Black Stories matter at the Des Moines Art Center
“Black Stories” is the latest main galleries exhibition at the Des Moines Art Center. More than anything, it shows off the permanent collection of the museum. Secondly, it shows a [...]
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Posted November 04, 2020in Art News
Posted September 30, 2020in Art News
Classics thrive when not much is new
The art world lags behind the sports world in reopening — except in the public schools of Des Moines where they are recalcitrant to offer activities to the students. So, [...]
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Posted September 02, 2020in Art News
Art in the year of the virus and violence
The Des Moines Art Center has re-opened with some cute posters of famous pieces of art with people wearing those familiar baby blue masks that Hanes, the men’s underwear company, [...]
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Posted August 05, 2020in Art News
The Great Romantic
The world, even the U.S, has had time to adjust to life without packed crowds at sports events and to life without some sports at all. Yet the talk about [...]
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Posted July 01, 2020in Art News
The untimely and the most timely
The art world has traditionally had an off-season, usually summer. Before air conditioning, patrons and artists aestivated in the mountains while urban arts venues shut down. The Des Moines Metro [...]
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Posted April 01, 2020in Art News
Chris Vance growing up
Check websites before venturing out to the world that remains socially undistanced. CITYVIEW has been following Chris Vance for nearly 20 years now. His paintings attracted us with an affinity [...]
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Posted March 04, 2020in Art News
The sculpture wore lipstick
DMAC show is Karla Black’s first solo effort in the United States. Karla Black is an abstract 3D art sculptor whose work explores the physicality of materials as a way [...]
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Posted February 05, 2020in Art News
Deconstructed tractors
And Kooglians, who are not unfamiliar with Earth. Hedda Sterne’s “Imagination and the Machine” brings a great artist from the WWII era back into mainstream awareness. The Romanian artist, a [...]
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Posted January 01, 2020in Art News
The big, the small, the playful and the deadly earnest
They all share the stage at Moberg Gallery. The latest show at Moberg Gallery illustrates the diversity of that gallery’s artists. Three are showcased here. One spells her name entirely [...]
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Posted December 04, 2019in Art News
Revenge of the drag queen
Tales are told with irony, sarcasm and understated glee. “Of Our Time: Contemporary art by indigenous people from the permanent collection” is the latest show at the Des Moines Art [...]
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