AltWeeklies Wire
State of Street Art: Vandalism Or Legit, It's Not Going Awaynew
St. Louis is home to a budding street-art community and a talented group of graffiti-inspired gallery artists. But it's a precarious existence plagued by a broad range of conflicts. Yet the artists persist, hoping their hometown's resistance will eventually give way to understanding and acceptance.
Riverfront Times |
Keegan Hamilton |
01-23-2009 |
Art
Pen & Inc.: Comic-book Artists are Drawn to St. Louisnew
An expanding comic art network has over the past decade has gravitated to the city, thanks in part to Xplane Graphics and the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University, where many of the city's cartoonists met and worked together.
Riverfront Times |
Aimee Levitt |
11-26-2007 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
The Rockwell Filesnew
Steven Spielberg's stolen Norman Rockwell painting, a St. Louis art thief, and a plot to kill Martin Luther King: it could make a helluva movie.
Riverfront Times |
Chad Garrison |
06-08-2007 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
Evil Inknew
A lust for the grotesque and a thirst for the jugular: the mad mind of printmaker Tom Huck.
Riverfront Times |
Ian Froeb |
01-19-2007 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
Art Attacknew
Stand clear: A young St. Louis sculptor named Moses has entered the building.
Riverfront Times |
Kristen Hinman |
03-20-2006 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
Masterpiece Theatrenew
A passion for high-priced paintings leads to one big art ache.
Riverfront Times |
Kristen Hinman |
11-22-2005 |
Art
Men Still Aren't Welcome at Annual Art Shownew
Bill Russell, a 56-year-old chiropractor and acupuncturist, decided to flout the Venus Envy art show's only rule: that exhibitors must be female. He submitted photos of his work under the name Chalot Douglas-Book, and Venus Envy bit.
Riverfront Times |
Ben Westhoff |
04-26-2005 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
Bitter Brewmeister Starts Rival Art Fair in St. Louisnew
Tom Schlafly says the Saint Louis Art Fair wrongfully banished his company from selling beer at the open-air art market, favoring instead sponsor Anheuser-Busch. This year, he's going to fight back by inviting artists to join him at a rival fair, Art Outside.
Riverfront Times |
Randall Roberts |
09-07-2004 |
Art
