi, along with Adiel Azure’s Dream Indigo Orchestra rock the tiny Dead Cat Gallery into the wee ones. Dead Cat Gallery, 669 Elmwood Ave, Prov. Reception 6-8, $10 […]
HEY FRIENDS!!! the print shop class/event schedule for NOVEMBER is finally ready! HERE IT IS: Open House!!! – MONDAY NOV.5th, 6pm – FREE Any and all interested in learning a bit about the shop and how it works, come to the FREE shop open house! We walk you through the shop and show off our
Watch out! AS220’s community print shop is now open for the public to use! The print shop, located at 95 Mathewson Street #210 downtown in the Dreyfus Building offers affordable introductory classes is many forms of printmaking; including but not limited to: silkscreen, letterpress, intaglio, monoprinting and relief printing! People of all ages are encouraged
New works on and of paper by Andrew Oesch + Meredith Younger at Ada Books 330 Dean St. (at Westminster) Opening Reception Thursday Oct. 25th, 5pm – 7pm Snacks soda and awkward conversing guaranteed. Exhibition runs through ’til sometime in late November
Head on over to the Hi-Hat tomorrow night, if you want to make doodles of flamboyant semi-clothed dancers: When many artists think “life drawing”, they think of sterile rooms, bad lighting, & bored, silent models revealing little personality… well grab your pencil, baby, Dr. Sketchy’s has arrived in Providence ready to change all that… Dr. Sketchy’s
I’m pissed that I gorged myself and got too stuffed the night of the Project Digs 4 opening. At least the art is still up for one more day, though I’m sad I missed the sweaty grundle mosh pit of the first one. Dropped ceilings and 95 degrees means I would have probably passed out
You just can’t fuck with a title like Gay Zombie. I have to give it up for the Rhode Island International Film Festival. Their predilection for screening avant-queer-foreign and classic cinema is a b-movie lover’s dream. Hell yeah I’ll be there for the premiere of a ghost story about an apartment haunted by a drunk
Take heed, as we keep hearing that Providence is the new Lower East Side of the 1980s, plus 20 years and minus some increment of heroin. After the Geeks, and off of Fort Thunder: Cool French documentary with screenings in Seattle, Berlin DE, Lausanne CH, Sidney AU, Strasbourg FR, San Francisco… … and Providence AS220,
Come wish Matt and Brooke a happy life together, at AS220 on Sunday: Hey everybody: Matt Obert and Brooke Erin Goldstein are getting married, and you’re invited to their engagement announcement party! If you want to congratulate us in person, come to “The Engagement Show” at AS220 on Sunday, October 14. Wow, that is soon!
Lots of goings-on. Leaving most of the concert posts to Eric, here’s some stuff that falls into the category “other”: The Athenaeum’s salon series has started up for the fall: Fri, 10/12, 5 – 7pm: SALON – Providence String Quartet violinist Jesse Holstein on PSQ’s spring series at the Athenaeum. Music Friday at the RISD
The infamous Olneyville garbage cans are now on display at the Dirt Palace. The Steelyard has a page up explaining their take on the situation, and a place to leave comments about the way they’ve handled the controversy. In late 2006, the Steel Yard’s Urban Furniture program (one of a kind, custom- produced street amenities
Has anybody else noticed that our local craft school’s museum is cribbing the party-as-bait model popularized most recently by MOMA and San Francisco’s Yerba Buena? The Phoenix has been awash with a graphtastic ad for the generic-sounding “Music Friday” for a couple of weeks. The full-page four-color depicts posterized 20-somethings in leggings and tunics swilling
Nick Cave, of art fame, brings playful wearables to transitioning RISD museum Read More »
On the first Sunday of every month AS220 presents the Empire Revue. Hosted by Keith Munslow, the Revue is a vaudville style mixup of music, sketch comedy, burlesque and improv. Tonight will feature preformances by Superchief Trio and the “comedy mayhem” of The Sparkling Beatniks. Read a little more about it on the Empire Revue’s
Local 121 and Scotty Duhamel are kicking off their new film series this week, with a showing of Kiss Me Deadly. October 10th Kiss Me Deadly (1955). Director Robert Aldrich kicks this 1950’s noir classic into total vroom-vroom overdrive in this brutally streamlined version of a Mickey Spillane/Mike Hammer book, with deadpan hunk-of-beef Ralph
At Firehouse 13. Opening reception tomorrow: Opening Reception Friday 10/5, 6-10 pm “One Morning In Haditha” is Russ Smith’s powerful new multi-media anti-war installation and performance piece examining in detail the November 19, 2005 massacre of twenty-four Iraqi civilians by U.S. Marines in the city of Haditha. The gallery is being transformed as I type.
From Jared Paul: BIGGEST POETRY SHOW OF THE SEASON THIS THURSDAY AT AS220!! Nationally acclaimed visual artist, one AS220’s original manifesto Architects, and long time Artistic Director, Umberto Crenca will perform live spoken word and music with his band Gillen Street THIS Thursday, October 4th at AS220!! Bert wears many hat’s and many coats in