• Features

What Happened to the Musical Acts That Defined the Art World in the Aughts?

Playing biennials, fairs, and galleries, art bands were a distinctly 2000s phenomenon. Are we due for a revival?

• By
  Sean J. Patrick Carney
• Jun 9, 2020 11:09 am

• News

Mask Off: Listen to a Tribute Mix for Recently Dissolved Experimental Music Label Load Records

For 24 years, the Providence, Rhode Island-based Load Records acted as an underground hub, amassing a catalog that connected the worlds of punk, experimental music, and contemporary art, all…

• By
  John Chiaverina
• Apr 13, 2017 3:13 pm

• News

‘What Nerve!’: Matthew Marks Looks Beyond New York for Summer Show

Tonight, Matthew Marks Gallery opens the New York edition of “What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to Present” simultaneously at its three 22nd Street Gallery locations…

• By
  John Chiaverina
• Jul 7, 2015 4:19 pm

• ARTnews

Consumer Reports: Jim Drain

“Consumer Reports” is a recurring feature that profiles an artist’s consumption of any and all media throughout one work week. As a member of the influential Providence art collective…

• By
  The Editors of ARTnews
• Nov 12, 2014 2:35 pm

• News

Wacky, ‘Other’ Art at the RISD Museum

'What Nerve!' brings together four movements or collectives of alternative American art after 1960

• By
  Arnie Cooper
• Sep 15, 2014 9:30 am