AltWeeklies Wire
Raising the Grainnew
Wood carver Edwin Jeffery finds historical, biblical and pop culture figures in his wood and has collectors asking "Why isn't this guy famous?"
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
08-04-2005 |
Art
Tags: Edwin Jeffery, Ray Charles
A Grand Tour of Midwest Summer Art Showsnew
This season's exhibits include a collection of outsider art and Art Brut at Buffalo Forum in Milwaukee, and a show of dead human bodies that have undergone a “plastination” process at the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland.
Metro Times |
Nolan Simon and Rebecca Mazzel |
07-15-2005 |
Art
Tags: Cincinnati, 4 Under 40: Contemporary Michigan Artists, American Science and Surplus, and the Great Lakes Science Center’s Bodyworlds, Art Institute of Chicago show, Arts Center, Cleveland Museum of Art, Contemporary, CUT/Film as Found Object, Dan Flavin: A Retrospective, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michaël Borremans: Hallucination and Reality, Milwaukee Art Museum, Multiple Strategies, Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art’s great show, Out There: Landscape in the New Millennium, Toledo Museum of Art, Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre, with current art world darling Olafur Eliasson
Visual Overloadnew
How much would you pay for a poster advertising a recent rock show? Ten bucks? Twenty? Think again. A new era of rock poster appreciation has arrived, and with it, an entirely bizarre sense of economics.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
07-14-2005 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
Burning Man Festival Leaves Afterburnnew
For deviant bingo promoter Lawrence Phipps, the arts festival held in the Nevada desert has become a dangerous lifestyle obsession.
Fake Art, Real Moneynew
A scandal developed at Art Miami this year when a collector claimed that several Cuban paintings displayed by art dealer Ramon Cernuda are forgeries.
Miami New Times |
Kirk Nielsen |
05-03-2005 |
Art
A Tale of Tattoo Obsessionnew
Go to the gym. Go to the grocery store. Go to the office. Tattoos are everywhere. Movie stars have them. Athletes have them. Soccer moms have them. Today, the tattoo is just another accessory.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Coley Ward |
04-28-2005 |
Art
Men Still Aren't Welcome at Annual Art Shownew
Bill Russell, a 56-year-old chiropractor and acupuncturist, decided to flout the Venus Envy art show's only rule: that exhibitors must be female. He submitted photos of his work under the name Chalot Douglas-Book, and Venus Envy bit.
Riverfront Times |
Ben Westhoff |
04-26-2005 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
Capturing Crossingsnew
Alex Webb's photography shows a quarter-century of life along the border.
Tucson Weekly |
Margaret Regan |
04-21-2005 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
Architecture Critic Whacks New Lincoln Museumnew
Chicago Tribune critic Blair Kamin described the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum as a "mawkish indoor theme park," but he apparently failed to notice the exhibits that engulfed, enlightened and enchanted this visitor.
Illinois Times |
Dusty Rhodes |
04-15-2005 |
Art
Tags: Disneyfied
Playing Deadnew
Illustrator Mark Bodnar's paintings are haunted by toys and toons.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
04-14-2005 |
Art
Tags: Mark Bodnar, Sheetghosts
The One-Abe Parade of Springfield, Ill.new
Tony Leone's plastic Abe Lincoln was supposed to be one of 100, part of a parade -- like 1999's Cows on Parade in Chicago. But with Abes. That it hasn't materialized might be due to the concerns of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum.
Illinois Times |
Dusty Rhodes |
03-28-2005 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
Artist Wants to Build Holocaust Memorial in Phoenixnew
Landscape architect Bill Tonnesen believes his true purpose in life is to build a Jewish Holocaust memorial of worldwide stature. Critics scoff that his greatest talent is self-promotion.
Phoenix New Times |
Sarah Fenske |
03-22-2005 |
Art
Celluloid Superheroesnew
As the borders between comic-book panels and flat-panel screens disintegrate, writers are joining their fictional stars in making a successful crossover.
David Byrne ♥ PowerPointnew
Appearing in Seattle, Byrne jokingly referred to himself as a stand-up comedian, but the seminal musician is unapologetically seduced by the medium's immediacy and charmingly lo-fi properties.
Seattle Weekly |
Laura Cassidy |
03-09-2005 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
American Expressionistnew
The radical work of Fritz Scholder (1937-2005) spawned a liberating movement.
Tucson Weekly |
Margaret Regan |
02-25-2005 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
