Sparkling new jewel in Sculpture Park
The John and Mary Pappajohn Sculpture Park received an early present as its fifth birthday approaches this September. Olafur Eliasson joined a list of 21 other celebrated artists in Western [...]
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Posted May 14, 2014in Art News
Posted April 16, 2014in Art News
Big birthdays for venerable institutions
This April in Des Moines, two venerable art institutions reached significant milestones with style. Civic Music Association (CMA) dropped the baton last week on its 90th anniversary season with a [...]
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Posted March 19, 2014in Art News
Jesper Just explores female travel
Filmmaker Jesper Just is a Københavner now living in New York’s East Village. The five films in his Des Moines Art Center exhibition “Jesper Just: This Is a Landscape of [...]
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Posted February 19, 2014in Art News
Then there were giants
Olson-Larsen Galleries’ current exhibition of paintings, drawings and prints by Byron Burford, Jules Kirschenbaum and Cornelis Ruhtenberg is a homage to three of Iowa’s greatest painters of the 20th century. [...]
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Posted January 15, 2014in Art News
Magritte’s apples and Cezanne’s oranges
Omaha is Des Moines’ great rival. The two cities have long battled for low fare airlines, parimutuel gamblers and amateur hockey titles. They share much in common. Both towns have [...]
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Posted December 18, 2013in Art News
The year of the really big show
This year has treated Des Moines’ art fans to grand-scale exhibitions. At the Des Moines Art Center, “Transparencies” gathered 10 artists from five countries whose works explored glass as both [...]
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Posted November 20, 2013in Art News
The nomad’s dazzling mysticism
El Anatsui, a Ghanaian born, Ewe-speaking man of the world, showed up for his media interview in Des Moines wearing a black suit, white shirt and athletic shoes as green [...]
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Posted October 16, 2013in Art News
Glories of the prairie and fall
September was packed with the pop art of capitalism, an Anderson Gallery exhibition of vinyl record album covers and a Faulconer show featuring the art of supermarket aisles. October seems [...]
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Posted September 25, 2013in Art News
Judge an album by its cover at Drake
Walking into the Anderson Gallery at Drake University is not like walking into an art gallery at all. It’s more like walking into a record store from 40 years ago. [...]
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Posted September 18, 2013in Art News
Nature good, humanity less so
Picasso remarked that artists are children who never grow up. Perhaps that explains why the art world’s calendars begin in September. For whatever reason, this month brings a bounty of [...]
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