Exploring the Earth
A homecoming of sorts for Wagener Ellen Wagener is simply one of the best Iowa landscape painters ever. She often follows the Monet strategy of revisiting the same place at [...]
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Posted February 28, 2018in Art News
Posted January 31, 2018in Art News
‘Wanderlust’
The kind of show that would make my grandfather roll his eyes The Des Moines Art Center has hosted many exhibitions that could easily have been subtitled “Wanderlust.” Their retrospective [...]
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Posted January 03, 2018in Art News
Gold, bullets and cellophane
The year in review The year 2017 was a most eclectic one for the local art scene. Just consider the media that starred here this year. We had exhibitions made [...]
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Posted December 06, 2017in Art News
Real and imagined aspects of architecture
Amy Worthen’s works are both fantastical and architectural Amy Worthen is endowed by spirits from another age. As both an artist and art historian, she hangs around with ancient ideas [...]
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Posted November 01, 2017in Art News
Art is busting out all over
Art is busting out all over in Des Moines. As reported last month, the Des Moines Art Center’s new “Drawing in Space” show drew its largest opening crowds since Duane [...]
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Posted October 04, 2017in Art News
Celebrating architecture with tape
Three distinctive buildings designed by three brilliant architects The Des Moines Art Center boasts three distinctive buildings designed by three brilliant architects at a pivotal point in their careers. The [...]
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Posted September 06, 2017in Art News
A place at the table
The Des Moines Art Center’s latest show in its print gallery is a reflection upon a short 1926 poem by Langston Hughes. “I, too, sing America” has 58 words. It [...]
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Posted August 02, 2017in Art News
August celebrates the Iowa artist
“Shouldn’t Iowa be the subject of a show at the Iowa State Fair?” asked my granddaughter while looking at travel photographs from Spain, Mexico, Santa Fe and Eastern Europe. It’s [...]
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Posted July 05, 2017in Art News
Environmental collapse
Jordan Weber is a chronicler of environmental degradation and its effects on communities, particularly African-American communities. He has made quite a name, too, having been invited to big shows on [...]
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Posted June 01, 2017in Art News
Bullets shooting bullets
“Ruptures” is the title of the Des Moines Art Center’s latest show, through Sept. 3. It’s also a keyword in creative theory from Japanese aesthetics, to Hegel’s “Dialectic” and Arthur [...]
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