Art

New sign installed for Las Vegas Arts District: Friday, November 20, 2009; By Kristen Peterson; 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.

Always in style: Wednesday, November 18, 2009; Fashion: Cher demands the spectacular for her show; design icon Bob Mackie delivers; By Jerry Fink; 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; By Dave Toplikar; 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.

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; By Kristen Peterson; Sean Russell is known mostly for his large-scale paintings and public art projects.

Artist’s exhibit hits pause button on Vegas life: Friday, November 13, 2009; By Kristen Peterson; 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 ...

A place to buy a piece of CityCenter style: Thursday, November 12, 2009; ART: Design center will feature works of notable artists, architects; By Kristen Peterson; 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.

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; By Kristen Peterson; 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; By Kristen Peterson; 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; By Kristen Peterson; The current exhibit at the downtown Contemporary Arts Center is not immediately accessible.

Longtime printer retiring -- for the fourth time: Wednesday, October 21, 2009; By Jean Reid Norman; 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.

Painting causing stir at UNLV: Thursday, October 15, 2009; It’s not an original, artist’s attorney says, and he’d like it removed; By Kristen Peterson; 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?

Sculpture at CityCenter's Aria designed to provoke thought about water: Tuesday, October 13, 2009; By Kristen Peterson; Artist Maya Lin watches as her 87-foot rendition of the Colorado River is installed behind the registration desk at CityCenter’s Aria.

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; By Kristen Peterson; 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: Friday, October 9, 2009; ART:; By Kristen Peterson; A child in a skeleton costume sits on his Big Wheel and shoots bubbles from a ray gun.

Robert Beckmann: The artist as a naturalist: Thursday, October 8, 2009; Oil landscapes available for public viewing Oct. 16 at Springs Preserve; By Mary Manning; 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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