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 …