A place at the table
The Des Moines Art Center’s latest show in its print gallery is a reflection upon a short 1926 poem by Langston Hughes. “I, too, sing America” has 58 words. It [...]
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Posted September 06, 2017in Art News
Posted August 02, 2017in Art News
August celebrates the Iowa artist
“Shouldn’t Iowa be the subject of a show at the Iowa State Fair?” asked my granddaughter while looking at travel photographs from Spain, Mexico, Santa Fe and Eastern Europe. It’s [...]
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Posted July 05, 2017in Art News
Environmental collapse
Jordan Weber is a chronicler of environmental degradation and its effects on communities, particularly African-American communities. He has made quite a name, too, having been invited to big shows on [...]
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Posted June 01, 2017in Art News
Bullets shooting bullets
“Ruptures” is the title of the Des Moines Art Center’s latest show, through Sept. 3. It’s also a keyword in creative theory from Japanese aesthetics, to Hegel’s “Dialectic” and Arthur [...]
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Posted May 03, 2017in Art News
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 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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