'Pop Goes The Easel: Pop Art And Its Progeny' At Lyman Allyn In New London
'Pop Goes The Easel: Pop Art And Its Progeny' At Lyman Allyn In New London
A few years ago, sculptor Nancy Davidson started thinking about cowgirls, the embodiment of outlaw culture for girls growing up in the "50s and '60s. "These were women who did outrageous things, who had powers beyond women who stayed at home and …
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From Barbershop to Alien Rave, Anything Goes at Crown Heights Arts Space
CROWN HEIGHTS — On any given night, it could be an art gallery, a barbershop, a literary salon or a space-age rave — but whatever's happening behind the curtain at Franklin Avenue's open-access arts space LaunchPad, it's guaranteed to be unique. "We …
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Galleries Night: Prelude to Art Dubai
Galleries Night: Prelude to Art Dubai
As a prelude to Art Dubai, an extravagant annual showcase of the region's contemporary art scene running from 20 to 23 March and hosting more Arab artists than any other global art event, coordinated evening openings of more than 40 new exhibitions …
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Museums Go Shopping at Maastricht
MAASTRICHT, the Netherlands — Every March museum directors and curators from around the world flock to the European Fine Art Fair, held in a soulless convention center here. They come to look at the art, gauge …. It has such wall presence and will …
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Alaska women revive art of working with salmon skin
Alaska women revive art of working with salmon skin
Reed was a non-Native who gained a national reputation for contemporary art baskets made from fish skin. During a final illness, she asked Armstrong to take over teaching her classes. One of the items Armstrong brought with her is an ornamental wall …
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A Weekend Passport To Old-School New York
Even as the modern-day Big Apple excels in the ultra avant-garde everywhere from the fashion runway to molecular gastronomy to street art, the slightest provocation (the tinkle of a jazz piano, the glint off an Art Deco skyscraper) can send you …
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Fixated on Storytelling
On election night in Uptown's McKinney Avenue Contemporary, the second season of Oral Fixation opened to a full house. The night's theme was "Baby Steps"—an idiom in … Essentially memoirs onstage, the night strips down the fourth wall that so often …
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Turn your iPhone photos into wall art with Art.com's Photos To Art app
Turn your iPhone photos into wall art with Art.com's Photos To Art app
The fine folks at Art.com have been "helping people find the art they love, so they can love their space more" since 1998 — that's almost a century in Internet time. The service has long offered quality art reproductions of classic and modern works …
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'Off the Wall' student art show
The Portsmouth Music and Arts Center (PMAC) will hold its biannual student art showcase "Off The Wall" at its school at 75 Albany St. in Portsmouth on Sunday, Dec. 9 at 2 p.m. This all ages exhibit will feature at least one piece of artwork from every …
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Wind Data Becomes Smart Wall Art
Discovery News > Tech News > Wind Data Becomes Smart Wall Art. Wind Data Becomes Smart Wall Art. Analysis by Alyssa Danigelis Wed Nov 28, 2012 01:42 PM ET ( ) Comments | Leave a Comment. Print: Email. Friend's Name: Email: Your Name: Email: …
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GLAM event 'not your typical art show'
GLAM event 'not your typical art show'
And more than 70 vendors participated, offering off-the-wall goods such as coffin-shaped wooden purses alongside delicate metal jewelry. Many of the items were described as “upcycled” or “repurposed,” which Kruse defined as taking objects that have …
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Art review: Ted Ormai's magnetism takes over New Arts Program
He does not work out of a traditional studio with white walls and fluorescent lighting, nor does he use traditional art tools to make his sculptural pieces. Instead he works in an unheated barn next to his Kutztown farmhouse and uses industrial …
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Breckenridge store opens with a 'Flourish'
Tapestries hang on the walls, collaborations of thread and color, accompanied by paintings. Everywhere you look is a piece of art, and they're all for sale. Holly Stein, owner of Flourish and an artist herself, has filled her store with art and …
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Art exhibition gives voice to students affected by bullying
Art exhibition gives voice to students affected by bullying
You Will Rise workshop participants work on the group project Memory Wall, where they wrote the names they had been called by bullies.You Will Rise Project is giving a creative voice to student artists at a one-day show at the Columbus Museum of Art …
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New Liberty High Arts and Humanities Academy project will highlight …
In other public art news, local artists will be displaying original art from a variety of mediums at the Brentwood Community Center starting in January. The Public Art Wall program will allow local artists and art organizations to show their best work …
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Texas Contemporary Art Fair walks a fine line
Texas Contemporary Art Fair walks a fine line
Eric Beltz's "Revival Wall," presented by New York's Morgan Lehman Gallery, looks like a monumental cross-stitch project but is a drawing that fills a 9-by-12-foot wall. Of course, the real order of business at an art fair is sales. But Texas …
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Pam and William Campbell's Mid-Century Modern
Such is the studied translucence of Pam and William Campbell's home that, in the mind's eye, the Fort Worth gallery owners' collection of contemporary art and mid-century furnishings seems to float, independent of walls, within the light that …
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Review: Variation on Theme: Contemporary Art 1950s—Present
There's always some of the Dallas Museum of Art's vast contemporary collection on view, but it's more than a year since contemporary art has taken over the Barrel Vault – the spacious arched main gallery of the museum. Commentator Joan Davidow applauds …
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Turkish contemporary art goes to Middle East
Turkish contemporary art goes to Middle East
A metal wall sculpture by Lebanese-Palestinian artist Abdulrahman Katanani titled “Boy Flying with a Balloon,” will also go on sale. Other notable works include several pieces by the celebrated Syrian modernist Fateh Moudarres, … The third annual Abu …
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Contemporary night food street
With the décor depicting hints of modern art and a glass designed wall that changes colours, Le. Café Lounge (coffee shop), promises to provide a wholesome experience in terms of food as well as environment. The coffee shop gradually blends into the …
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Red Bluff Art Association adds to fairgrounds mural
Red Bluff Art Association adds to fairgrounds mural
Thanks to the hard work and many hours put in by several Red Bluff Art Association (RBAA) members, there is a collage of images spanning the 108 foot wall. During the 2011 fair, fairgoers saw a steer wrestler bursting out of the wall. For 2012, that …
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Downtown Alley Project Builds Twin Falls' Art Community
You had to look up at the far end of the alley to see the face of a black gorilla peering down from the red brick wall. Then there were some pieces that you couldn't help but notice, like the one with large protruding nails with red paint splattered …
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Supreme Court Justices attend annual Red Mass
"Wall Talk" – their newly released 680-page book – collected hundreds of photos of the wall art since the…More >>. A group of artists, photographers and a publisher have joined hands to preserve Egypt's graffiti. "Wall Talk" – their newly released …
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Local Artist Makes Politics Into Modern Art
Local Artist Makes Politics Into Modern Art
Political junkies have can hang a piece of presidential history on their wall thanks to the creativity two guys in Nashville. One local artist has created a modern art installation from a speech from the 2012 presidential race. Epic Frequency takes …
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It's art all right – but is it modern?
Cat-fights over what it means to make "contemporary" art have characterised the Turner Prize's 28-year history. Returning to … Just to drive the point home further, NON-CONFORMISTS is printed across the wall of her installation in giant letters …
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