(Visual Art, Houston) They put Stalin in the ground, mercifully, in 1961, eight years after he’d kicked off; the mustachioed lunatic had lived just long enough to murder, what, about twenty million of his own people? (Some go as high as forty million. Joey Stalin was an ambitious lad.) ...more...
Art News
The Crocker Art Museum Has Gone Fishing
April 26, 2012
(Visual Art, Sacramento) Claim that fishing is a cerebral undertaking in mixed company or casual conversation, and get ready for, at least, a look of abject doubt, and maybe some laughter. But what do you do when you fish? You find your spot, you drop the line, you look around at the terrain, and you think. ...more...
Third Edition of Foggy Bottom’s Public Sculpture Series Gets Underway
April 26, 2012
(Visual Art, Washington DC) Foggy Bottom is – what? Perfectly pleasant, yes, but – the State Department, the Watergate, the Kennedy Center for the Arts. And townhouses. Not, likely, the sort of place that someone who didn’t live there would be inclined to take a stroll through. The Foggy Bottom Association would like to change that… ...more...
ART From the Ashes Encamps in Austin
April 26, 2012
(Visual Art, Austin) In 2007, dozens of huge wildfires burned parts of Southern California so badly that afterward they looked like the surface of the moon, doing hundreds of millions of dollars in damage. Last year, unfortunately, Texas dealt with something very similar, thanks in part to the worst single-year drought in state history. ...more...
Mike Geno Lives in Philadelphia, Paints Cheese
April 25, 2012
(Visual Art, Philadelphia) He also portraits cured meats, but yeah – mostly Mike Geno hangs out in Philly and paints pictures of cheese. ...more...
‘I Spy’ Some Candid Photography at the National Gallery of Art
April 24, 2012
(Visual Art, Washington D.C.) The show, which features Bruce Davidson, Walker Evans and Robert Frank among a host of others, runs through August 5. ...more...
Odds of Fisk-Crystal Bridges Deal Get Much Better
April 24, 2012
(Art Museums, Nashville, Little Rock) Seven years of litigation and strife seem to be coming to an end now that the Tennessee Supreme Court has rejected an appeal that would have kept Fisk University’s Stieglitz collection in Nashville permanently. ...more...
Crocker Museum Gets Guy Rose Collection
April 23, 2012
(Art Museums, Sacramento) Roughly 40 paintings will comprise the Rose collection, along with writings and ephemera; the Crocker’s already got the first half-dozen on display. ...more...
Rare Bill Bollinger Exhibition Up in Long Island City
April 22, 2012
(Art Museums, New York) The seldom-shown Bollinger is due a reexamination; LIC’s SculptureSpace is attempting to do just that, through July 30. ...more...
Art Grows Like Kudzu in post-K New Orleans
April 22, 2012
(Visual Arts, New Orleans) As Katrina recedes into the distant dark past, new art is springing up all over New Orleans. ...more...
Museum Tower’s Light is Hammering the Nasher Sculpture Center
April 20, 2012
(Visual Art, Dallas) The condominium tower, built to entice people to live in the arts district, is instead making it difficult for the arts district to continue to be the arts district. ...more...
Exhibit of ‘surveillance paintings’ up at Denver’s Plus Gallery tonight
April 19, 2012
(Visual Art, Denver) William Betts’ Remote Sensing gets going tonight at 6; the show runs through May 26. ...more...
Cranbrook Academy of Art Exposes Its Grad Students
April 19, 2012
(Visual Art, Detroit) Cranbrook is throwing open its grad students’ studios this Sunday, beginning at 2. ...more...
New Orleans Museum of Art Explores the Nature of the Photograph
April 19, 2012
(Art Museums, New Orleans) “What is a photograph?” seems like a fairly straightforward question, until you start to unpack it. ...more...
Potential Trouble for the Chicago Cultural Center
April 19, 2012
(Visual Art, Chicago) This will hopefully turn into nothing, but some locals are a little concerned about the future of the venerable Chicago Cultural Center. ...more...
New York Botanical Garden’s ‘Summer of Monet’ Will Include a Pair of His Paintings
April 18, 2012
(Visual Art, New York) The NYBG is recreating Monet’s garden this summer, and they’ll have a pair of rarely-seen paintings of his on display as well. ...more...
The Canucks are Coming to Mass MoCA
April 17, 2012
(Visual Art, Berkshire Co.) The Great White North rides south in May for a summerlong residency at Mass MoCA, Oh, Canada. ...more...
The Dear Leader Does Marilyn at The Dunes in DC
April 17, 2012
(Visual Art, Washington DC) Song Byeok used to paint propaganda for North Korea. Then he almost escaped North Korea. Then he did escape North Korea, but only because the government thought he was going to die. Song Byeok is very much alive, however, and the fruits of his new freedom are up in DC through April. ...more...
Northeast Ohio Art Expo Roars Back to Life After Seventeen Years
April 17, 2012
(Visual Art, Cleveland) It’s baaaack. ...more...
Terracotta Warriors on the March to New York
April 16, 2012
(Art Museums, New York) Ten of the 2,000-year-old statues will form the centerpiece of the upcoming Warriors exhibition at Discovery Times Square; things get going April 27. ...more...
Relive the Horror of the Eighties at Atlanta’s Beep Beep Gallery
April 13, 2012
(Arts, Atlanta) A pair of up-and-comers on the Atlanta arts scene have given us The Ends, a multimedia look at the go-go-go-away Eighties that runs through April 28. ...more...
Kirkland Keeps it Close to Home with ‘Colorado Art Survey VII’
April 11, 2012
(Art Museums, Denver) The Colorado-centric exhibition, the seventh in the Kirkland’s ongoing series, runs through September 2. ...more...
A Small Rabindranath Tagore Festival is Underway in Chicago
April 11, 2012
(Art Museums, Film, Chicago) The city’s doing its part to elevate Nobel laureate and polymath Tagore to the prominent position that he so richly deserves. ...more...
Magnifying Glasses Required at Gallery 309’s Justin Duerr Exhibit
April 11, 2012
(Art Museums, Philadelphia) Justin Duerr caught some measure of fame last year for Resurrect Dead, which dealt with the mystery of the Toynbee tiles; Duerr’s own drawings, up now at Gallery 309, are no less mysterious in their way. ...more...
‘Red, Black and Green’ This Weekend at MCA Chicago
April 10, 2012
(Art Museums, Theater, Chicago) The brainchild of artist Mark Bamuthi Joseph, the multimedia show will run three performances this weekend beginning Thursday at the MCA. ...more...
