Des Moines transcends the national gloom
Listen to the elite guardians of American culture, and you might think the art world is self-destructing. The New York Times writes that the Broadway musical is doomed — by [...]
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Posted December 31, 2025in Art News
Posted December 03, 2025in Art News
2025 – ‘It was a very good year’
The year 2025 was a very good one for Des Moines’ art scene. The news poured sweet and clear. Oyoram, the French-Israeli genius who now headquarters in Sherman Hill, installed [...]
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Posted November 05, 2025in Art News
Blood brothers — art and surprise
Last month, Steve Logsdon turned the sesquicentennial architecture of his Lucca café into evidence of a personal awakening. Two years ago, Logsdon told us it would be absurd to put [...]
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Posted October 01, 2025in Art News
The only constant thing in life
Change is running amok in the art world. Galleries have reigned as supreme discoverers and arbiters of new and great things since the 19th century. Now, that seems to be [...]
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Posted September 03, 2025in Art News
Des Moines’ time has come
September is a self-contradiction. It is our ninth month, yet named as if the seventh. It marks the end of summer and the beginning of the end of all things [...]
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Posted August 06, 2025in Art News
A tale of two companies
Des Moines supported the arts in record numbers this July, and not just for free stuff like Fourth of July Pops and various street festivals. We came about a new [...]
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Posted July 02, 2025in Art News
Firelei Báez delivers ‘the money shot’
The late Des Moines artist Don Dunagan liked to say, “Artists are somewhat cool, but art thieves get the hot girls.” He had a point. I asked my Internet Movie [...]
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Posted June 04, 2025in Art News
The original grand dames of Des Moines culture
One hundred years ago, Elsa Neumann, Gertrude Shloss and Elizabeth Cowles — the original grand dames of Des Moines culture — created Civic Music Association of Des Moines (CMADM) and [...]
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Posted April 30, 2025in Art News
‘Wherever this is’
“I’m about to give you all of my money, And all I’m askin’ in return, honey Is to give me my propers” – Aretha Franklin Des Moines gets little respect [...]
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Posted April 02, 2025in Art News
German domination — this time, it’s all good
The world edged a little closer to discovering what art is, thanks to the German court system. At least, Germany’s Federal Court of Justice determined what art isn’t — that [...]
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