Posted October 03, 2018in Art News
Des Moines Fashion Week returns the first weekend of October. The four nights of stylish events will be hosted at Mercedes Benz, Splash Seafood and the World Food Prize headquarters. Street wear, elegance, evening wear and a grand finale event are scheduled. This thing gets bigger every year. Fashion Week is the brainchild of Camille
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Posted September 05, 2018in Art News
Among the originators of digital printmaking and still pushing the limits of the genre Karen Strohbeen and Bill Luchsinger are two of the Midwest’s most successful living artists. They have been creating delightful stuff for almost 50 years, and plenty of people here have been collecting it for much of that time. They were
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Posted August 01, 2018in Art News
It’s not all degrading. Main gallery shows draw the headlines and the crowds, but the print gallery is where one finds the most educational stimulants. The Des Moines Art Center’s most recent show, “This Woman’s Work” (through Oct. 7), speaks to that point. Beginning chronologically with Winslow Homer’s Civil War nurses and factory workers, it
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Posted July 04, 2018in Art News
Salvaged submarines and the complications of ceramics Des Moines Art Center (DMAC) is hosting one of its biggest shows in years, certainly in the view of the art elites. “Sterling Ruby: Ceramics” does not disappoint despite its considerable hype. Ruby is an artist who works, thinks and dreams huge. He works with salvaged submarines for
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Posted June 06, 2018in Art News
Versatility and diversity dominate the art scene in Des Moines this June. Moberg Gallery is currently presenting a summer show with 12 artists from all parts of America and Europe. Justin Beller is a young Omaha artist best known for his shows at Anderson O’Brien in Old Market. He works
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Posted May 02, 2018in Art News
Three artists deeply involved with the natural expressions of the universe. Organic Forms, at Olson-Larsen Galleries through June 9, features three artists deeply involved with the natural expressions of the universe. Laura Berman, a Catalonian who now is a professor at the Kansas City Art Institute, spent several years in
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Posted April 04, 2018in Art News
University of Northern Iowa professor Gary Kelley is probably Iowa’s best known and most successful artist. The UNI grad has received awards from the New York Society of Illustrators including the Hamilton King Award in 1992, National Booksellers Association, Print Magazine, New York Art Directors Show, Los Angeles Society of
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Posted February 28, 2018in Art News
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 many different times to observe the subtle changes in a steady environment. She took a long sabbatical from Iowa to
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Posted January 31, 2018in Art News
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 on Henri Cartier-Bresson particularly comes to mind. That show was about the great photographer’s worldwide search for truth and meaning.
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Posted January 03, 2018in Art News
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 with gold, ballistics, asphalt, lion piss, brass knuckles, bones, hair, shoes, purses, fire, cellophane and Kapoor black, a paint that
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