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Bringing Everyone In

Jan 28, 2021

Emphasizing social justice, Nuwu Art is much more than a creatives' co-working space

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Viva Las Burners

Jun 30, 2020

At AREA 15’s Art Island, Burning Man culture experiments with Vegas-style commercial spectacle

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Friday Photos: From the Ground Up

Jun 26, 2020

Snapshots of recent life in the valley, from the grass to the grassroots

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Friday Photos: Inspiring Vistas, Inspiring Dumpsters (!), and a Ghostly Strip

Mar 20, 2020

A survey of a Las Vegas Valley where life is changing rapidly -- but where beauty endures

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Pushing Back

Nov 27, 2017

In her art and activism, Wendy Kveck subverts the patriarchy, promotes the city’s arts scene, and gets unabashedly political.

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Awash

Nov 06, 2015

A view from inside the cockpit at a drive-through car wash.

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A bright idea on the Strip

Oct 05, 2015

If the visual tender of the Strip is spectacle — distracting, frenetic, desultory spectacle — then “Akhob” is the opposite of that. Its enveloping bath of light immerses, calms and unifies the faculties.

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High contrast

Nov 01, 2014

Photographer Marshall Scheuttle sheds light on the more chaotic side of Vegas — in a startlingly beautiful way

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The courage to look at my brain

Jan 01, 2014

Linda Alterwitz’s ghostly photos explore the intersection where science and soul meet — and sometimes clash

It was 14 years ago that Linda Alterwitz began suffering from the excruciating headaches. These lasted for three years, during which time doctors discovered a small tumor on her pituitary gland.

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A man in parts

Dec 01, 2013

In which we create a collage portrait of collage artist Anthony Bondi, whose work once captured — and helped define — the Vegas zeitgeist. What’s he been up to since?

Robert Hughes’ colossal art-history doorstop, The Shock of the New, tells us that collage, as a technique of high art, began with the Cubists early in the 20th century.

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James Henninger: The work of art

Jun 01, 2013

Talent? James Henninger scoffs at the idea. The secret to this painter’s growing profile: discipline, practice, work.

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Raze the roof

Apr 01, 2013

Iconic Vegas painter and muralist Robert Beckmann is back in town after many years away — with a fresh eye for a very changed city

“Have I told you about St. Thomas?” the artist Robert Beckmann asks.

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Double take

Nov 01, 2012

A second look at the revived LVAM collection in the newly reopened Marjorie Barrick Museum reveals new intrigues and pleasures

While working as a docent at the Venetian’s ill-fated Guggenheim Hermitage Museum, I had the strange and wonderful privilege of hosting student tour groups. Void of self-conscious ramblings, these tours were eye-opening: kids are astute observers and, truth be told, say the darnedest things.

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We choose you

Oct 01, 2012

Lots of artists “end up” here. Couple Matt Couper and J.

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Know Your Art: Claes Oldenburg's "Flashlight"

Feb 01, 2011

Flashlight, the monumental site-specific sculpture on UNLV's campus, is this city's most significant public artwork. And I might say the same if Flashlight were in Los Angeles, Seattle, or any number of other cities with reputations for fostering public art.

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Know your art: "Monument to the Simulacrum"

Jun 24, 2010

You may have noticed a jagged peak of steel and acrylic set off against the Mission-style architecture of the Historic Fifth Street School. This addition to the cityscape, located in Centennial Plaza at South 4th Street and Lewis, is a sculpture by Stephen Hendee titled, "Monument to the Simulacrum.

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