Hick and Willie Discuss Their New PBS Show
Hick and Willie Discuss Their New PBS Show, ‘Art Talk & Chinese Cooking’ by James Cummins Hick: “You know that ‘Art Talk’ show you pitched to PBS? Are you sure? We’re critics. Can we tell people how to fix their art? We drink the milk—we’re not the cow. They’ll start us a new network: Wannabe […]
Geometrically Ordered Design: The Big Ten
Geometrically Ordered Design: The Big Ten By: Dustin Pike This is my tenth article pertaining to the design field and its relationship with mathematics. Design in essence cannot be accomplished without specific degrees of control, and almost always has a definitive point to make. How well the ‘point’ can be made is attributed to how […]
Kennedy Heights Arts Center Highlights Area Artists
Kennedy Heights Arts Center Highlights Area Artists By Laura A. Hobson A fanciful, decorated pig welcomes visitors to the Kennedy Heights Arts Center on Montgomery Road. A 19th century white building owned by Kennedy Heights’ former mayor Lewis Kennedy, the Center strives to be the anchor of an increasingly vibrant, diverse, inclusive and creative community. Originally […]
Letter from Chicago: Part I. “Picasso and Chicago: the Fearless Pursuit of the Modern”
Letter from Chicago: Part I. “Picasso and Chicago: the Fearless Pursuit of the Modern” Art Institute of Chicago, Feb 20 May 12, 2013 http://www.artic.edu/exhibition/picasso-and-chicago Questions flood the mind after seeing a stunning exhibition by an artist whose name is part of the cultural and popular vernacular. In this first of a two-part analysis, questions arise. […]
“Letter From Richmond, VA: ‘The Silent Strength of Liu Xia: Photographs’”
Letter From Richmond, VA: ‘The Silent Strength of Liu Xia: Photographs’” Amanda Dalla Villa Adams People recognize the name Ai Weiwei. From major museum retrospectives, such as Ai Weiwei: According to What? at the Hirshhorn, pop cultural asides, including Anish Kapoor’s mass staging of Gangam Style in support of Weiwei, and global media coverage, Weiwei […]
Letter from Phoenix
Letter from Phoenix Fran Watson I went for sunshine and got sleet, rain, and chill. Phoenix natives don gloves and earmuffs for their morning walks when the temps hit 60 degrees. The art made up for it all even though several art festivals were literally blown away by high winds. The entrance lobby and hallways […]
A Guest of YADDO
A Guest of YADDO a memory by Louis Zoellar Bickett When I arrived by car at YADDO, the artist/writer’s retreat in Saratoga Springs, NY, the 400-acre estate that borders the picturesque and famous Saratoga Racetrack, over a foot of snow had fallen. The estate, which makes up the famed colony, had a quiet that would occasionally […]
Girandola’s Sticky Art
Girandola’s Sticky Art By Maxwell Redder Duct tape drawings are an interesting concept: taking a material originally created for sealing the joins of metal ductwork, and using the different colors available to cut shapes and collage them into an image. Of course, the production of an array of different colored duct tape is a more […]
GORDON BAER at the Kennedy Heights Art Center
GORDON BAER at the Kennedy Heights Art Center Kevin Ott In his storied career, Gordon Baer has photographed the Beatles, Pete Rose, Larry Flynt and numerous other recognizable, iconic subjects. But, it is Baer’s photographs of the unknowns that are the heart of his great body of work. The Kennedy Heights Art Center is displaying […]
Profile: Tyler Wilkinson, Manifest Gallery Artist in Residence
Profile: Tyler Wilkinson, Manifest Gallery Artist in Residence Jane Durrell Tyler Wilkinson, Manifest Gallery’s first Artist-in-Residence, greets visitors to his studio at the rear of the gallery during every opening, an act of hospitality he clearly enjoys aside from its requirement for his year-long role. Tall and slim, Wilkinson has a ready smile, extremely […]