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Las Vegas' Other Museum May Be All Dressed Up With Nothing to Shownew
Construction on Nevada's most ambitious museum should finish on schedule this spring. But there’s just one little problem: There’s no money left to actually put in the exhibits and pay the personnel to run it.
Las Vegas Weekly |
T.R. Witcher |
01-29-2009 |
Art
Legendary Installation Artists Visit Asheville, N.C.new
Legendary installation artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude discuss their life's work, including their final tow projects, still in the planning stages.
Mountain Xpress |
Alli Marshall |
01-28-2009 |
Art
Photos from the Frontnew
Combat photographer and Air Force veteran Stacy Pearsall is part of the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art's inside look at the War on Terror.
Charleston City Paper |
John Stoehr |
01-28-2009 |
Art
We're Off to See the Wizard: 48 Hours Covering Obama's Inaugurationnew
Attending the Inauguration was an epic of sorts — a journey from home through obstacles and barriers toward some ultimate confrontation with fate. You don’t just skip ahead to the end of a quest — you struggle to reach it and hope that it brings the resolution you wanted from it.
C-Ville Weekly |
Brendan Fitzgerald |
01-28-2009 |
Art
Tags: Obama inauguration, portraiture
Working Stiff: Amy Stein's 'Domesticated'new
As human domesticity presses onward and communities sprawl further into undeveloped regions, the wildlife in those regions runs out of places to remain wild. Think of it as the gentrification of nature. Photographer Amy Stein sees it less as coexistence, and more as entrapment.
Philadelphia City Paper |
John Vettese |
01-27-2009 |
Art
You Can't Take It with You: Philadelphia Artists Explore the Transience of Naturenew
Most outdoor art installations are built with permanence in mind, the point being to work with materials that can stand the ravages of time and weather. In curating "Ephemerality" at Philadelphia's Schuylkill Center, Zoë Cohen had the opposite in mind.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Shaun Brady |
01-27-2009 |
Art
It’s Good to Be the King’s Election Lawyernew
Chicago attorney Michael Dorf has thrown his hat in the ring for the job of head honcho at the National Endowment for the Arts. Here are his killer qualifications: from the time Barack Obama began his run against Bobby Rush for Congress in 1999 through Obama’s election to the U.S. Senate in 2004, Dorf was his election lawyer.
Chicago Reader |
Deanna Isaacs |
01-26-2009 |
Art
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
Firehouse Gallery Gets a Boost from Warholnew
At a time when financial news is almost uniformly grim, it’s a special pleasure to get a windfall. Burlington’s Firehouse Gallery did just that with the receipt of a $75,000 grant for exhibition support from the New York-based Andy Warhol Foundation.
Seven Days |
Pamela Polston |
01-23-2009 |
Art
Go Deep: Self-Taught Artists Exhibit at Memphis College of Artnew
A group of self-taught Memphis artists, not well-known in their own city but revered by folk-art aficionados around the world, are featured in Memphis College of Art's "Close to Home: African American Folk Art from Memphis Collectors."
The Memphis Flyer |
Carol Knowles |
01-23-2009 |
Art
Rising Homeless Population Finds a Way to Express Itselfnew
A Boulder cafe hosts an exhibit of work by homeless artists to raise funds for a local social services organization.
Boulder Weekly |
Dylan Otto Krider |
01-23-2009 |
Art
Southern Folk Art Looks at Race and Civil Rightsnew
Two folk art exhibits focus on race relations in the South. One exhibit includes works by a group of artists from Alabama.
Mountain Xpress |
Alli Marshall |
01-14-2009 |
Art
D.C.'s Museums Had a Hard Time Sculpting Greatness in 2008's Down Marketnew
The state of D.C.'s art museums at the end of 2008 presents a quandary not unlike the one currently on everyone's mind in the financial sector: Should troubled institutions be rescued or allowed to fail?
Washington City Paper |
Jeffry Cudlin |
01-08-2009 |
Art
The Kresge Foundation Fends Off Artist Starvation and Fuels the Creative Classnew
The Kresge Artist Fellowships -- which will annually award 18 local artists $25,000 -- are one part of an $8.8 million overall commitment to arts and culture in the Detroit area made by the foundation.
Metro Times |
Kelli B. Kavanaugh |
01-06-2009 |
Art
Faith Ringgold's Art Quilts Tell the African-American Storynew
Internationally-known painted quilt artist Faith Ringgold talks about her art, her influences, and her thoughts on race in America.
Mountain Xpress |
Alli Marshall |
12-19-2008 |
Art
