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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?

Neonopolis Art Center: Gone, but maybe not forever

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Amid rumors of poor ventilation, no air conditioning and canceled leases, the once-promising Art Center at Neonopolis is officially closing.