This exhibition, intended to give context to the Yousuf Karsh photographs in the adjacent gallery, presents portraits of literary, performing, and visual artists by a broad range of 20th-century artists associated with the genre. Portraits are often collaborations between the maker and the sitter, and when they are the collaboration of two artists, the results can be quite exceptional. Works on view include Marlene Dietrich by Cecil Beaton, Stephen Spender by Lucien Freud, Brassai by Pablo Picasso, and Mick Jagger by Andy Warhol.

Museum of Art
Rhode Island School of Design
224 Benefit Street
Providence, RI
     

This exhibition celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of Yousuf Karsh (Canadian, b. Armenia, 1908-2002), one of the most admired portrait photographers of the 20th century. Throughout his long life, he photographed more than 15,000 individuals, among them such notable figures as Sir Winston Churchill and Albert Einstein. Artists and designers were frequent subjects, and some 20 of these portraits are the focus of the exhibition, which includes celebrated images of Georgia O'Keeffe, Pablo Picasso, and Frank Lloyd Wright. The photographs in Portraits of Artists have been promised as gifts to The RISD Museum by Estrillita Karsh, the artist's widow. Complementing Karsh's works is a selection of portraits of artists drawn from the Museum's distinguished print, drawing, and photography collections, on view in the Buonanno Works on Paper Gallery.
     

The earliest Japanese woodblock-printed books and single-sheet prints were monochromatic. Even after the technique of color woodblock printing had fully developed in the mid-18th century, artists continued to produce one-color works, some of which were dependent on the Japanese painting tradition. This exhibition examines the variety of printed effects that could be achieved in monochrome printmaking, including book illustration.

Museum of Art
Rhode Island School of Design
224 Benefit Street
Providence, RI
     

Why should kids have all the fun?

The Rochambeau Branch has added a Chess Club for adults on Saturday afternoons in the downstairs conference room. Bring your own boards and pieces.

Rochambeau Branch, Providence Public Library
Conference Room
708 Hope Street

Come join the Kid's Chess Club every Saturday afternoon. The boards and pieces are supplied. Meet kids your own age and level who you can play with. Get pointers from Graham, the resident chess teacher. Casual, drop-in, no registration required.

Rochambeau Branch, Providence Public Library
Children's Room
708 Hope Street

Art+History is an exhibition and community programming series about the processes of interpreting history. The John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage has commissioned Carla Herrera-Prats and Jill Slosberg Ackerman to make new artworks influenced by the physical and historical parameters of the Nightingale-Brown House. Built in 1792 and boasting gardens designed by the Olmstead landscape design firm, it was home to five generations of the Brown family and now houses the JNBC. Art+History is a catalyst for conversation about how historical narrative is crafted and a different model for engaging audiences in historical sites and museums through contemporary artwork.

Nightingale-Brown House
357 Benefit St
Providence
     

Marcel Breuer: Design and Architecture is the first exhibition to treat all facets of Marcel Breuer's work with equal weight, from the highly innovative furniture he produced as both a student and teacher at the famed Bauhaus, to the modest houses he created after moving to the United States, to the large-scale buildings he designed for major cities. Models, drawings, floorplans, photographs, video projections, and interactive computer terminals shed light on his long and varied architectural career in this exhibition, developed by the Vitra Design Museum in Germany.

Complementing this exhibition we have designed a number of programs, including a Bauhaus-inspired opening party on April 15, an April 30 lecture by Diane Lewis, and an April 16 Gallery Talk by our Assistant Director James Brayton Hall.

Museum of Art
Rhode Island School of Design
224 Benefit Street
Providence, RI
     

Shih Chieh Huang (Taiwanese, b. 1975) describes his work as an "interchanging process between people and space." The artist's low-tech installations incorporate everyday objects, such as electronic appliances, toys, plastic bags and containers, combined with air, water, light, cables, motion sensors, computer parts and video footage. Because of their numerous kinetic elements, Huang's colorful and playful environments are constantly in flux, with elegant and strange results.

RISD Museum of Art
224 Benefit St.
Providence, RI
     

Come walk a winding garden path and enjoy an enchanting experience among hundreds of nature's most amazing winged wonders- butterflies in bloom.

Roger Williams Park Zoo
1000 Elmwood Avenue


Providence, RI
401-785-3510
     

June
6/4 - Cinderella Man
6/8 - Pirates of the Caribbean
6/18 - The Sting
6/25 - Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

July
7/2 - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
7/9 - Walk the Line
7/16 - Ferris Bueller's Day Off
7/23 - North by Northwest
7/30 - The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe

August
8/6 - History of the World Part 1
8/13 - Jaws 3D
8/20 - For Your Eyes Only
8/27 -Rainman

September
9/3 - Wayne's World
9/10 - Cannonball Run
9/17 - The Graduate
9/24 - Sixteen Candles

At the corner of Westminster St. and Union St.
Every Thursday at dusk
Free to the public.
     

A special engagement at The Lederer Theater Center, home of Trinity Rep

Set in a department store, where four women with seemingly nothing in common but a black lace bra meet by chance, the musical pokes fun at things such as hot flashes, memory loss, mood swings, wrinkles, night sweats and eating binges.

Menopause The Musical® is a 90-minute production which includes 25 re-lyricized tunes from the ‘60s and ‘70s and culminates with a salute to women who are experiencing The Change. Come see what nearly 11 million fans all over the world are laughing about!

Single tickets are priced at $45 and can be purchased by calling 401-351-4242, visiting the Trinity Rep box office at 201 Washington St. in Providence, or online.