[youtube]hN9rF737IyM[/youtube] The Brilliant Line: Following the Early Modern Engraver, 1480–1650 opened up at the RISD Museum last Friday. I haven’t seen it yet, but I did just spend the last half hour checking out the awesome interactive website that accompanies the exhibition. Curator Andrew Raftery explores the use of lines in engravings by folks like […]
Richard Merkin — painter, illustrator and professor emeritus at the Rhode Island School of Design — has died at the age of 70. Known as much for his insanely dapper appearance as for his art, a Merkin sighting during his long tenure here was always a cause for mention. Writer Tom Wolfe (no slouch in
These are the gals responsible for that gigantic mural going up at the speed of light on Cushing Street, hired by CVS as part of an all-round sprucing up. From left to right we have Christina Graham (RISD ’11) and RISD grads Annabeth Marks and Alison Kizu-Blair, who have joined to form a new business
All the news that’s fit to paint Tsunamis kill people in Bali. Car bombs kill people in Iraq. The Internet is killing newspapers. The major news networks report on these killings with state of the art sensationalism and hi-tech dehumanization. Rhode Island artist David Barnes paints this process and the result is benignly seductive. Starting
Come view new works by Hilary Merzbacher, recent graduate of the RISD Illustration Department and the latest to be LAUNCHed. (You can meet Hilary at a reception on Friday August 28th.) LAUNCH at the Gail Cahalan Gallery has been designed exclusively to bridge RISD senior students and recent graduates with the local community as an
Today’s your last chance to see the RISD Museum before it shuts down for a month. It’s also your last chance to see Carl Ostendarp’s colorful Pulled Up exhibit. I originally thought the show was just another way for RISD to be all like “Hey everybody, remember Talking Heads? They went here! Really world, please
Family Guy has just been nominated for an Emmy in the ‘Best Comedy’ category — the first animated series to be in this category since The Flintstones. (We’re just hopping right over The Simpsons I guess.) Congratulations to creator and RISD grad Seth MacFarlane who has really put Quahog on the map. (If I knew
Today is the final day of RISD’s Annual Graduate Thesis Exhibition featuring work from 14 art and design disciplines including ceramics, industrial design, glass and photography. (Reviewed by Bill Van Siclen in the ProJo) Artist Elizabeth Skadden sends out this invitation, … my final thesis work was a reconstruction of the [AS220 Mercantile] building …
Tonight is the famous RISD Fashion Show at the Veterans Memorial Auditorium downtown. The work of RISD’s apparel design students always runs from traditional (read: I could totally see me in that) to high concept (read: who the hell would wear that?) with students modeling the clothes for each other. It’s always fun and the
The longest line at Saturday’s RISD Student Art Sale was for the caricatures — or as the lady behind me was saying “Look, characters! I want to get my character done”. The talented artist is Ivy, a RISD sophomore, who worked pretty quickly (and will do parties and bar mitzvahs). Also a hit were the
Ah, the infamous RISD bike home test. This is how good students have to be just to get into RISD. Then they get even better and sell their stuff on Benefit Street… like today for instance. (This drawing seems to be by darkmagik347. Give me a real name and I’ll put it up. I like