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Comics Reliefnew
A year ago, Seattle's Fantagraphics was on the brink of bankruptcy. Now it's in the black, thanks to good ol' Charlie Brown—and a pair of dogged believers who turned a cranky fanzine into the most widely respected comics publisher in America.
Seattle Weekly |
Michaelangelo Matos |
09-15-2004 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
Bitter Brewmeister Starts Rival Art Fair in St. Louisnew
Tom Schlafly says the Saint Louis Art Fair wrongfully banished his company from selling beer at the open-air art market, favoring instead sponsor Anheuser-Busch. This year, he's going to fight back by inviting artists to join him at a rival fair, Art Outside.
Riverfront Times |
Randall Roberts |
09-07-2004 |
Art
Artist Looks at 9/11 Tragedy from New Vantagenew
Artist Don Goede was in New York to gather debris from the fallen towers. Now he's in Colorado and has found the perspective to piece it all together.
Tags: visual arts
A Tribute to Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1908–2004new
Cartier-Bresson, who died on Aug. 3 at age 95, set a demanding standard for photojournalists -- an approach that required them to recognize and define content, composition, purpose, lighting, nuance and photography’s mechanical technicalities as a coherent whole in an instant.
Boston Phoenix |
Clif Garboden |
08-16-2004 |
Art
"Baltimore" Exhibit Comes to Baltimorenew
Isaac Julien's "Baltimore" installation brings great blacks to the Walters Museum and "Sweet Sweetback's" Melvin Van Peebles back to the streets.
Baltimore City Paper |
Eric Allen Hatch |
08-07-2004 |
Art
Artist Shows Censored and Uncensored Versions of Work at Two Museumsnew
For his new show, "Frenetic Engineering: censored/uncensored," artist Umberto Crenca is using two different museum sites to give audiences of diiffering sensibilities a choice.
Providence Phoenix |
Bill Rodriguez |
08-07-2004 |
Art
Ansel Adams: Environmentalist As Sentimentalistnew
Professional photographers comment on Ansel Adams' prophetic social agenda and artistic legacy in this review of "Classic Images: From the Ansel Adams Archive" at the Asheville Art Museum.
Mountain Xpress |
Connie Bostic |
07-23-2004 |
Art
No Rest Area Next 100 Miles: the Blue Ridge Parkwaynew
An art exhibition in Asheville, N.C., highlights the regional roadway with works by well-known painters.
Mountain Xpress |
Marsha Barber |
07-09-2004 |
Art
Van Gogh Exhibit Visits Seattlenew
This summer the Seattle Art Museum hosts a stellar collection of paintings by the Dutch artist and other modernists from the collection of Holland’s Kröller-Müller Museum.
Seattle Weekly |
Andrew Engelson |
06-08-2004 |
Art
Public Art Project Paints Aerosol Art in a Positive Lightnew
Under the Ceres Avenue bike bridge on Highway 99 near Chico, Calif., public art instills a nature-like balance to a concrete, stucco and blacktop civilized world.
Chico News & Review |
Jason Cassidy |
06-07-2004 |
Art
Dieter Roth Retrospective at Museum of Modern Artnew
Dieter Roth, whose life and anarchic sensibility veered wildly from his youth in fascist Germany, mocked the solemnities of his contemporaries with an antic art that still spoke constantly of mortality.
The Village Voice |
Leslie Camhi |
04-27-2004 |
Art
