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November 21, 2009

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The 18b Arts District sign, made by YESCO for the RTC's Gold Line, was installed at a transit shelte
New sign installed for Las Vegas Arts District
Friday, November 20, 2009
Installed this morning on Casino Center Boulevard near Coolidge Avenue, the yellow, red, blue and white sign reads "18b Arts District" and is an interpretation of a logo designed about four years ago by the Las Vegas Chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts.
Bob Mackie says Cher has become harder to design for because she's worn so much.
Always in style
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Fashion: Cher demands the spectacular for her show; design icon Bob Mackie delivers
In an emergency, Cher calls Bob Mackie, the renowned fashion designer who has worked with almost every major celebrity in Hollywood during his 40-plus year career.
Chihuly coming to CityCenter
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
ART: Exhibition at Crystals to feature collection of artist's work
Soon more work by the artist who created the three-dimension glass sculpture in the Bellagio Hotel and Casino lobby will be coming to Las Vegas.
Artist Sean Russell starts working in his studio at about 4 or 5 a.m. and paints while listening to
A painter who explores nationalist symbols
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
People in the Arts: A weekly snapshot of creative people living in the Las Vegas Valley
Sean Russell is known mostly for his large-scale paintings and public art projects.
Photographer Ken Lamug says through his art, our stories are preserved.
Artist’s exhibit hits pause button on Vegas life
Friday, November 13, 2009
Street photographer Ken Lamug is bent on capturing life’s moments and places, knowing full well that in Las Vegas everything is ephemeral. A fitting example of the ever-changing Las Vegas is a photograph in “Beyond the Neon: Street Exposures” in the Image Gallery of the College of Southern Nevada’s Telecommunications Building. The photograph taken by Lamug shows a woman sweeping the steps of her one-story cottage home in a deteriorating neighborhood in downtown Las Vegas. She’s bent over, focused on her task, wearing a short floral skirt and sleeveless top. Next to her door, propped against her crumbling home, is ...
Michele Quinn, right, who oversees CityCenter's art collection, sits with Nicole Moffatt, who has be
A place to buy a piece of CityCenter style
Thursday, November 12, 2009
ART: Design center will feature works of notable artists, architects
CityCenter officials announced this week that a design center will be created to stitch together the high-end architecture, design and public art program at the $8.5 billion project.
Artist Noelle Garcia likes to work from old family photos, including those taken during visits to se
Noelle Garcia, visual artist: Art without faces
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
People in the Arts: A weekly snapshot of creative people living in the Las Vegas Valley
In her studio Garcia has a handful of decaying photos, Polaroids taken in the prison yard for $1 when she was a child and would go to visit her father.
A new way to look at books
Thursday, November 5, 2009
ART: In this electronic-information age, artists’ focus on literary medium is timely
Two art exhibits held in conjunction with the Vegas Valley Book Festival present books as art in ways diverse enough that the works could appeal to those not normally fond of the usual “book art.” “Inscribed/Messages” features art that is created mostly in book form. “Altered States: Artists Re-imagine the Book” features art created by using the book as medium.
On a shoestring, arts group strives to stay relevant
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
DAILY MEMO: ART: The Contemporary Arts Center, a fixture of the local scene for years, looks to remain on vanguard
The current exhibit at the downtown Contemporary Arts Center is not immediately accessible.
Longtime Boulder City resident Darrell McGarvey has been awarded the Alice Isenberg Advocacy Award i
Longtime printer retiring -- for the fourth time
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Darrell McGarvey always told his daughter Vicki that if she could get rid of the humidity and bugs in Austin, Texas, he'd consider moving there to be closer to her family. The bug situation hasn't changed, but as McGarvey, 76, has grown older, his arthritic joints seem to like the Texas humidity better than Nevada's desert heat. He is moving to Austin in November, leaving Boulder City behind after 29 years.
A painting thought to be by Frank Stella hangs in the lobby of Judy Bayley Hall at UNLV Thursday, Oc
Painting causing stir at UNLV
Thursday, October 15, 2009
It’s not an original, artist’s attorney says, and he’d like it removed
For more than a decade, UNLV thought it had a valuable Frank Stella painting hanging in the lobby of the Judy Bayley Theatre. The painting was something of a mystery. The owner, who loaned it to UNLV, died. Someone called shortly after to claim the painting, but never responded with proof of ownership. So there it hangs. Unsigned, undated, tattered and torn with a broken frame and no official provenance. Theatergoers pass beneath it. Professors have questioned its preservation — or lack thereof. Students study it. But is it really a Stella?
Artist Maya Lin is on hand as her silver sculpture of the Colorado River is installed Thursday over
Sculpture at CityCenter's Aria designed to provoke thought about water
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Artist Maya Lin watches as her 87-foot rendition of the Colorado River is installed behind the registration desk at CityCenter’s Aria.
Todd VonBastiaans, sitting in his gallery/lighting business, is exhibiting this month the work of La
King of all things vintage, kitschy and camp
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
People in the Arts: A weekly snapshot of creative people living in the Las Vegas Valley
The November exhibit at his new gallery, Alios, at 1217 S. Main St., which also houses his business, coincides with the Vegas Valley Book Festival and features the work of Las Vegas artists who created “Drunk, a Comic About Bar Stories.”
Ethereal paintings evoke feelings of longing, loss
Ethereal paintings evoke feelings of longing, loss
Friday, October 9, 2009
ART:
A child in a skeleton costume sits on his Big Wheel and shoots bubbles from a ray gun.
This is one of five 15-inch by 20-inch oil paintings created by Robert Beckmann of various views of
Robert Beckmann: The artist as a naturalist
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Oil landscapes available for public viewing Oct. 16 at Springs Preserve
When Robert Beckmann came to Nevada in the 1970s, he came wrapped as a rare creative species: an artist with a voracious intellectual appetite.
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