Art in the year of the virus and violence
The Des Moines Art Center has re-opened with some cute posters of famous pieces of art with people wearing those familiar baby blue masks that Hanes, the men’s underwear company, [...]
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Posted September 02, 2020in Art News
Posted August 05, 2020in Art News
The Great Romantic
The world, even the U.S, has had time to adjust to life without packed crowds at sports events and to life without some sports at all. Yet the talk about [...]
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Posted July 01, 2020in Art News
The untimely and the most timely
The art world has traditionally had an off-season, usually summer. Before air conditioning, patrons and artists aestivated in the mountains while urban arts venues shut down. The Des Moines Metro [...]
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Posted April 01, 2020in Art News
Chris Vance growing up
Check websites before venturing out to the world that remains socially undistanced. CITYVIEW has been following Chris Vance for nearly 20 years now. His paintings attracted us with an affinity [...]
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Posted March 04, 2020in Art News
The sculpture wore lipstick
DMAC show is Karla Black’s first solo effort in the United States. Karla Black is an abstract 3D art sculptor whose work explores the physicality of materials as a way [...]
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