AltWeeklies Wire
Hidden City Philadelphia Brings Long-Forgotten Landmarks Back to Lifenew
Hidden City Philadelphia, Peregrine Arts' monthlong arts festival, will house new site-specific works in spaces familiar to most by reputation, some by sight, and all by their current state of decay or dilapidation.
Philadelphia City Paper |
A.D. Amorosi |
06-02-2009 |
Art
What's a Feminist Like You Doing in a Place Like This?new
Feminist art icon Judy Chicago now lives in Belen, New Mexico, long considered by this reporter to be the worst place on earth.
Weekly Alibi |
Erin Adair-Hodges |
06-01-2009 |
Art
Las Vegas' Outdoor Aerosol-Art Gallery Redefines What 'Art' Isnew
The talents behind Las Vegas' outdoor aerosol-art gallery see it as a way to save kids from the streets.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Becky Bossheart |
05-28-2009 |
Art
Era-Defining Cass Corridor Artists Reconvene on the Wallnew
Time and Place is a beautifully curated and installed exhibition of artists from Detroit's Cass Corridor from approximately 1968 to 1980.
Metro Times |
Glen Mannisto |
05-26-2009 |
Art
The Puzzling Dilemma of an Artist Who Rejects the Imperative of the Contemporarynew
Danville Chadbourne doesn't want to be a contemporary artist, but he has no choice if he wants to be an artist who continues to matter.
San Antonio Current |
Elaine Wolff |
05-20-2009 |
Art
Tags: Danville Chadbourne, visual art
A Meditation on Keeping Great Finds to Oneselfnew
Any object is marred by seeing. To reveal it means to erase it. Whatever people find there will not be what it was that inspired their coming.
New Haven Advocate |
Stephen Vincent Kobasa |
05-19-2009 |
Art
Tags: commentary, visual art
Dan Lacey's Bizarre Pancake Paintings Land Him Fame Beyond Gawkernew
A cartoonist's flapjack-topped noggins target everyone from McCain to Franken to Harry Potter.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Bradley Campbell |
04-30-2009 |
Art
Photographer Andy Cook Documents the People Behind the Grim Economic Statisticsnew
Cook recently found himself in the same position as a growing number of Americans -- unexpectedly out of a job. He turned his predicament on its head and the result is Faces of the Recession.
Baltimore City Paper |
Lee Gardner |
04-21-2009 |
Art
Thirty Years of Art; Six Years of Warnew
Santa Fe's Center for Contemporary Arts, at 30, is all grown-up. Of course, like a lot of kids who came of age during the same period, it has occasionally shirked its responsibilities, struggled to pay the bills and cathartically reinvented itself more than a few times.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Zane Fischer |
04-16-2009 |
Art
Photo Exhibit Reveals Unseen Alabamiansnew
The familiarity of the faces that fill each frame in "Just Down the Road" accounts for most of what makes this photo exhibit so engaging.
Birmingham Weekly |
Glenny Brock |
04-14-2009 |
Art
Stallin': Larry Bob Phillips' 'Piss-Teen Chapel'new
Larry Bob Phillips recently completed a mural in the men's restroom at Albuquerque's Atomic Cantina. It's a beautifully complex mess of desire, sadness and digestion involving bombs, pasta and sex.
Weekly Alibi |
David Leigh |
04-14-2009 |
Art
The Alibi's Sixth Annual Photo Contestnew
Is photography simply the capturing of a moment, or is it the creation of it? Don't look at us; we got nothing. Instead, look at the work submitted by Alibi readers to our annual snapshot shindig.
Weekly Alibi |
Erin Adair-Hodges |
04-14-2009 |
Art
Tags: photography, Albuquerque
To Capture the Grasses and Bugs, One Artist Turns to Plasticnew
In time, Regan Rosburg has mastered the elusive resin (also called acrylic), an ultra-hard and particularly unforgiving clear plastic that she describes as "emotional."
Colorado Springs Independent |
Edie Adelstein |
04-07-2009 |
Art
Landscapes, Urban and Suburban, on the Brink of Catastrophenew
An ecology of tedium might threaten us here, given the cascade of exhibitions being devoted to landscape. But there are a sufficient number of individual artists in two local shows who succeed in making the subject their own, while escaping the stereotypes of the convention.
New Haven Advocate |
Stephen Vincent Kobasa |
04-07-2009 |
Art
One Woman's Quest to Celebrate Cancer's Scarsnew
Despite breast cancer's pervasive impact, mastectomy scars are an alien concept to most of us. On behalf of those who have battled breast cancer and the hundreds of thousands who soon will, Devon Williams, is on a mission to celebrate them publicly as marks of strength, perseverance, femininity and beauty.
Pasadena Weekly |
Joe Piasecki |
03-30-2009 |
Art
