Anyone Know What This Is?
Driving around at work I saw this interesting paint job. The house is on a side street off Manton Ave. Is there anyone who can decode this? Is it real, or just an artistic statement? Either way, it’s cool. Reminds me of the Crayola House on the West End.
Before the Tsunami
Prophetic art from Masami Teraoka, created decades ago expresses the contradictions of living in a natural world we seem to be consuming and destroying. When you follow the link, scroll down to the Sushi series, and click to enlarge. Masami Teraoka is a Japanese-American artist whose work is elegant and provocative. He’s in a different [...]
You Can’t Take the Sky From Me
The Year of the Rabbit is off to a good start. Joss Wheeden’s ‘Firefly’, the only TV worth watching with the exception of some PBS documentaries and most episodes of ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ has emerged from the black hole of series cancellation… (EW.com) — Browncoats rejoice: “Firefly” is returning to basic cable — and [...]
Langston Hughes Poetry at RISD– Sunday, February 6
Sunday, February 06, 2011 16th Annual Langston Hughes Community Poetry Reading Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM Langston Hughes’s poems, dating from the Harlem Renaissance through the 1960s, continue to resonate today. These powerful, poignant and often amusing works are read aloud by members of the community and leaders of [...]
Beauty Survives
Kathy Hodge, at Art and Nature visits the newly opened Medieval collection at the RISD Museum, and encounters a messager in stone… The medieval gallery had been closed for a long time while they expanded the museum and just recently reopened, New and Improved. They even added subtle medieval-style music, which is nice to listen [...]
Good News for Inner City Art
It will be good to see the Black Rep space on Westminster St. open again… PROVIDENCE — A nonprofit arts group, led by well-known Rhode Island storyteller Len Cabral, plans to use the former Providence Black Repertory Company building at 276 Westminster St. for a café and performance space called the Westminster Roots Cafe. Cabral [...]
Rise of the Anti-Kinkade
Too late, far too late, for me to reach the pinnacle of glory as ‘Painter of Light’. That title’s already taken by Thomas Kinkade. Instead, I declare myself as the Anti-Kinkade, Nancy Green– Painter of Blight. I like blight better, anyway. It has poignance and complexity. The Washington Post reports that Thomas Kinkade is in [...]
Happy Birthday, Umberto Crenca
I took time off from a busy work weekend to celebrate Umberto Crenca’s 60th birthday at AS 220 with music by the Criss Cross Orchestra. That’s Obuamah Laud Addy at the drum and my friend Phil Edmunds of The Gnomes is playing pipes– it’s a kind of Afro-Irish mix. There’s a show up, art from [...]
A Good Week for Public Art
URI discovered a hidden treasure of Works Progress Administration murals hidden behind some drywall and the Downtown has a building-size tribute to the Industrial National building by Shepard Fairey. ProJo reporter Kathy DeVault watched the painting process from start to finish and reports about it here… Johan Bjurman opens his e-mail to find a digital [...]
Studying Harvey Pekar
Via Buzzflash here’s a link to The Rag Blog where Rhode Island’s own Professor Paul Buhle reviews the life and work of Harvey Pekar as compared to Tuli Kupferberg of The Fugs. Tuli Kupferberg lived long enough to make the scene with the Beatniks and with YouTube, which I would call an illustrious career. If [...]
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