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‘Disco Inferno’ is an exhibit for our hellish summer

Jun 12, 2013 4:35pm
“Have we got it hot enough? The heaters are on and everything,” joked artist Matthew Couper. Summer...

First Friday listings, 6.6.13

Jun 05, 2013 4:42pm
Hours: 6-11p. Shuttle service includes stops and parking at El Cortez, Golden Nugget,...
<p>By Juan Muniz. Showing at 303 North.</p>

First Friday Roundup, June 6

Updated: Jun 12, 2013 4:52pm
Various ArtistsThe Greatest Show on EarthStep aside, Circus Circus. Blackbird Studios is...

Jesse Smigel sees the marketing potential of merging meme-friendly felines and familiar sci-fi imagery

Updated: Jun 10, 2013 5:11pm
Stretching across the curved surface of the right gallery wall, one encounters a banner...

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Shadow play: Artist Eva Steil’s light and dark

Updated: Jan 24, 2013 3:00pm
Remember playing with shadows when you were a kid? A sunny afternoon making you 12-feet tall, or a beam of light coming in from the hall at bedtime providing a stage for bunny ears, dogs and more?...

Damien Hirst exhibit to go downtown

Updated: Jan 24, 2013 3:01pm
In his typical, over-the-top style, iconocalstic British artist Damien Hirst unleashed a barrage of colored spots upon the world a couple of years ago, exhibiting more than 300 spot paintings...

Warm geometries: New work by Jose Bellver

Updated: Jan 24, 2013 3:01pm
“Geometry is something I always avoided,” artist Jose Bellver says. “I thought it was too cold.” Glance at the art above — clearly he’s gotten over it. There’s no chill coming off of the paintings in...

Poster design appeals to Joseph Woolfolk’s midcentury sensibilities and political beliefs

Jan 16, 2013 6:02pm
The first thing that strikes you upon entering artist Joseph’s Woolfolk’s live-in studio are the enormous glowing bulbs beaming down from the gray metal shell of a full-size streetlamp top, ensconced...
<p>Nanda Sharifpour / PHOTO: JEFERSON APPLEGATE</p>

Iranian refugee artists find a new freedom in Las Vegas

Updated: Jan 16, 2013 3:36pm
They weren’t “fired,” just told they didn’t have any classes to teach the following semester at the university where they were both tenured art professors. They weren’t “threatened,” just asked to...

First Friday Roundup

Updated: Jan 09, 2013 3:46pm
YOBANA GRACIANOIn FluxA butterfly folds into its gossamer casing and emerges as a brilliant new being. Likewise, humans pull their thoughts and strength into their core and may reinvent and transform...

First Friday Listings

Jan 02, 2013 5:06pm
Hours: 5-10p. Shuttle service: 5-11p, with stops and parking at El Cortez, Golden Nugget, Arts District hub (Colorado and Main) and the Clark County Government Center. Additional $5 parking lots can...

Selection criteria: Jason Adkins wants you to recreate works at his Cosmo exhibit

Jan 02, 2013 4:48pm
On second thought, Banksy wasn’t quite right.Henderson artist Jason Adkins — a painter known for his large, writhing abstracts and a sculptor known for arrangements of stacked boxes — was prepping...
<p>A scene from Michael Barrett&amp;#8217;s first Trifecta performance</p>

Artist Michael Barrett will do something unusual on Friday night

Dec 27, 2012 3:06pm
2012 was a bust-out year for performance art in Las Vegas. One of the vanguard figures in this vanguard movement is artist Michael Barrett. This week will see Standing Room Only: Episode Two, the...
<p>Jevijoe Vitug at London Biennale</p>

The Las Vegas art scene showed considerable growth and maturity in 2012

Updated: Jan 03, 2013 11:28am
A couple months back, L.A. Times art critic David Pagel, lecturing at UNLV, talked about the early days of the Los Angeles art scene and a “circling of the wagons” to protect the, at that time,...