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Veterans Against War; For Screenprintingnew
A former Guantanamo Bay guard hosts an anti-war screenprinting party.
The Portland Mercury |
John Motley |
12-19-2008 |
Art
Leonard Cohen's Son Talks About His Dad's Visual Artnew
Though his son says he "doodles" every day, Leonard Cohen is only now opening his visual archives to the public.
The Georgia Straight |
Alexander Varty |
12-09-2008 |
Art
High-Class Heists: Art Crime is on the Risenew
South Florida is a global center in the international art crime circuit -- an enterprise that accounts for more than $6 billion a year, more than the cross-border trade of diamonds, sex, or hot cars.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Tim Elfrink |
12-09-2008 |
Art
Angela Crafton Brings Unusual Cred to Philly's Prison Arts Programnew
Crafton has taught mural painting to Philadelphia prison system inmates for the past five years. But a decade ago, she was incarcerated herself.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Frank Rubino |
12-08-2008 |
Art
Stanley Tigerman Talks About His Design for the Illinois Holocaust Museumnew
He says the project really hasn't changed since he interviewed for the commission. He took "a little free-hand sketch" to that interview, he said, and "I've built the sketch. Developed dramatically, modified somewhat, but not in any way that is detrimental. I'd been waiting to do this building all my life."
Chicago Reader |
Deanna Isaacs |
11-24-2008 |
Art
Photographer Jerry Siegel Reveals the New in Familiar Southern Scenesnew
There's no human life in any of Jerry Siegel's photos, just the suggestion that it's still there. Humanity seems to be waiting silently on the edge of the frame, never in a rush to get back. Life has slowed down, slower than the usual Southern way.
Charleston City Paper |
Laura Stokes |
11-12-2008 |
Art
Worsening Economy Brings the Fundraiser Blues to Fine Arts Orgsnew
Besides the obvious fact that leaner times generally make grants and donations harder to come by, the endowments that safeguard these groups' financial security are often tied up in investment portfolios, not exactly the most stable sector of the market lately.
Houston Press |
Chris Gray |
11-11-2008 |
Art
Was Roxanna Brown an Art-World Fraud?new
Her questionable death in federal custody means we may never know.
Seattle Weekly |
Rick Anderson |
11-03-2008 |
Art
Boxes of Memories: Sonny King's Circus of Oldnew
Memories are all that remain of the original Silver's Circus, and it's the vivid recollections of travels with his dad's circus in the late 1940s that Sonny King lovingly crafted into a colorful series of 13 detailed dioramas that debuted last year at the Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art Museum.
Orlando Weekly |
Lindy T. Shepherd |
10-30-2008 |
Art
Prospect.1 Turns New Orleans into The Big Easelnew
Not the least of the unprecedented ideas behind Prospect.1, the international art biennial opening this week all across New Orleans, is that the United States' first such major exhibition is happening in a city brought to the edge of ruin just three years earlier.
Do the WPA's Striking Visuals Still Make a Mark?new
The Works Progress Administration is often viewed through the kaleidoscope of the arts -- specifically the iconic, familiar posters originally commissioned as a visual representation of the WPA's credo. But what's their purpose today, aside from nostalgia?
Philadelphia City Paper |
A.D. Amorosi |
10-28-2008 |
Art
Trevor and Ryan Oakes Have Invented a New Way to Drawnew
The easel the Oakeses invented to impose image on paper has forerunners that go back centuries. Their device is the first, however, that requires neither mirrors nor lenses.
Chicago Reader |
Damien James |
10-27-2008 |
Art
Guerilla Artist Shepard Fairey Takes a Giant Step into the World of Politicsnew
As he waited behind bars during the Democratic National Convention in August, the two worlds that Shepard Fairey now inhabits -- one where he's a street artist, the other as an impassioned supporter of Sen. Barack Obama -- collided in the strangest of ways.
Charleston City Paper |
Chris Haire |
10-09-2008 |
Art
Patron Saints of East Bay Graffiti Finally Get Their Propsnew
A graffiti battle's inclusion in a literary festival says something about the current status of the medium. Now that hip-hop is the domain of pointy-headed intellectuals, it's not surprising to see graffiti follow suit.
East Bay Express |
Rachel Swan |
10-08-2008 |
Art
The Art and Propaganda of World War Inew
Together with Frank Faulkner, Allison Hays Lane has been assembling The Winds and Words of War for more than two years. The exhibition travels on to Chicago at the end of October, and will be memorialized in a book from Seattle's Marquand Press.
San Antonio Current |
Sarah Fisch |
10-01-2008 |
Art
