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Founder Cindy Funkhouser on the First of a decades’ worth of Fridays
Art Comments Oct 03, 2012 6:50pmCindy Funkhouser, owner of the Funk House antique store on Casino Center Drive, was the driving force behind the first nine years of First Friday. It began as a modest art walk, put together with...
The Get Back: Midnight soulmate
Art Comments Updated: Oct 03, 2012 6:48pmFirst Friday isn’t the only noteworthy double-digit birthday this week. On the very same day, another downtown institution hits the big 1-0, one that played Pied Piper to Fremont East similar to the...
First Friday has a mixed economic track record for galleries
Art Comments Updated: Oct 03, 2012 6:48pmEvery First Friday for 10 years, hordes of teenagers and culture lovers descend on the 18b Arts District, migrating from gallery to gallery and weaving between outdoor vendors.But for galleries,...
First Friday roundup
Art Comments Updated: Oct 17, 2012 4:20pmJW CaldwellReading Between the LinesIconic phrases shimmer in the background while cowboys saddled upon sharks or dinosaurs ride past. Beasts pair up with classic clichés. Somewhere, in the collision...
Resident alien: Art that turns an outsider’s view of Vegas into rich allegory
Art Comments Sep 19, 2012 5:53pmTHICK.That’s the word that comes to mind as you scan walls lined with canvases laden with the dark, ornate symbology used by painter Matthew Couper. In Skins & Teeth, a one-night-only exhibit...
A brand new Barrick: The anchor gallery at UNLV gets a major renovation
Art Comments Updated: Sep 19, 2012 4:58pm“It was completely gutted,” explains Aurore Giguet, director of the Marjorie Barrick Museum, discussing the renovations to the Barrick’s main exhibition space. “Only the four outer walls were left.”...
First Friday Roundup
Art Comments Updated: Sep 12, 2012 2:38pmAaron NemecLess Popular MusicSinging in the shower and guitar solos in the living room tended to be intimate, usually private performances — until YouTube. Artist Aaron Nemec surfs the vast ocean of...
Fall culture guide: Art
Art Comments Aug 29, 2012 9:05pmMachina ex Machina II, Brian HenryIn his latest exhibit, artist Brian Henry introduces mortality to his machines. His previous show, Immortal Machines, produced an infinite number of images on a...
Artist Mikayla Whitmore talks about her work
Art Comments Aug 29, 2012 9:05pmForever No More, an exibit of large photographs by Las Vegas artist Mikayla Whitmore, is on view at the Winchester Cultural Center Gallery through Oct. 12. Using a minimum of Photoshop trickery,...
Studio visit with artist Eva Steil
Art Comments Updated: Aug 22, 2012 4:28pm“I’m schizophrenic,” artist Eva Steil tells me a few minutes after we meet. She doesn’t admit it, or confess it, or offer it with the slightest coloring of apology or concern for how I’ll react. (I...
