Kristen Peterson

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Sex for sale: McCubbin’s exhibit looks at a driving economic force; Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010; Artist Laurenn McCubbin danced nude at the Lusty Lady in San Francisco, designed and illustrated writer Michelle Tea's call-girl memoir, Rent Girl, and toured with the Sex Workers Art Show. Now she's presenting her latest artwork at UNLV.
Is Vegas art-friendly?: Depending on who you talk to, not so much; Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010; Artists and gallery owners in the arts district have long complained that the city has been anything but helpful, that code enforcement officers harass them and that redevelopment money has gone into other Downtown projects, leaving the district behind.
Closed museum taking a hard look at UNLV: Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010; UNLV’s College of Fine Arts, with a growing art collection of its own, is in talks with the financially beleaguered and homeless Las Vegas Art Museum about placing the museum’s permanent collection on campus.
Getting a little Harry: Local classical quartet to perform piece by avant-garde composer Harry Partch; Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010; An odd little online feud, based entirely on a misunderstanding, took place in the music world last year. Involved: Beck, The Fiery Furnaces, Radiohead and 20th century avant-garde composer Harry Partch, who died in 1974.
Klezmer at a mama-lovin’ simkhe!: Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010; Little did violinist Lee Schreiber know when she formed Meshugginah Klezmorim in 1991 that klezmer music was making another revival in the United States and the new group had a hungry audience.
'A hospital for art': Emergency Arts to open its Downtown doors to creativity: Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010; The artists survey tiny exam rooms, nursing stations and X-ray areas, still showing medical residue - signs, surgical lubricant, hospital-room curtains.
Are you bringing the Vulcan ears?: Richard “Dick” McGee is taking his love of music - and a slightly geeky side - from the Philharmonic to Nevada Pops; Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010; Richard “Dick” McGee is taking his love of music - and a slightly geeky side - from the Philharmonic to Nevada Pops.
Motorcycle club takes on the art world: .. or is it the other way around?; Saturday, Jan. 16, 2010; Pickles is a badass, the kind of guy who might cut you for questioning his lies.
Garrison Keillor: A hometown companion: Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010; Nobody embraced Minnesotans or put them so accurately on the map as Garrison Keillor did.
Paintbrushes? Really?: An artist known for complex, funny work ends up making paintbrushes for the arts district's planned gateway sculpture; Thursday, Jan. 7, 2010; Artist Dennis Oppenheim has given the world wickedly funny, seriously dark, whimsical and often controversial works that teeter amusingly on the absurd. Since the '60s, his earth- and body artworks, performance pieces, machine installations, and public sculptures have gained international praise and been exhibited in New York's Museum of Modern Art and London's Tate Gallery, among other institutions. So imagine our surprise when we learned in 2007 that Oppenheim would create a sculpture for the gateway to the Arts District, and that it would consist of ... two paintbrushes, more than 45 feet high, emitting rainbow lights into the sky?