This weekend the Simsbury ArtWalk will take place from 11am-5pm in the center of the town on Hopmeadow Street (Route 10). This will be the first ever ArtWalk, and will not only display the talent of local artists but also will benefit the Simsbury ABC House, a nonprofit that provides education and aid to young men in disadvantaged school districts. Not only can you experience the wonderful work of local …more…
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Last Chance! Take Your Dad “Golfing” this Weekend at Laguna Gloria
May 14, 2012 by
If you haven’t yet ventured over to Laguna Gloria during this breezy Spring in Austin to check out the Art on the Green installation, take advantage before it closes this Sunday. The nine hole course is unlike any you’ve ever seen, featuring elegant, minimalist metal constructions, post-apocalyptic scenes of destruction, and a grotesque rodent-like creature the size of ice cream truck that is sure to amuse both the high and …more…
Environmental art has a story to tell
May 9, 2012 by
Shelly Leitheiser’s latest exhibit, “Kinetic Connections,” is currently showing at the WARM Gallery in the Minnesota Women’s Center. Aside from being powerful commentaries about the environment, Leitheiser’s paintings in this exhibit raise questions about art and politics.
"Erosion" by Shelly Leitheiser
For starters, Leitheiser’s paintings tell a story. That fact in itself draws the artist into a minefield. While narrative painting was once a popular and accepted style, 20th-century modernists refused …more…
Grand Center Art Walk 2012
May 6, 2012 by
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The Grand Center, St. Louis’ cultural arts center, is hosting its 2012 Annual Spring Art Walk on Friday, May 11, from 5 to 9 pm. Every year, the Grand Center hosts this celebration of art in its four blocks of galleries, museums, theaters, and restaurants. The Art Walk brings together art lovers all over the city for a joyous spring evening. Visitors can follow the 1.5 mile …more…
Simsbury Open Studio Tour: Catherine Elliott & Mandy Adendorff
April 30, 2012 by
On April 14 and 15 this year the Third Annual Simsbury Open Studios weekend was held. Artists opened up their homes and personal studios to the public, a rare and wonderful opportunity that I was very happy to be able to attend. There were a huge number of artists and this will be the second post in the series about the Open Studio Tour. The focus this week is …more…
‘Colorful Realms’ in D.C.
April 30, 2012 by
Living in Washington D.C, it’s easy to forget just how close I am to some of the world’s greatest art. I am literally a 30-minute drive from the fabled, but oft-publicized monuments and statehouses that comprise our nation’s capital. These neo-classical structures are themselves works of art. Seeing them on TV (and on currency) has somehow elevated them to a near-mythical status in my eyes. But, as I recently discovered, …more…
Slow Art Day
April 28, 2012 by
It started with food, and has finally reached the world of art. Yes, the global movement of all things slow is happening today, ala Slow Art Day. Of the 101 venues around the world, Axle Contemporary and SITE Santa Fe play host to this celebration where the creative boundaries and lines are blurred between “the people who make art and the people who look at it.” For the Slow Art …more…
Antiwar Art: An Idea Whose Time Has Come—Again
April 28, 2012 by
"The Volunteer" by Shelly Leitheiser
Social and political contradictions — a daily reality of life in America — are often tough to acknowledge, and most of us spend our days ignoring or denying the most egregious of them.
Take war. The hard truth is that war kills people, harms the environment, bankrupts nations, destroys international relations, endangers democracy and rarely solves political disagreements. Americans have lived with uninterrupted war for over …more…
Top 10 Picks for the St. Paul Art Crawl
April 28, 2012 by
"Mears Park" by Richard Abraham
It’s Spring—and that means art crawls! From Friday, April 27th, through Sunday, April 29th, hundreds of artists and art dealers will open their studios and galleries throughout St. Paul. Deciding which to visit can be daunting, especially if your time is limited. Here are my top ten artist picks (in no particular order)!
1. Jesikah Orman (Lowertown Lofts Coop 5th Atrium): works in mixed media on …more…
A View of America’s Past: Timothy O’Sullivan’s King Survey Photographs
April 25, 2012 by Leave a Comment
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri is known for showing works that have had significant impact on the American mindset. Its current exhibit of “The King Survey Photographs” by Timothy H. O’Sullivan is one such body of work. Taken between 1867 and 1872 as well as 1868 and 1869, the King Survey photographs were part of an exploration of land in Wyoming, California, Nevada, and parts of …more…
Top 10 Picks for the St. Paul Art Crawl
April 21, 2012 by
Mears Park by Richard Abraham
It’s Spring—and that means art crawls! From Friday, April 27th, through Sunday, April 29th, hundreds of artists and art dealers will open their studios and galleries throughout St. Paul. Deciding which to visit can be daunting, especially if your time is limited. Here are my top ten artist picks (arranged according to gallery)!
1. Jesikah Orman (Lowertown Lofts Coop 5th Atrium): works in mixed media on …more…
Simsbury Open Studio Tour: Julie Parker-Post & Jacie Jakubowski
April 18, 2012 by
On April 14 and 15 this year the Third Annual Simsbury Open Studios weekend was held. Artists opened up their homes and personal studios to the public, a rare and wonderful opportunity that I was very happy to be able to attend. There were a huge number of artists and so I will be devoting a couple of blog posts to their work, this week to Julie Parker-Post and Jacie …more…
Portland Photo Month
April 17, 2012 by
April is Portland Photo Month, an event which is not a product of any one organization, but rather a collaboration of art galleries, nonprofits and individual artists. Portland, Oregon is a city of artists and art enthusiasts and accordingly is home to a multitude of artists who express themselves through the medium of photography.
Numerous Portland art galleries specialize in photography. Among these are Black Box Gallery, Blue Sky Gallery, Camerawork …more…
Changing the Game: Nancy Jurs’s World Peace at Buffalo’s Burchfield Penney Art Center
April 17, 2012 by
Photo credit: Tullis Johnson/Burchfield Penney Art Center
Upon first glance, Nancy Jurs’s installation World Peace at the Burchfield Penney Art Center at Buffalo State College is a life-size game of chess. But is it really? There are the familiar components: the checkered board, the 32 game pieces. Beyond that, World Peace—in which the artist re-contextualizes ceramic works from earlier in her career—suggests new rules of engagement that break down the …more…
“Lucifer Rising” – Surreal, Symbolic Paintings by David Goodrich
April 17, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Image Credit: David Goodrich
When I walked into the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center(Kansas City, Missouri) recently, I felt a sense of surreal recognition, though I knew I’d never seen the paintings on exhibit before. Something about the style seemed so familiar to me, but I could not understand why. Setting aside my confusion, I set to enjoying the incredible work before me in “Lucifer Rising.”
“Lucifer Rising” is a collection of about …more…
In Our Element
April 6, 2012 by
Passengers traveling through Portland International Airport (PDX) in Oregon this summer should allow extra time to enjoy the series of rotating art exhibits that grace its concourses. From April 1 through October 15, 2012, PDX is featuring an exhibit entitled “In Our Element.”
The display includes sculpture by eight Pacific Northwest artists—most are from Portland—that represent the elements of fire, water, earth, metal and wood. The contributing artists are: Richard Cawley, …more…
St. Louis 7th Annual City-Wide Open Studios, Call for Artists
April 1, 2012 by
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City-Wide Open Studios is a week-long event, organized by the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, that takes place each summer in order to support local artists. This summer, CWOS will be in its seventh year, and will take place from July 24 through July 29, 2012. Artists all across the city will open their studios to the public to show off their work, interact with audiences, and discuss St. …more…
Open Walls begins in North Baltimore
March 31, 2012 by Leave a Comment
(Credit: Catherine Mezensky)
Open Walls is a new outdoor mural project in Baltimore’s Station North Arts and Entertainment district. Street artists from all over the world are painting 20 murals this spring and they hope to be done in time for the Final Friday event on May 25, 2012. The project will include notable artists from around the country, including Overunder, Maya Hayuk and Candy Chang. Murals are being painted …more…
Bill Viola’s “The Raft” Examines Human Reactions to Disaster
March 31, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Still from "The Raft"
Today in the Bloch Building at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, Missouri), I saw The Raft by Bill Viola, a 10 and a half minute video. The Raft begins with a diverse group of people waiting, as if for a bus. The group is a mixture of ages and races, both men and women as well as a transgender person. Filmed at high speed and …more…
Fine film or fine wine? April delicacies at Fort Lauderdale’s Museum of Art
March 30, 2012 by
Fort Lauderdale’s Museum of Art kicks off Spring with an event-filled month. The Museum begins April with an outdoor film event on April 5th followed by a tribute to Pinot Noirs at April’s Wine Tasting on the 13th.
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amid the street noise: short films on the terrace
Peck Sculpture Terrace
All Together Now anuncia el segundo evento de cine jurado con artistas locales. Películas se proyectarán …more…
Loyola Integrates Visual Arts into Lecture Series
March 28, 2012 by Leave a Comment
(Credit: Loyola University Maryland)
Each year in March, Loyola University Maryland presents another speaker in the Jerome S. Cardin Memorial Lecture series, “The Art of Dialogue: Jewish Christian Relations in a Post-Shoah World”. The responsibility for finding the speaker rotates between the school’s academic departments and this year it fell to the Fine Arts department. They selected Bjorn Krondorfer, an artist and professor of religious studies at St. Mary’s College …more…
New Britain Museum of American Art
March 25, 2012 by Leave a Comment
The New Britain Museum of American Art holds one of the most fascinating collections of American art in the country. Located on Lexington Street in New Britain, the museum has free parking for guests as well as free admission every Saturday from 10 a.m.-noon. Not only is the museum an excellent source for information about American art, it was “designated the first museum of strictly American Art in the Country”. …more…
Words and Pictures: “365D, Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Days of a Woman”
March 22, 2012 by
“365D, Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Days of a Woman” at the Icebox Gallery may seem like an exhibition of photographs of 365 Italian women. Indeed, there are 365 photos pinned to the walls of the tiny gallery in the Northrup King Building in Northeast Minneapolis. But the original intent of the project, the brainchild of creative director Marzia Messina, was to present an alternative view of women through their “photographs …more…
“From Thaw to Meltdown: Soviet Paintings of the 1950s-1980s” at The Museum of Russian Art
March 21, 2012 by Leave a Comment
The current exhibit at The Museum of Russian Art (TMORA) is a pleasure for the senses but a challenge for the intellect. “From Thaw to Meltdown: Soviet Paintings of the 1950s-1980s” presents a narrow view of Soviet art, focusing on the theme of industrialization in paintings during the post-Stalin era. This thematic restriction might give the impression that artistic subject matter in the USSR was severely limited during this time …more…
Minnesota – a Choral Mecca
March 21, 2012 by Leave a Comment
I have known for some time that the Twin Cities is a strong incubator of arts and culture. ...more...
