Beatnik Beginnings: From the streets to the scene
Jim Vickers started Motif Magazine in 2004. He started Motif to give voice to marginalized groups of underrepresented Rhode Islanders. Vickers agreed to write an article for our special 20th […]
Events:
A Shared Journey
September 13, 2025 - March 5, 2026This Is a Thing, Recent Gifts to Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, 2020–2025
September 14, 2025 - March 1, 2026The Court: Art in Play
September 24, 2025 - April 26, 2026The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
Bang! You’re Dead.
Kids used to do that with their fingers. Nowadays they use video games to mock shoot each other. In San Antonio, Texas, an armed security guard stopped a mass killing […]
Top DJs on the EDM Scene
Electro Dance Music (EDM) has reached a critical mass in America and dominates much of the club and event landscape in our region. The rising prominence of these once underground […]
Can’t Afford Progressives
Long overdue for new eye glasses, I went to one of those one-hour places to exercise a $99 frame-and-lens coupon. Not naïve enough to believe anyone walks out of there […]