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Visual Arts Community
A peak into our local visual arts community. With the surprise cancellation of a high-profile spring art show, we hear about interesting gallery offerings, and how a tightening economy affects local painters, sculptors, and other art ...
Kermit: On the value of visual arts?
I feel strongly that the visual arts are of vast and incalculable importance. Of course, I could be prejudiced. I am a visual art" - Kermit the Frog.
2.17.08: Bethel Chamber Players at Bethel University
In a metropolitan area spoiled by two world-class orchestras, it’s easy to forget that the Twin Cities are full of first-rate classical musicians who play...
Brad Holland
New York Art World hosts a page of quotes from Holland on art and related subjects that, agree or disagree, are worth a listen. I particularly like his quote on “That’s Not Art, That’s Illustration”:. Almost everybody is an artist these ...
LitGraphic: The World of the Graphic Novel
The Norman Rockwell Museum, which should be very aware of cultural bias in the visual arts in the form of the “illustration is not art” bias that accompanies the “comics are trash” bias, has taken a good step toward promoting awareness ...
2.15.08: Chek It, Baby at Bryant-Lake Bowl
Reviewing theater on The Morning After is ruining my life. Saturday night, I saw Jade Esteban Estrada in Chek It, Baby, a one-man gay cabaret...
2.15.08: The Stones at the Children's Theatre Co.
If you have a teenager, especially a teenage boy, I cannot recommend emphatically enough that you unplug them from the XBox for a few hours...
Indigenous visual arts and craft resource directory 2006
This directory aims to support the Australian Indigenous arts and cultural industry and to make the exceptional depth and range of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artwork more accessible.
William Stout’s murals for the San Diego Natural History Museum
His terrific book, The New Dinosaurs is still available and is full of his wonderfully expressive paintings and drawings of dinosaurs, often done in a playful nod to the styles of other artists (Art Nouveau dinosaurs anyone?). ...
Jeffrey Metzner: 1941-2008
Jeffrey Metzner, head of the Motion Graphics dept at the School of Visual Art, passed away Friday, February 15th. While I didn’t know Mr. Metzner, he had a profound impact on many of his students. Here’s what one of them had to say: ...