This exhibition featured drawings and paintings that were reproduced in The New Age between 1910 and 1914. A weekly periodical with a wide readership among London intellectuals, and one that imagined itself as providing a neutral platform from which the champions and opponents of various movements in the visual arts could speak, The New Age was uniquely positioned to showcase debates taking place over the nature of ‘modern’ British art at the time.
Learn more about New Art in The New Age: What Was Modern? (1910-1914)
September 30 – October 30, 2005
Carriage House Gallery
47 Power Street
Monday – Friday, 1 – 4 p.m.
This exhibition featured the work of comic artist Ben Katchor, who began publishing comic strips in the early 1980s. Avoiding the superhero-versus-supervillain format favored by most mainstream comics, Katchor instead treated areas that few cartoonists had dared explore, such as Jewish mysticism, Jewish-American history, and the history of architecture and urban design.
Article in the Providence Journal
November 7, 2005 – February 3, 2006
Carriage House Gallery
47 Power Street
Monday – Friday, 2 – 4 p.m.
Skateboarding and the multiple incarnations of skateboard art provided the inspiration for Rebecca Sauer's Urban Studies thesis installation: "(Re)Making the Streets: Skateboarders and the City." Skateboarders see every aspect of the urban environment as part of a theater for play. The installation's purpose was to introduce the idea of this alternative spatial experience, emphasizing details in the urban environment that might go unnoticed by pedestrians. It used audio, photographs, and text to accomplish these aims.
April 19 – September 30, 2006
Carriage House Gallery
47 Power Street
Wednesday – Friday, 2 – 4 p.m.
"Rhythm Nation: South Asian America Performs Race Onstage," a multimedia exhibition, addressed the ways South Asian American students on college campuses use culture shows to define themselves and their communities. These colorful and incredibly energizing performances function as an arena for the negotiation of racial and ethnic identity for South Asian American youth. The exhibit raised questions of how self-representation is both empowering and problematic. In performing, South Asian Americans put themselves on display, recreating an orientalist gaze, but also attempt to counter racist stereotypes by redefining what it means to be South Asian American.
May 5 – September 30, 2006
Carriage House Gallery
47 Power Street
Wednesday – Friday, 2 – 4 p.m.
New Art in The New Age
Chinnereth by David Bomberg in The New Age (April 2, 1914)
The insomniac's mansion
Ben Katchor is the creator of the comic-strip saga Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer.
Skateboarders in the city
This exhibition, which included audio, as well as visual elements, was created by a student in the urban studies program.
Rhythm Nation
"Rhythm Nation: South Asian America Performs Race Onstage" was created by Amita Manghnani as part of her senior thesis in American civilization.