30 Nov

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In Daniel Lefcourt’s Arrangement series, composite photographs from 2004-5, the artist arrays a multifarious collection of texts, images and objects in precisely ordered compositions that interrogate how a world can be compressed into a single image. The Arrangement series is rife with “tautological references” to image-making and image solving:...

05 Mar

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In celebration of its 275th year, this exhibition brings forth a rich selection of some of the Redwood's unparalleled holdings, gathered over nearly three centuries of collecting and donations. Starting with rare, annotated works from the Original Collection, to a range of eighteenth-century materials, such...

07 Sep

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Even as she continues to be a signal tastemaker in the cultural life of Newport, Happy van Beuren’s discretion and humility have masked an exceptional talent in the creation of dazzling sailors’ valentines that is largely unknown except to her closest friends and family.   In the...

31 Jan

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Despite all of the discomfort wrought by the pandemic, for photographer Katharine Boden the isolation imposed by the COVID-19 lockdown also yielded an unanticipated gift: reflective time, and out of it the instigation to ruminate deeply on her immediate world. Benefitting from the technical capabilities...

31 Jan

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Commissioned by Yale Dean Tamar Gendler for the recently created Faculty of Arts and Sciences, this scepter was designed to be carried in major institutional ceremonies, such as graduation. As such, it represents all fifty departments embracing the Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, Biological and Physical...

15 Nov

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Doug Fitch Then and Now: Tales From the Big Chair  is an outdoor sculptural installation created by polymath Doug Fitch to counteract “presentism.” Coined by the scholar Alan Jacobs, presentism is defined as the prevailing over-emphasis on the significance of today’s lived experience and the undervaluing of history, leading...

12 Oct

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] In Library of Amorphous Matter, Jocelyne Prince considers the material properties of glass, an amorphous or non-crystalline solid that is the central protagonist of a fantastical library of cracks, drips and scars. Slide Library (2002-present), exhibited in the Redwood’s Rovensky Delivery Room on custom “athenaeum-like” bookcases,...

29 Jul

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Remembered as one of the New Deal’s Farm Security Administration’s trio of great photographers alongside Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee’s legacy has up to now rested largely on his iconic black & white photographs of rural America. Presenting 67 enlarged color prints of...

17 Jun

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Dough Fitch Then and Now: Tales from The Big Chair is an outdoor sculptural installation created by polymath Doug Fitch to counteract “presentism.” Coined by the scholar Alan Jacobs, presentism is defined as the prevailing over-emphasis on the significance of today’s lived experience and the undervaluing of...

17 Jun

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Doug Fitch Then and Now: Tales From the Big Chair is an outdoor sculptural installation created by polymath Doug Fitch to counteract “presentism.” Coined by the scholar Alan Jacobs, presentism is defined as the prevailing over-emphasis on the...

02 Jun

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Norwegian artist Per Barclay presented three bodies of work at the Redwood in the summer of 2019: a site-specific commission, Oil Room(Redwood) (2019) in Abraham Redwood’s eighteenth-century summer house; Untitled (2018), a 7-foot glass house where pumped water sloshes gently and rhythmically around the interior...

01 Dec

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Claggetts of Newport: Master Clockmakers in Colonial America featured 35 clocks, the largest assemblage of Claggett and Wady clocks ever brought together—many never exhibited publicly. It examined the range of the Claggetts’ clock production in terms of their technical sophistication, decorative finesse, and context...

29 Jul

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In a curator talk, Leora Maltz Leca discussed the Tayou's site-specific memorial for the Redwood, contextualizing his monument to global slavery in light of the larger memorial turn in contemporary art. What does this installation propose? How does it picture history? And what does it...

02 Jun

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Commissioned to commemorate the gift of author and New Yorker staff writer Calvin Tomkins’ art book collection to the Redwood, this large-scale acrylic exemplifies Ruscha’s enduring exploration of the visual and connotative potential of words and phrases With words functioning as both bearers of meaning and...

01 Apr

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This exhibition highlighted the generous gift of the Slocum family of books from John J. Slocum's personal library. An erudite collector, Mr. Slocum, amassed a diverse library of rare and antiquarian books ranging from 16th century volumes to important 20th century first editions. His particular...

02 Dec

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The signal aesthetic space of modern spectacle culture, the Parisian Salon remains the indispensable precursory context that gave rise to virtually everything defining today’s art world: from superstar artists and the art market to museum exhibitions and biennales; from consumer culture to institutionalized art history....

01 Jul

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Shara Hughes’ Summer House was conceived and created by the artist specifically for the Redwood's eighteenth-century octagonal “folly" in summer 2017. Curated by Dodie Kazanjian, with whom the artist has worked extensively, Kazanjian describes how: "It cannot be entered, but only viewed by one person...

15 Mar

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]For over a decade, Boston artist Kevin Dacey has been photographing cultural spaces such as museums and libraries, creating liquidy surfaces of reflection that dissolve the boundaries between outside and in: between nature and culture, between reality and its multiple refractions. Launching the artist’s yearlong...

01 Dec

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]From the birth of graphic art, in the drawings of Paleolithic cave artists, line was the basic means through which to define form or suggest volumes. Likewise relied upon to communicate subtle differentiations of surface, texture, or color, a line is an abstraction, yet one...

01 Sep

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The optimism of the American postwar era ushered in what is now regarded as the ‘great age’ of automotive art, a moment when American engineering know-how was matched to a resurgence of artistic talent, yielding some of the finest automotive design drawings ever produced. If the...

01 Mar

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Art and architecture have always been allied fields, given that the act of planning requires the twin processes of designing and drawing. The forms of architectural designs have nonetheless changed radically as advances in technology, as well as shifts in economics and client demands, have...

01 Nov

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The inaugural exhibition of the newly-constructed Peirce Prince Gallery, “Judge Us By Our Hearts”: Norman Prince and the Lafayette Escadrille: American Aviators in France During WWI opened November 7. Co-curated by two authorities on early aviation, Paul Glenshaw and Dan Patterson, the exhibition examines aviator...

01 Jul

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Oliver Hazard Perry: The Hero of Lake Erie was a collaborative exhibition, gathering together cultural artifacts from seven different organizations and three private collections to celebrate the legacy of one of Rhode Island’s best known military heroes. The exhibition was timed to coincide with the...