AltWeeklies Wire
Expansion Marks New Era for Atlanta's Premier Art Institutionnew
Signs indicate Atlanta's High Museum of Art is anticipating a boom in its attendance and art-world profile when the museum debuts the addition to its critically heralded 1983 Richard Meier-designed building on Peachtree Street on Nov. 12.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster and Layla Bellows |
11-10-2005 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
The Art of Terrornew
Artists and writers try to make sense of 9/11, Kaczynski, Iraq, McVeigh and basic terror.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
11-02-2005 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
Shattered Illusionsnew
A Prada "store" in the middle of the high Chihuahuan Desert of far West Texas looks like a mirage, but it's actually an art installation.
Houston Press |
Greg Harman |
10-31-2005 |
Art
Unsettling Imagesnew
A traveling exhibit spotlights Ralph Eugene Meatyard's disturbing, enigmatic work.
Tucson Weekly |
Margaret Regan |
10-06-2005 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
Angels and Agonynew
Rock 'n' roll poster artist Derek Hess draws on doom, gloom and Captain America for his fine art work.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
10-06-2005 |
Art
Software Engineer Designs Furniture Out of the Boxnew
Pink-haired Jose Avila made thrifty furnishings from Federal Express shipping cartons, bringing himself fame and cease-and-desist orders from FedEx.
Phoenix New Times |
Robrt L. Pela |
09-13-2005 |
Art
Viva Las Vegasnew
A nascent photographer finds the neon graveyard for signs of Sin City's past, and shares the results.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
09-08-2005 |
Art
Inmates Are Captive Audience for Artnew
Things get pretty weird for young cutting-edge muralists when their audience, and their potential funding, are products of the juvenile justice system.
East Bay Express |
David Downs |
09-05-2005 |
Art
Tongues Untiednew
Ryan Agnew and Dietrich Wegner create giant tongues and a human anus that proved the perfect backdrop for Texas weddings.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
09-01-2005 |
Art
Tags: anus, Georgia O’Keeffe
Man, Machine and Paintnew
Leftover paint, wood panels, $2,000 of fuel -- and an airplane. These were the makings of artist Mike Keeling’s most recent artistic endeavor.
Style Weekly |
Katie Gantt |
08-17-2005 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
Angels of the Apocalypsenew
Preparing for Burning Man, the author learns about fire and people as a minion of the Flaming Lotus Girls.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Steven T. Jones |
08-16-2005 |
Art
Stroke of Geniusnew
Some male nude models just have up-and-down days.
The Graffiti Hunternew
One man has spent the past four and a half years on an obsessive quest to document Boston's ever-vanishing urban art.
Boston Phoenix |
Camille Dodero |
08-11-2005 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
Wheeled Apparitionsnew
In Seattle, bicyclists' high-profile political statement is also a savvy urban-art installation.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
08-10-2005 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
Touched by an Angelnew
Two Cleveland brothers created the world's best-selling poster -- of Farrah Fawcett's gleaming teeth, windblown hair, red bathing suit, and her nipple. But the business almost destroyed them.
Cleveland Scene |
Kevin Hoffman |
08-09-2005 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
