AltWeeklies Wire
Adobe Revival Beckons as Builders Return to the Mudnew
"You know how the good Lord wasn't popular in his hometown? That's kind of the way it is with us." So says Lawrence Jetter from his Southside earth-building compound about the near complete absence of adobe buildings in San Antonio.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
07-20-2012 |
Art
Yoko Ono: American Badassnew
John Lennon's widow gives peas a chance in art show to benefit New Mexico food bank.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Enrique Limon |
07-16-2012 |
Art
Radcliffe Bailey searches for life beyond the Middle Passagenew
Wrenching percussive sounds, like something very large breaking up, emanate from a conch shell. The gratings of a ship ripped by an ocean storm, perhaps.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
07-06-2012 |
Art
Native American Artist Aims for a Perfect Playnew
Emerging imagemaker Ehren Natay is at the forefront of the new Native American arts movement.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Enrique Limon |
07-02-2012 |
Art
Tags: Ehren Natay, Native American Arts
Kick-Start My Artnew
In a society in which the axe often falls first on arts funding during a down economy, many artists wonder whether contributions from Kickstarter are telling them something different about support for the arts.
Missoula Independent |
Erika Fredrickson |
06-26-2012 |
Art
Art Rises from the Ruins in Detroit
Detroit, site of the AAN convention last weekend, is a city with an infrastructure built for 2 million people that supports a population about a third of that size.
YES! Weekly |
Jordan Green |
06-14-2012 |
Art
Arts on the Gulfnew
Silvery, coppery structures twist among old live oak trees near the shore of the Mississippi Sound, close to where the Biloxi SchoonÂer docks. This is the site of the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art, a complex of buildings that includes four metallic pods that torque like ancient, hurricane-battered trees.
Jackson Free Press |
Valerie Wells |
05-24-2012 |
Art
The Makers: A Photographic Look at Master Craftsmennew
Born from flame-belching furnaces and hammered into shape, Charleston's architectural future is being forged from the past. A new generation is carrying on the ancient arts of blacksmithing, wood carving, and glassmaking.
Charleston City Paper |
Joshua Curry |
05-16-2012 |
Art
Lost Artnew
Why does Richmond, Va. continue to stifle artistic expression?
Style Weekly |
Melissa Scott Sinclair |
04-10-2012 |
Art
Notes from the Honda Indy Grand Prix in Alabamanew
Our intrepid reporter, Kate Shoup, visits Alabama to attend the IZOD IndyCar Series race.
Comic artist Taylor-Ruth Baldwinnew
Baldwin's Hanging Rock Comics have become a Tumblr sensation for their vivid, outsider perspective on high school life.
The next wave of Nashville printmakers rocks Music Citynew
Kiss Die Cut
Nashville Scene |
Laura Hutson |
04-05-2012 |
Art
Picasso's 'Guernica' tapestry riots amid works of political consciencenew
As tourists walked by oblivious to the 25-foot-long woven mural on the wall, I could hardly believe my eyes. Hanging in the San Antonio Museum of Art's Robert and Helen Kleberg Gallery next to a painting of the stoning of Saint Stephen by José Orozco is the 1955 tapestry version of Pablo Picasso's Guernica...
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
03-18-2012 |
Art
Sex and Desolation: inside 'Seven Minutes'new
The appeal of art openings isn't just in looking at the art (which is often difficult to see, hidden behind other viewers), but in the opportunity to look at people looking at art.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
03-09-2012 |
Art
Tags: seven minutes
Luminaria's fifth brings ghetto-blasted animal cries, light sculpture, and poetrynew
Who would have thought a contemporary art festival could bring in the crowds?
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
03-08-2012 |
Art
Tags: luminaria, light sculpture
