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Providence French Film Festival 2012

Cable Car Cinema

Homecoming

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"Cocktail Culture"

Signed limited edition prints by artist Kim DeMarco, are available at RISD|WORKS.

The prints are inspired by the current exhibition "Cocktail Culture", at Museum of Art - Rhode Island School of Design, through July 31, 2011.

'Drawing with Code'

Drawing with Code brings together a selection of computer-generated art by the form's earliest and most important practitioners from the 1950s to today. The Providence-based collection of Anne and Michael Spalter is one of the largest and most important of its kind in the U.S. and shines a new light onto a darkened corner of the art historical record.

In our current digital environment when just about everyone holds the processing power of a full computer in their pocket, it is difficult to remember a time when computer technology was not involved in every aspect of our lives. In the arts—visual, cinematic, musical, dance, and theater—the computer has become not only an accepted, but in many cases, an intrinsic tool for artistic expression. The artists featured in Drawing with Code emerged in the early computer-era when the technology was rudimentary by current standards and its capabilities rarely extended beyond the world of computation. Merging their interests in art and coding, these practitioners came to be known as "Algorists," artists who employed original algorithms to create images.

Strike a Pose

The RISD Museum Showcases the Human Figure in Show About the Use of the Artist’s Model Through Time in an exhibition Changing Poses: The Artist’s Model, going on now through June 5, 2011.

Since ancient times, models have been an essential tool for all artists depicting the human figure.

The exhibition at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art offers a fascinating exhibition on the role of the artist’s model, demonstrating the range of bodies that have fueled artistic creativity from the Renaissance to the present. The exhibition showcases more than 50 works from the RISD Museum’s esteemed collection of prints, drawings, and photographs, including several recent acquisitions never before on view.

Changing Poses shows that the working relationships between artists and models are continually evolving while also responding to the past. At various circumstances, an artist’s model could be female or male, amateur or professional, anonymous or intimately known, and of any age, body type, ethnicity, or class. Visitors will find pieces by Rembrandt, Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent, Pablo Picasso, and Andy Warhol, as well as lesser-known figures.

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'The Woodsmans'

THE WOODMANS is largely about self-expression, about the artist's desire to tell us something, but do we always know what it is the artist is trying to say to us? This question comes to mind while considering the life of photographer Francesca Woodman.

Francesca grew up in a creative household -- her mother Betty Woodman worked in ceramics, her father George Woodman was a painter, and her brother Charlie Woodman became a video artist. From an early age, Francesca was taught about theimportance and value of art, and she displayed a precocious gift as a photographer.In 1975, at the age of 17, Francesca began creating remarkable and unusual images, often featuring nude women, and after studying in Italy and at the Rhode Island School of Design she seemed on the verge of a long and distinguished career until she committed suicide in early 1981, just days before the opening of the first major exhibition of her work.

Filmmaker C. Scott Willis offers a moving portrait of an unusual family and how Francesca's family recognized her genius but not the demons that haunted her in the documentary The Woodmans.

Happy New Year

Watching the Ball Drop

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow...

 Forecasters issued a blizzard warning for New York City for Sunday and Monday, with a forecast of 11 to 16 inches of snow and strong winds that will reduce visibility to near zero at times.

A blizzard warning was also in effect for Rhode Island and most of eastern Massachusetts including Boston, with forecasters predicting 15 to 20 inches of snow. A blizzard warning is issued when snow is accompanied by sustained winds or gusts over 35 mph.

Oh joy.