Fine Art

Lead Photo Won over by sparkly things

Danielle Kelly | Thu, Nov 20, 2008 (midnight)

I cried at the Liberace Museum today. It was the story of Liberace’s final performance at Radio City Music Hall that did it.

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Lead Photo Dray, his art head for Atlanta

Scott Dickensheets | Thu, Nov 20, 2008 (midnight)

For those who keep an eye on the arts district, Dray’s departure—for Atlanta—changes the metabolism of the scene a little.

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Lead Photo He’s not horsing around

Susanne Forestieri | Thu, Nov 13, 2008 (midnight)

Robert Curry’s motto, “one for the money, one for the love,” succinctly expresses his philosophy: Earn enough to eat, then feed the artistic soul.

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Lead Photo Interior designs

Susanne Forestieri | Thu, Oct 30, 2008 (midnight)

Judging by these small studies of interiors, it seemed that Mary Connelly had never lived in a home she hasn’t wanted to paint.

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Lead Photo Capital ideas

Danielle Kelly | Thu, Oct 30, 2008 (midnight)

Artforum writer and California College of the Arts instructor Glen Helfand recognizes the whiff of desperation and the spit-shine of nostalgia in our declining empire.

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Lead Photo Sixty-seven words about the work of artist Geoffrey Todd Smith

Scott Dickensheets | Thu, Oct 23, 2008 (midnight)

Abstract. Color-drunk. Pattern-happy. Spazzy! Occasionally pinwheelish. Doodle-reminiscent. Plausibly inspired by casino carpeting? Gaudy!

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Lead Photo Awash in history

William L. Fox | Thu, Oct 23, 2008 (midnight)

The Las Vegas Valley is a broad bowl that slopes gently to the east and south, and every molecule of water in the valley, if it doesn’t evaporate or soak into the ground, eventually flows downhill to end up in the Las Vegas Wash.

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Lead Photo Scotland and a guy from Cleveland

Danielle Kelly | Thu, Oct 16, 2008 (midnight)

I have a nostalgic soft spot in my heart for two things: Scotland and Derek Hess.

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Lead Photo Giving the gift of art

Stacy J. Willis | Thu, Oct 16, 2008 (midnight)

Very fine works on paper. Smaller sculptures. Prints. Fifty such works by notable contemporary artists were gifted to the Las Vegas Art Museum this week.

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Lead Photo In vacuum

Danielle Kelly | Thu, Oct 9, 2008 (midnight)

Catherine Borg’s new exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Collective is scary. It’s called Untitled, the perfect name for an exhibition that relentlessly tackles the immense terror of nothingness.

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Up to the job

Jacob Coakley | Thu, Oct 2, 2008 (midnight)

The ravings of a right-wing senator’s office staff become ever more harried as they examine seven unnatural, disgusting, yet utterly hot photographs that have been delivered to the office, trying to determine if they are, in fact, pornographic pictures at all.

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Lead Photo Who said being good was easy?

Susanne Forestieri | Thu, Oct 2, 2008 (midnight)

Please note: “This show intended for mature audiences only,” but don’t get too excited. Curators Wendy Kveck and Danielle Kelly were determined to stimulate your brain, not your gonads.

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Lead Photo Duel citizens

Aaron Thompson | Thu, Sep 25, 2008 (midnight)

It’s 5 p.m. inside the Water Street Gallery on a Third Thursday in August, and Henderson artist Chris Waters is making final preparations on one of his paintings. For Waters, it’s a strange and lonely homecoming. The 30-something artist hasn’t shown his work in downtown Henderson since his own city-subsidized gallery, the acclaimed contemporary-art haunt A6 Gallery, closed 14 months ago—a victim of high-rise condo economics.

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Lead Photo Taking a step up

T.R. Witcher | Thu, Sep 11, 2008 (midnight)

To say that the architecture of the UNLV campus is frequently ugly. . . betrays the lack of care that appears to have gone into making a place to inspire young minds. But in recent years, the architecture at the university has been moving forward.

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Lead Photo Street gospel

Susanne Forestieri | Thu, Sep 11, 2008 (midnight)

The Biscuit Street Preacher, aka Robby Martin, had to start his young life over many times, so reinvention comes easily, hence the pseudonym.

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A&E

‘A living gallery’
Co-directors Richard Havey and Gail Gilbert have created the Nevada Dance Project—a dance umbrella that offers the opportunity for contemporary choreographers and dancers to show their best work, new or preexisting, but always original.
Dray, his art head for Atlanta
For those who keep an eye on the arts district, Dray’s departure—for Atlanta—changes the metabolism of the scene a little.
R.I.P. TRL
MTV managed to pack Times Square one more time this past Sunday for the last episode of TRL, dubbed Total Finale Live, although nostalgia was pretty much the only reason for anyone to show up.

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Cocktail of the Week Nov 20, 2008
by Xania Woodman

The Capital Grille $1,000 Luxury Martini

What could be better than a martini and caviar? Nothing! Especially when the caviar in question is a limited-edition White Topaz and Diamond Caviar rope bracelet, served up with a ...
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