Effortlessly weaving together urban renewal debates and the DIY artistic spirit, Jeremy Workman’s “Secret Mall Apartment” ...

How did a group of eight artists not ... lock and key? The apartment caper ended four years after it began in 2003, when security guards discovered the space, but Townsend says that it's only ...

One of the eight artists who built and lived in a secret apartment ... "Secret Mall Apartment," premiering Friday in Providence. I sat down with Michael Townsend, one of the mall apartment ...

I live in Providence, Rhode Island. It used to be a rough town, a paragon of urban depression. Then, in the late 1990s, Mayor ...

In the early 2000s, artist ... and caught Townsend and his friend. He was banned from the mall for life and the apartment was permanently sealed. The ban, however, has apparently been lifted. Townsend ...

A year after its Somerville premiere, the Jesse Eisenberg-produced doc returns as part of a national release on April 11-17.

A portrait of human adaptability and resilience emerges from “Secret Mall Apartment,” as these qualities are portrayed as earned rather than proclaimed. The film shows human responses to displacement ...

Photo: Secret Mall Apartment features eight artists living in Providence Place Mall for four years. Two of the artists were ...

And on Friday, a documentary about their “Secret Mall Apartment” will make its ... two of those artists — Michael Townsend and Adriana Valdez Young — talked about what sparked the idea ...

Michael Townsend, the founder of the Tape Art movement ... Fallon calls Providence Place mall secret apartment documentary ...

Townsend lived in a hardscrabble loft in Olneyville’s Eagle Square in a mill called Fort Thunder. From there, he and ...

There were eight artists and friends involved in the secret project, but one in particular, Michael ... Mall Apartment recounts the scheme from when it was first a glimmer in Townsend’s mind.