Archive for May, 2008
Year of the Horse
Not only is it the year of Big Brown, the racehorse poised to win the triple crown, but the horse is also celebrated in the current exhibit at New York’s Museum of Natural History, appropriately enough called “The Horse”. The exhibition is an exploration of the evolution of the horse and the many ways humans [...]
Natividad Lives!
First I heard of the Starving Dog show was a week or so ago when I was asked to join “over a million people” in signing a petition protesting an art exhibit in Nicaragua which had taken place in August of 2007. The petition said a Costa Rican artist named Guillermo [...]
Look3 in Charlottesville
Charlottesville, Va is having a “Festival of the Photograph” June 12 through the 14th. Featured artists are Joel-Peter Witkin, Mary Ellen Mark, and James Nachtwey. Joel-Peter Witkin Mary Ellen Mark James Nachtwey Information at www.look3.org
Artomatic 08
Get a hundred grand or so, find a building twelve stories high, fill it with the work of six hundred artists, some say a thousand, let’s say an untold number of artists, schedule a number of parties, keep it open for a month, and you have ARTOMATIC, Washington’s biennial art funfest. It’s first come, first [...]
Gallery: Artomatic 08: What I liked
Brian Lusher Janet Gohres Jennifer Coster Kevin Mitchell Krissy Downing Matthew Smith Paul Walters Roberta Staat Susan Gow Amanda Engels