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« American Ruins | Main | Jon Stewart: confronts NBC's Chris Matthews: New book is "a recipe for sadness" » October 2, 2007Apartment at the Mall: Website with video, photos and an artist's apology
PROVIDENCE — Eight artists snuck into the depths of Providence Place mall and built a secret studio apartment in which they stayed, on and off, for nearly four years until mall security finally caught their leader last week... In contrast to Boston's fear of what it doesn't understand (Cops to Flashy Things: Stay Out of Boston!), Providence seems to have gotten relatively sophisticated about performance art since Barnaby Evans turned burning braziers on the downtown rivers into WaterFire -- conceptual art that made Providence hotter for tourists and conventioneers. Several commenters in an anonymous online survey did leap to thinking if artists can lurk, so can terrorists. (And bogeymen. Anywhere. Eeeek!) Art is supposed to make you see in new ways. Whether what you see delights you or terrifies you probably depends on what you bring to it.
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my passport photo blogging since 2002 garden blogs archived headlines  Sheila Lennon is features & interactive producer of projo.com, the Web site of The Providence (R.I.) Journal Rhode Island |
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