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Same as he ever was

David Byrne on working with Brian Eno, the new music industry, and his time in Providence
Thirty-four years after forming the legendary band Talking Heads with fellow Rhode Island School of Design students Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz, David Byrne returns to the area to perform “The Songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno.”
By MICHAEL ATCHISON | November 26, 2008

Man and Wife

Harry Callahan’s photos of Eleanor at RISD
"I think I've photographed the same things all my life," Harry Callahan said in 1991. "Buildings and grasses and people walking." And, for a stretch running from about 1941 to 1963, that included his wife, Eleanor.
By GREG COOK | November 19, 2008

Exploring Providence's real underground

Photographer Peter Goldberg documents the subterranean world of the Combined Sewage Overflow project
Photographer Peter Goldberg documents the subterranean world of the Combined Sewage Overflow project
By | November 13, 2008

Radical chic

Shepard Fairey posters Harvard Square
“The gallery system relies on supply and demand, and I created a demand for my work by doing street art.”
By GREG COOK | October 31, 2008

Picaresque journey: 30 years in Rhode Island

By IAN DONNIS | October 23, 2008

Photos: RISD's Chace Center

Images from Rhode Island School of Design's new museum

By FLINT BORN | September 26, 2008

RISD redefined

With the dramatic new Chace Center, the art school reaches outward
Rhode Island School of Design’s new Chace Center is the physical embodiment of the 131-year-old institution’s effort to rebrand itself as a more open place.
By GREG COOK | September 25, 2008

Man and machine

John Maeda talks about technology — and his quest to understand RISD
Leave it to John Maeda, the Rhode Island School of Design’s new president, to invoke the long-term value of art at a time when global financial markets are gripped by uncertainty.
By IAN DONNIS | September 24, 2008

Grocer coming to Downcity; Arthouse talked up anew

City watch
After years of effort, Buff Chace’s Cornish Associates has succeeding in attracting a grocery store — one of the top-two needs regularly cited by residents — to downtown Providence.
By IAN DONNIS | August 20, 2008

A cop with an assitude

Watertown’s Clambake Animation pushes TV’s boundaries with a homicidal heinie
Mr. McGee comes by his name honestly. He is, quite simply, an ass.
By MIKE MILIARD | April 09, 2008

Thinking small

A local collective subverts with the tiny
The collective of artists spread out through the museum and helped the ICA’s staff — scrubbing the lobby, counting visitors, standing guard, cleaning the café.
By GREG COOK | April 07, 2008

Green local heroes

Ten people and organizations highlighting Rhode Island’s environmental vanguard
Decades after the birth of the modern environmental movement, the US and other nations are still struggling to come to terms with humanity’s impact on the planet.
By IAN DONNIS | November 07, 2007

Art retains its power to push our buttons

Action speaks!
When a French artist submitted a signed urinal to the Society of Independent Artists, some might think that this was just another battlefront in the culture wars.
By IAN DONNIS | October 17, 2007

Going underground

The hidden quality of the Providence art scene is a big part of what sets it apart
The project in which Michael Townsend and seven collaborators created a secret apartment at Providence Place began as an adventure in which four friends tried to live in the mall for a week.
By GREG COOK | October 10, 2007

New kids on the block

Four Walls Gallery focuses on developing professional artists
24-year-old Julie Kuceris decided her Rhode Island School of Design education was more useful elsewhere. .
By IAN PAIGE | August 15, 2007

Geek power

Techies and digital innovators are injecting fresh life into the Rhode Island economy
Like a lot of people, Soren Ryherd and Vida Jakabhazy were drawn to Providence by their fondness for the city.
By IAN DONNIS | July 18, 2007

Entourage

Mitt gets a posse
One thing we’ve learned from the Globe ’s seven-day package “The Making of Mitt Romney” is that the man takes pride in his Ward Cleaver coif.
By MIKE MILIARD | June 28, 2007

It’s not easy being green

Sustainable design is rising in popularity, but Rhode Island remains slow on the uptake
Seth Handy does not have a long pony tail that snakes down the back of his rumpled hemp shirt, nor does he wear Birkenstocks to work.
By MARISA ANGELL BROWN | June 20, 2007

Burning issues

Global warming is the new hot subject in the art world
“Human beings just can’t affect climate that much,” David Arnold remembers Bradford Washburn telling him in 2005.
By GREG COOK | June 20, 2007

Dreaming a better world

Cozzens and Oesch’s Magic City Repairs
In the back of Stairwell Gallery, a mini-metropolis of paper and cardboard has taken shape over the past week and a half.
By GREG COOK | June 05, 2007

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