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Iranian refugee artists find a new freedom in Las Vegas
Art Comments Updated: Jan 16, 2013 3:36pmThey 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
Art Comments Updated: Jan 09, 2013 3:46pmYOBANA 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
Art Comments Jan 02, 2013 5:06pmHours: 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
Art Comments Jan 02, 2013 4:48pmOn 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...
Artist Michael Barrett will do something unusual on Friday night
Art Comments Dec 27, 2012 3:06pm2012 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...
The Las Vegas art scene showed considerable growth and maturity in 2012
Art Comments Updated: Jan 03, 2013 11:28amA 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,...
Donkey Boy builds his dream house: At home with artist Michael Barrett
Art Comments Updated: Dec 26, 2012 5:09pmIt’s hard to imagine a better place for an artist to live and work than Michael Barrett’s small cottage at Casino Center and Coolidge, in the heart of the arts district. Here’s how he directs you to...
Review: Brent Holmes’ latest exhibit questions the changing worth of money
Art Comments Dec 12, 2012 7:02pmImmediately upon entering the 303 North Studio exhibit Crass Doesn’t Sell, guests are informed the currency in their wallets is not valid. Instead, they are offered the opportunity to exchange it for...
First Friday roundup
Art Comments Updated: Dec 12, 2012 5:01pmBRENT HOLMESCrass Doesn’t SellAttacking corporate consumerism and knocking the “sacred” act of art-making down a few pegs are not novel ways to shake up the establishment. However, it’s kinda hard...
First Friday Listings, 12.6.12
Art Comments Dec 05, 2012 4:52pmHours: 5-10p. Shuttle service: 4:30-10:30p. Free parking at the Clark County Government Center and the City Hall parking garage; $5 parking lots and free shuttles also available. For more info, visit...
