AltWeeklies Wire
The Magnet Mafia Sticks to Street Artnew
Matt Feeney and Harrison Nealey have a new way for artists to stick it to Denver.
Tags: visual arts
Nakki Goranin Frames the History of the Photoboothnew
The Vermont photographer's new book American Photobooth is the first history of the once wildly popular and ubiquitous automatic picture-taking machine.
Seven Days |
Pamela Polston |
02-22-2008 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
Savage Dragon is a Free Agentnew
Berkeley's Image Comics forever changed the ways comic book artists relate to the publishers.
East Bay Express |
Rachel Swan |
02-20-2008 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
Practically Alive: The Art of Taxidermynew
Stuffing animals is far from a lost art at Wilderness Taxidermy & Outfitters, which mounts some 600 animals a year.
Mountain Xpress |
Kent Priestley |
02-15-2008 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
Female Architects Talk Shopnew
Thirty years ago, architecture was a man thing. Few women braved the drafting room, and even fewer stepped foot on construction sites.
San Diego CityBeat |
Kinsee Morlan |
02-13-2008 |
Art
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Why We Look at Animalsnew
Humans evolved with a desire to connect with nature, often through art, but how long will that last?
Charleston City Paper |
John Stoehr |
02-13-2008 |
Art
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Museum of the Lostnew
Misplaced, stolen and obliterated works need curating too.
New Haven Advocate |
Stephen Vincent Kobasa |
02-12-2008 |
Art
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Marked for Lifenew
Ahead of the Sneaker Pimps Montreal event, graffiti legend Futura 2000 reflects on tagging as urban telecom, cancelling the art-star ego trip and his baptism of fire in the bowels of the Big Apple.
Montreal Mirror |
Rupert Bottenberg |
02-08-2008 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
Soft Sellnew
Chris Foster's vending machine makes visual art affordable and fun.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Laura Kenins |
01-29-2008 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
Portland Art Center, R.I.P.new
The Portland Art Center closes -- who is to blame?
Willamette Week |
Richard Speer |
01-23-2008 |
Art
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Alec Soth Stays Sane by Staying Putnew
From the balcony of a brand new Chanel Boutique one evening this past December, Minneapolis photographer Alec Soth, an invited guest at the store's glamorous opening party, surveys this scene, clad in a black blazer and black slacks he bought with the help of an former intern -- "a real fashionable dude."
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Jeff Severns Guntzel |
01-23-2008 |
Art
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The Secret Lives of Superheroesnew
New York-based photographer Dulce Pinzon brings immigrant workers to the forefront in "The Real Story of Superheroes."
San Antonio Current |
Jennifer Herrera |
01-23-2008 |
Art
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Milwaukee Public Museum hosts Body Worldsnew
The millions of visitors worldwide who've visited the Body Worlds exhibits to date prove that seeing the human body bereft of all its mystery, not to mention its skin, is fascinating.
Shepherd Express |
Aisha Motlani |
01-18-2008 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
Being Katenew
Kate Bowen found her alter ego on Google. Then she got out her camera.
Boise Weekly |
Anna Demetriades |
01-16-2008 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
Neglected Treasuresnew
A famed Mexican artist painted six murals for the 1939 World's Fair in San Francisco. One famously disappeared. The others have practically been ignored.
Tags: visual arts
