Archive for October, 2008
WHOOP DEE BOO TONIGHT
Costumes are always encouraged at Whoop Dee Doo The Urban Culture Project presents Whoop Dee Doo’s fall 2008 series of events and live filming in Kansas City, Missouri, starting Halloween night, Friday, October 31 at 9 p.m. at la Esquina, 1000 West 25th Street. For a $5 donation, Friday’s party features a Vampire Kissing Booth, [...]
CALLS & OPPORTUNITIES UPDATED
Public art projects, a dog show, Webinar, and other opportunities for artists to work and learn Review magazine’s Artist Resources page is updated continually. See the latest batch of ways artists can get involved with planned projects, learn about the public art process, or solicit their work for exhibitions. Many opportunities are in the Kansas [...]
OBAMA: A POSTER COLLECTOR’S PERSPECTIVE
Calling all parties to learn about art Tonight at 7 p.m., Kansas City Art Institute Professor and longtime collector of political posters Hal Elliott Wert speaks at the H&R Block Artspace, 16 East 43rd Street, Kansas City, Missouri. Learn more about Where? Where? Everywhere: The Obama Posters of Campaign 2008, which features a selection of [...]
MOVIE SEEK AND FIND
A review of Amanda Smith’s Threshold Leedy-Voulkos Art Center Kansas City, Missouri September 5 – 30, 2008 by Steve Brisendine Looking at the paintings in Amanda Smith’s Threshold is a bit like trying to get one’s bearings in a dream. There is a simultaneous sense of “I know this place” and “Okay, where in the [...]
PLUS SUMMER
A review of the final exhibition at a Denver gallery’s former space Tsehai Johnson, Exploding Carpet, installation view, 128″ x 105″ x36″, porcelain, 2008. Image courtesy of gallery Tsehai Johnson: Disorderly Andy Miller: Flat and Empty John Hull: The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories Plus Gallery; Denver, Colorado July 18 – August [...]
THE ACCUMULATION OF MEMORY
A review of a Kansas City artist in Chelsea: Grant Miller’s Constructed Realities Black & White Gallery Chelsea, New York City July 17 – August 15, 2008 by Blair Schulman As if our minds were a file cabinet bursting at the seams, the drawer labeled “retention” might be particularly protrusive. Kansas City artist Grant Miller [...]
BODY IS THE TEXT
A review of Carlyle Raine’s Landscape of the Figure Pi Art Gallery Kansas City, Missouri October 3 – 25, 2008 by John Hastings Carlyle Raine’s new work is a heady triangulation of paintings, small landscapes, and ab-ex collage charting the nomadic abjectivity of the body. Raine reaffirms and valorizes the primacy of the human figure [...]
FOURTH FRIDAY CALENDAR DIGEST
October 24-25 weekend visual arts events & openings Review Magazine presents its Friday visual arts calendar digest for the weekend of the 24th. Music, two fundraisers, several openings in Kansas City, Missouri, and Lawrence, Kansas. See a full calendar on our Web site anytime — updated continually. The American Institute of Architects also is hosting [...]
OCTOBER ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS
Architecture matters: Join the AIA-KC in ‘A Question of Relevancy’ The October 2008 issue of Review magazine is available now at these locations and at the Review, Inc. office. Focused on architecture’s intersections with contemporary visual arts, the articles this month highlight recent developments in Kansas City, such as the Missouri Bank & Trust project, [...]
THIRD FRIDAY CALENDAR DIGEST
Third Friday visual arts events in Kansas City metro This weekly digest of Review magazine’s online visual arts calendar includes Urban Culture Project and Columbus Park Third Friday openings and events, information about the Leawood, Kansas, arts crawl, as well as last chances to see a number of other exhibitions in the Kansas City metro [...]
REVIEW AND FRIENDS IN THE NEWS
Review magazine’s affiliated organization, Review Studios, has recently been featured in October 2008′s issue of Art In America. Several of the Studios artists were discussed in the six page article about Kansas City’s successful and growing art community. Pick up a copy at your local bookstore! Due to copyright restrictions, Review cannot release a PDF [...]
SECOND FRIDAY VISUAL ARTS
A weekly digest of the Review Magazine online visual arts calendar. This weekend offers the closing of the Follow the Dotte Artwalk season in Kansas City, Kansas, with a special celebration that includes a community gathering and announcement at 6 p.m., entertainment by the River Cow Orchestra until 8 p.m., and food vendors selling Wheat [...]
OCTOBER FIRST FRIDAY DIGEST
Plenty to see and experience tonight and this weekend Kansas City, Missouri’s Crossroads art district offers the usual and welcomed plethora of new and continuing exhibitions. Click “read more” and plan your evening, Saturday, and Sunday. Listings are updated continually in our online visual arts calendar.
PAINTING: BREATHING
An Architect Finds Creative Renewal in Art Line is a key quality in any work of art. Drawn or implied sight directors play off of each other, create space, and define forms to present balance and add movement to a composition. Pure lines, sections of theoretical points aiming infinitely in a single direction, can stand [...]
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