Iowa finds its niche
Some geographical coincidences are odd enough to make people wonder about genetic connections or if there’s “something in the water.” How else can you explain the number of baseball’s greatest [...]
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Posted September 16, 2015in Art News, Featured Story
Posted August 19, 2015in Art News
Sixth Avenue renaissance
Earlier this decade, rumors floated that American Enterprise Group (AEG) might leave its historic Sixth Avenue headquarters and move to the western suburbs. Des Moines City Councilwoman Christine Hensley recalled [...]
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Posted July 15, 2015in Art News
Road trip!
Kansas City museums are all in this summer with remarkable exhibitions targeted at specific interests. The magnificently restored Union Station (the nation’s second-largest train terminal after Grand Central in New [...]
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Posted June 17, 2015in Art News
What’s next for Des Moines?
The Des Moines Social Club celebrated its first anniversary in its permanent home recently. Nearly 10,000 people showed up one night as part of that anniversary. The next day the [...]
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Posted May 27, 2015in Art News
Changing attitudes
Fiber Sculpture 1960-Present, at the Des Moines Art Center (DMAC) through Aug. 2, includes contributions from 32 artists from four continents. Reassembled painstakingly in three different galleries at the DMAC, [...]
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Posted April 15, 2015in Art News
The Messenger
The Des Moines Art Center recently brought Nick Cave to town for a public conversation. An overflow turnout at Levitt Auditorium made one wonder if some folks thought it was [...]
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Posted March 18, 2015in Art News
Celtic lore and much more
Irish folklore from the pre-Christian era of bards and heroes has never been well served. Most of its literature was handed down orally, so few written records endured. Because the [...]
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Posted February 18, 2015in Art News
Allusions to the horror
“Field, Road, Cloud: Art and Africa,” at the Des Moines Art Center through April 19, takes its title from the works of Alfredo Jaar, an artist from Chile, one of [...]
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Posted January 14, 2015in Art News
Art Never Loots
On a cold Friday night in mid January, some 150 people crowded into a warehouse garage on the east side. The attraction was a one-night art show by Jordan Weber [...]
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Posted December 17, 2014in Art News
A very good year with more to come
The close of 2014 happened with a flurry of architectural promise. Demolition began on a several Ingersoll area buildings to make way for Des Moines’ first Fresh Market, a Whole [...]
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