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March 6th, 2021 in Art and Featured. Closed Starting March 25, Julie Mehretu’s paintings, drawings and prints will be on view in a midcareer retrospective at New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art, before moving to the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. (PHOTO: JULIE MEHRETU) Wall Street Journal The abstract painter uses architectural drawings and photographs to create works on a grand scale The artist Julie Mehretu, 51, likes to work on a grand scale. A silent short film by the British artist Tacita Dean shows Ms. Mehretu at work on her monumental painting “Mural�...

Conditions were hardly ideal for a celebration last Saturday, with dark skies and heavy rains looming over southern Rhode Island and many local annual holiday events on hold due to a rise in COVID-19 cases throughout the region. It simply wasn't enough to stop first responders and volunteers from coming together to celebrate the fifth anniversary of Matthew's Wish with a special, socially distanced cruiser convoy and toy parade that spanned from the University of Rhode Island to the Rhode Island Center Assisting Those in Need in Charlestown as a way of helping underprivileged children this...