Unsheltering skies of infinity
The new round of exhibitions in the metro are intergalactic in scope, with dark humor, lawlessness and narrow examinations of the environment thrown in. Who knew that Andy Warhol made [...]
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Posted May 03, 2017in Art News
Posted April 05, 2017in Art News
Hottest medium ever
“Working Part Time at the Five & Dime” is the first thing that most visitors see entering Chris Vance’s latest show at Moberg Gallery. It is a painting of geometric [...]
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Posted March 01, 2017in Art News
Art Center taps a vein
Many of the famous quotes about gold diminish it. “All that is gold does not glitter” (J.R.R. Tolkein); “Health is real wealth not gold.” (M.H. Gandhi); “Happiness resides not in [...]
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Posted February 01, 2017in Art News
The strange beauty of Wild Life
Walter Hagen, who dominated golf in the early 20th century, was one of the most quotable athletes of all time. He’s credited for coining the phrases “No one remembers who [...]
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Posted January 04, 2017in Art News
Sex and violence, loud and ironic
Artist of the Year Larassa Kabel transcended Des Moines and her own work this year. She is best known for uber-realistic drawings and paintings — particularly of horses hit by [...]
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Posted November 30, 2016in Art News
Dreamy textures and covered bridges
What a season it’s been. In one month’s time, Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Chicago Cubs won the World Series for the first time in 108 [...]
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Posted November 02, 2016in Art News
A lot of good new shows
Gallery Night this fall drew big crowds. Most people credited the marvelous weather, but top-notch shows had something to do with it, too. Artisan Gallery 218 assembled a busy show [...]
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Posted October 05, 2016in Art News
Streets, guns and artists
Three exhibitions at the Des Moines Art Center present intermingled insights on guns, streets, documentarians and artists. The shows are relatively unheralded. The main attraction featured a recently discovered dead [...]
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Posted August 31, 2016in Art News
Ladies’ month in the art scene
Perhaps because, as Picasso remarked, artists are children who never grow up, the art world marks time to a school year calendar. Summer is for vacation, frivolity and fairs. September [...]
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Posted August 10, 2016in Art News
American mirth
Things are looking a bit more like business as usual again at Steven Vail Fine Arts. The second-floor gallery in the Teachout Building was inaccessible for weeks because of crime [...]
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