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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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Posted March 05, 2025in Art News

Old masters and new worlds, with lawyers

This year got off to a slow start for art markets. Christie’s Old Masters sale, considered a bellwether for art markets in general, produced better numbers than last year but [...]

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Posted February 05, 2025in Art News

All is not as it seems

This month’s art news is filled with dreams, confusions and deceptions with lawyers going to court to argue that fake art is the same as the real thing it imitates. [...]

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Posted January 01, 2025in Art News

Jeff Fleming’s unbearable lightness of being

Jeff Fleming will kick off the 2025 cultural year in Des Moines Jan. 10 with an exhibition of all new works based on old family photos. Fleming paints ghosts and [...]

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