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Notes from the Honda Indy Grand Prix in Alabamanew

Our intrepid reporter, Kate Shoup, visits Alabama to attend the IZOD IndyCar Series race.
Comic artist Taylor-Ruth Baldwinnew

Baldwin's Hanging Rock Comics have become a Tumblr sensation for their vivid, outsider perspective on high school life.
Slideshow: Super Bowl Muralsnew

Check out more of the murals created throughout Indianapolis in celebration of the upcoming Super Bowl.
Tags: Super Bowl Murals, Super Bowl XLVI
Indy Gets 46 Murals for Super Bowl XLVInew

Super Bowl murals have resuscitated Indy's public arts, given artists meaningful work and promised to make art a nationally recognized part of the city.
Review: 'Mapable' at SpaceCamp Gallerynew

A show of map-inspired art features entries from around the world, including an Israeli artist who added dinosaur bones to a political map of the Middle East.
Joseph Crone's 'Fragments'new

The Herron grad shows off his film noir-inspired work — in colored pencil, following a process involving photography and acetate — in a show at Wug Laku’s.
Tags: acetate, joseph crone
Review: Mike Graves' 'Time on the Train'new

Train-centered work by Mike Graves, inspired by the artist's time spent riding the "L," headphones firmly affixed, blissing out to the sights and sounds.
Review: FSDC Book Launchnew

Shared Heritage premieres a rarity in the Indy world: the artist-produced zine. 'FSDC,' or 'Fountain Square Don't Care,' incorporates the work of eight promising artists.
Unclothed: Exposing the Art Nudenew

Gary Mitchell's "Symmetry" will be the talked-about photo of "Unclothed: Exposing the Art Nude."
Review: The Wood Shownew

Gallery 924's latest show - a collection of wood-based and wood-inspired artwork - is highlighted by a sculpture by Tom Tedrowe and a beguiling painting by April Schafer.
Teach the kids well...about Seurat and Chihulynew

The pilot to Nate Heck's atypically hip children's TV show 'Artrageous with Nate' is airing on WFYI, with plans for syndication and a Pepsi Refresh grant afoot.
OTB: Serving the Developmentally Disablednew

Clients of Outside the Box will showcase their artwork at the “A Cause for Elegance” event at the Athenaeum ArtSpace to raise funds for 20 local nonprofit causes.
Review: Charles Gick's 'Involving the Sky'new

Charles Gick, whose work is on view through November at the Indianapolis Art Center, makes the upper atmosphere seem palpable in his depictions of skies.
Review: Cuarteto Casalsnew

Ensemble Music's season opener Cuarteto Casals played Schubert and Shostakovich with zip and panache, though the second violin was buried in the mix.
Maxwell Anderson’s Indianapolis Museum of Artnew

Like him or not, we’ll miss Maxwell Anderson in the director's seat at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. He didn’t just make the IMA vibrant — he made it indispensable.