Danielle Kelly

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Art so perfect, it's painful
At its best, Ronk’s advanced technique achieves drawn-up perfection
Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009
Grayson Ronk's graphite drawings are so exacting in their faint precision, to look at them is almost painful.
Drink in "Drunk" art
Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009
Drunk is the perfect pit-stop for boozy tortured artists.
Turning the page
Altered States takes an age-old object—the book—in bold new directions
Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009
Altered States takes an age-old object—the book—in bold new directions
Landscape exhibit pairs perfectly with Springs Preserve
Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009
Everything about Robert Beckmann: Elemental Landscape dovetails beautifully: luminous landscape paintings, the Big Springs gallery at the Springs Preserve, a breezy October morning.
Camp Rodriguez Dead or Alive: sci-fi, elephant tusks and ... John McCain?!
Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009
Ominously lit and oddly campy, Dead or Alive, You're Coming With Me has a darkness that gives way to a playful sense of humor, sharp sociopolitical interest and a cool ’80s reverence.
Beautiful integration
12 + 7 demonstrates CityCenter’s synthesis of art and architecture
Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009
12 + 7 doesn’t reveal much—the exhibition plays its cards close to its chest, although we appear to be getting one helluva public art collection.
Anniversary present
CAC, UNLV’s MFA program team for flawed and fun twentytwenty
Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009
How might a nonprofit contemporary art center kick off its 20th anniversary season? How about sharing the love, embracing the edge and inviting young artists to put on a show.
Drawn in?
Moszkowicz’s New Work succeeds at root but feels haphazardly presented
Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009
Emanuele Sferruzza Moszkowicz. With so many consonants and so little time, the name says it all. That beautiful collection of letters is redolent of the artist’s pen-and-ink drawings, a multitude of exploding shapes and patterns that fill the eye and tickle the imagination.
Murals and more
Hispanic Museum’s Mix It Up serves up sweet street flavors
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Hispanic Museum’s Mix It Up serves up sweet street flavors.
Digital integration
Anfinson applies software to her work, with mixed results
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Now, with swift manipulation, not only can Sarah Palin’s face be seamlessly Photoshopped onto the body of Ted Nugent, but a photograph can also be shifted to look like a painting. This is all rudimentary Photoshop, but where does it leave a painter of images?

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Libby Lumpkin leaves Las Vegas Art Museum
Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008
Libby Lumpkin’s unexpected resignation as director of the Las Vegas Art
Museum has dealt a shocking blow to the arts community. In three short
years, Lumpkin turned a relatively conservative, if not provincial,
institution into a vital contemporary art museum.

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