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Wicked games with a 'Flick of the Wrist'
Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009 Defying the ultra-violent or fantasy-driven standard of most popular games, Baker offers titles like “Pro Yolk: Create the Perfect Egg” and “The Implosionist: Every Building Is a Puzzle.”
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Art
Trifecta's "minUMENTAL" showcases mini art, small pricetags
Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009 Chestnuts are roasting and Trifecta Gallery's minUMENTAL Invitational is bringing small art at small prices.
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Art
Art so perfect, it's painful
Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009 Grayson Ronk's graphite drawings are so exacting in their faint precision, to look at them is almost painful.
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Fine Art
Drink in "Drunk" art
Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009 Drunk is the perfect pit-stop for boozy tortured artists.
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Fine Art
Turning the page
Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009 Altered States takes an age-old object—the book—in bold new directions
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Art
Landscape exhibit pairs perfectly with Springs Preserve
Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009 Everything about Robert Beckmann: Elemental Landscape dovetails beautifully: luminous landscape paintings, the Big Springs gallery at the Springs Preserve, a breezy October morning.
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Culture
Anniversary present
Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009 How might a nonprofit contemporary art center kick off its 20th anniversary season? How about sharing the love, embracing the edge and inviting young artists to put on a show.
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Art
Drawn in?
Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009 Emanuele Sferruzza Moszkowicz. With so many consonants and so little time, the name says it all. That beautiful collection of letters is redolent of the artist’s pen-and-ink drawings, a multitude of exploding shapes and patterns that fill the eye and tickle the imagination.
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Art
Murals and more
Thursday, July 30, 2009 Hispanic Museum’s Mix It Up serves up sweet street flavors.
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Art
Digital integration
Thursday, July 16, 2009 Now, with swift manipulation, not only can Sarah Palin’s face be seamlessly Photoshopped onto the body of Ted Nugent, but a photograph can also be shifted to look like a painting. This is all rudimentary Photoshop, but where does it leave a painter of images?
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Art
Time of the Preacher
Thursday, June 11, 2009 As the Biscuit Street Preacher, Las Vegan Robbie Martin is a self-appointed, Southern-bred missionary casting a working man’s eye to the streets. In Pep Rally at Trifecta Gallery, the Preacher uses large-scale paintings to evangelize the everyday, sometimes with quite fantastical results.
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Art
Center yourself
Thursday, April 2, 2009 You might be tempted to drive by Left of Center Art Gallery & Studio—it doesn’t look quite like your typical Las Vegas gallery (whatever that is).
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Art
Housing new hope
Thursday, March 19, 2009 When one door closes, so they say, another door opens. In this case, the door opening is that of Ambient Art Projects.
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Art
Stripmuse
Thursday, March 12, 2009 Just when you think you know all there is to know about Las Vegas, you turn a corner and find something—or someone—new. In our deceptively tiny but ambitious art scene, fresh faces and ideas are a curious thrill, especially those that are hard to read.
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Art
Step into "Yo Mama"
Thursday, March 5, 2009 Yo Mama is a thought-provoking bear hug of a show enveloping us in its big, beautiful vagina.
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Art
"Seeing" is believing
Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009 The individuals assembled for You See are Left Coast art gods, key players in one of the many cultural shifts that erupted in California during the 1960s and ’70s: West Coast funk.
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Art
R.I.P. Water Street Gallery
Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009 A not-so-gentle reminder to support your local arts institutions: Adding to the recent list of shifting tides in the Valley’s art community is the closure of Henderson’s Water Street Gallery.
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Art
"Pleasures" in paint
Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009 Jeff Britton’s collection of paintings at Trifecta Gallery, Guilty Pleasures, is funny, saucy, irreverent and pop-y—sort of.
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Art
Flexible methodology
Thursday, Dec. 18, 2008 David Pagel’s December 11 lecture, timed in conjunction with the opening of LA Now—his newly minted curatorial effort at the Las Vegas Art Museum—was everything his writing portrays him to be: democratic, conversational and genuinely in love with art.
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Art
Now we're talkin'!
Thursday, Dec. 18, 2008 As if on cue for the holiday season, the Valley just got the best present ever: the Las Vegas Art Museum’s LA Now.
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Art
Home work
Thursday, Dec. 4, 2008 Visiting Tarissa Tiberti’s 3% exhibition at the Fallout Gallery, the phrase “you can’t go home again” is hard to shake. Especially considering home is a landscape in constant flux.
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Libby Lumpkin leaves Las Vegas Art Museum
Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008 Libby Lumpkin’s unexpected resignation as director of the Las Vegas Art Museum has dealt a shocking blow to the arts community. In three short years, Lumpkin turned a relatively conservative, if not provincial, institution into a vital contemporary art museum.
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Art
Won over by sparkly things
Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008 I cried at the Liberace Museum today. It was the story of Liberace’s final performance at Radio City Music Hall that did it.
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Art
Capital ideas
Thursday, Oct. 30, 2008 Artforum writer and California College of the Arts instructor Glen Helfand recognizes the whiff of desperation and the spit-shine of nostalgia in our declining empire.
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Art
Scotland and a guy from Cleveland
Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008 I have a nostalgic soft spot in my heart for two things: Scotland and Derek Hess.
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Art
In vacuum
Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008 Catherine Borg’s new exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Collective is scary. It’s called Untitled, the perfect name for an exhibition that relentlessly tackles the immense terror of nothingness.
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Art
You have to keep making things happen
Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008 In the seven years I have bounced around the Las Vegas art community, two things have remained consistent. One is that it is always “burgeoning.”
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Art
Fall A+E Guide: Visual Arts
Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008 Technically, it’s fall. While we may not experience the gentle turn of seasons, we are no exception to the “Hey, it’s fall! Let’s put on some fancy art shows!” vibe of most cities.
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Art
Badasses with heart
Thursday, July 3, 2008 The art handlers who work for MCQ Fine Art are badass—according to the postcard for their group show. The Difference Between Making a Living and Making a Killing is hardcore, and there’s even a skull and crossbones to prove it. Don’t let the act fool you, though.