by Sara Evans Musical or opera? Opera or musical? Ever since “Porgy and Bess” was first launched in 1935, the controversy has raged. But while critics have foamed and fumed ever since the birth of this American icon, audiences continue to flock to its successive productions. Its current iteration, “The […]
by Rose Lawrence On Saturday, June 30, 2012, Strawbery Banke Museum hosts the “Passion For Fashion Gala” including a Champagne Reception and Celebrity Designers Runway Show.. This event, a benefit to support the Museum’s education programs and preservation efforts, will take place under a tent on the Museum’s grounds at […]
by Isabelle Kellogg Luke Haynes hasn’t stopped quilting since he started toying around with small snippets of fabric on a sewing machine ten years ago. By now, he’s worked past his 100th quilt, many of which have been on view at recent shows across America, including his native city of […]
by Sara Evans Eighty-nine-year-old Ellsworth Kelly is one of the pillars of Abstract Expressionism, a major figure in both Color-Field and Minimalist painting. His abstractions are precise, tight and geometric, with color-block grids and intensely hued, hard-edged forms floating in space. But there is a softer, less well-known side to […]
by Ellen Edwards Cities are dynamic, their districts wax and wane, are hot or not. And nowhere is this fact of urban life truer than San Francisco’s SoMa, the district South of Market Street, the long street that slices all the way through the city, from Twin Peaks to the […]
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April 21st – May 12th, 2012 Opening Reception: Saturday, April 21st. 12-5pm Special in gallery broadcast during Freize Art Fair – Saturday, May 5th 2-5 pm 317 Tenth Ave, Ground Floor (between 28th and 29th St.) Open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 to 6 p.m. (Art) Amalgamated, a new project space […]
The third exhibition in the Museum of Arts and Design’s groundbreaking series exploring contemporary Native North American art, Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 features approximately 70 artists from Northeastern and Southeastern United States and Canada, who represent a new generation of Native artists that utilize contemporary techniques, materials, aesthetics, […]