The Wedding Cake House in Providence was acquired in 2017 by Dirt Palace Public Projects, and now is full of vibrant work from 150 artists.
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The Museum Trustee Behind a $130 Million Lawsuit to Keep ICE Detainees in Prison
UMB Bank is suing a city in Rhode Island for refusing to house ICE detainees at an affiliated detention center. The bank’s CEO, Mariner Kemper, is also a trustee of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Missouri.
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Two Artists Ask: “Can We Think Across Borders Like Plants Do?”
Responding to violence at the US-Mexico and Israel-Palestine borders, Jess X. Snow and Gavriel Cutipa-Zorn painted a two-story mural addressing the ways plants can traverse vast lands.
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A Silver Exhibition’s Classist Undertones
Despite the artistry on display in this Gorham Silver exhibition, I found it difficult to suppress a kernel of class hatred in looking at it.
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Apply for Rhode Island School of Design’s Global Summer Studies: Engaging Ideas and Practices Across Cultures
For summer 2019, RISD launches a set of studio and liberal arts courses in the Azores, Berlin, Denmark, Japan, South Africa, and at RISD’s site in Rome. Applications are due April 11.
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Artist Drops Massive Opioid Spoon at Entrance of Another Sackler-Owned Drug Manufacturer
The Sackler family founded Rhodes Pharma in 2007, just months after pleading guilty to criminal charges that their family company, Purdue Pharma, had mismarketed OxyContin.
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Rhode Island’s Newest Gallery Champions Artists With Disabilities
The term “Outsider Art,” coined in 1972 by writer Roger Cardinal, has plenty of critics.
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Monster In My Head
Ever wondered what your childhood nightmares would look like if they met your adult nightmares? Well, take a peek at Monster, the latest installation of Providence, Rhode Island’s giant, horror-themed comic book.
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RISD Goes Extra-Curricular: Black Sheep Projects
A recent art show, Black Sheep Projects, coordinated by two RISD masters students, Jason Huff and Derek Paul (DP) Boyle, seeks to help ameliorate the stress of graduation by giving the undergraduate population a chance to get some real world experience in what life is like as a practicing artist. Currently housed in a space on Eddy Street in the arts district of Providence, Black Sheep Projects is a recently formed alternative art exhibition. A 10-minute walk from the RISD campus, it sits nestled among the brick streets, apartment buildings, and trendy store fronts which populate this neighborhood in the mid-way point between Boston and New York.