Summer shows sparkle
Moberg Gallery’s Summer Arts show demonstrates how much they have grown. Moberg Gallery opened a showing of the art and crafts of five local guys. Their current Summer Arts show [...]
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Posted September 01, 2021in Art News
Posted August 04, 2021in Art News
Paper pizza from Las Vegas
The most elaborate installation in years at the Des Moines Art Center runs through Oct. 24. Justin Favela is a 34-year-old artist of Guatemalan and Mexico heritage who was born and [...]
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Posted June 30, 2021in Art News
A new summer for the arts
The city would do well to christen this summer as the season of the Lauridsens. Summer used to mean aestivation for the arts. Music and gallery seasons began in September [...]
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Posted June 02, 2021in Art News
From architect to artist
Latest show at DMAC is “Manos” (hands), a study of forearms and cupped hands made after José Clemente Orozco’s own left hand was amputated after an accident with fireworks. The latest [...]
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Posted May 05, 2021in Art News
A superstar, a design star and a populist star
Julian Schnabel is a big deal. When asked about his recent acquisitions of Julian Schnabel works, Steven Vail, of Steven Vail Fine Arts, responded, “These are somewhat unbelievable to be [...]
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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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Posted November 06, 2019in Art News
‘Monument Valley’ is a perfect fit for Iowa
In her introduction to “Monument Valley,” the Des Moines Art Center’s latest exhibition, curator Laura Burkhalter explains why a show about the history and mythology of a Navajo Tribal Park [...]
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Posted October 02, 2019in Art News
Female artists dominate the galleries
“Kicking Abstract and Taking Names” The autumn art season kicked off with female artists dominating the galleries. Drake’s Anderson Gallery hosted “Women’s Rights Are Human Rights” with an accompanying poster [...]
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