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Women, Black, Latino and Asian artists help drive a mural explosion in West Dallas
Artists are making their mark in West Dallas away from the white walls of museums. They’re doing it through street art that showcases dozens of murals, many by women, people of color and others embracing the rebellious freedom of public murals and graffiti. Muralist Hatziel Flores is one of them. Street art “welcomes everyone. It never discriminates,” said Flores, a Mexico City-born artist. His latest work, a fusion of fine art and graffiti, features an indigenous woman in hues of purples and pinks with his Hatziel tag in cartoony lettering. It’s part of the curated cluster of work in West Dallas that has been expanding for years. “Street art is…
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Around the Town: Helena-area arts and entertainment news published Thursday, Nov. 25 | Local
Art ‘Found It!’ gift show opens at The Myrna Loy The Myrna Loy’s holiday gift show, “Found It! 100 Treasures Under $100” is now open at The Myrna Loy, 15 N. Ewing, and runs through Dec. 31. A variety of ledger art by Michael Fast Buffalo Horse is part of the “Found It!” gift show at The Myrna Loy. Photo provided “More than 25 artists have contributed to the show,” says artist and co-curator Amy Brakeman Livezey. Brakeman Livezey is among them, having contributed five small mixed-media, abstract figurative paintings. “There’s a nice variety of 2-D artworks,” she said, including landscape paintings by Barbara Rusmore, watercolors by Terry Cohea and…
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Navy veteran finds peace in photography
Our country’s heroes are all around us and with November as National Veterans and Military Families Month, we’re introducing a veteran who used to forecast the weather for the U.S. Navy, and is now finding peace through photography. Photographing birds is a fairly new hobby for Navy veteran Michael French, a man with a very analytical mind which works for an eye for photography, but was also perfect for his former job. “We don’t use percents. It’s not a ‘10{5b4d37f3b561c14bd186647c61229400cd4722d6fb37730c64ddff077a6b66c6} chance of rain today’. It’s not a ‘I think this’ or ‘I think that’. It’s, ‘It’s going to rain’ or ‘it’s going to rain at this time, the wind is…
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Artist Paul McCarthy Has Spent His Entire Career Shocking Audiences. His Latest Provocation: Dressing Up as Hitler
Two naked bodies hang, tied up by cables in the atrium of the KODE museum in Bergen, Norway. If you know the artist Paul McCarthy, you will recognize the male figure—it’s him, or at least, an image of him. If you don’t, a McCarthy show might be a shocking experience; those uninitiated into McCarthy’s practice might be struck by the grotesque nature of his works. For decades now, the LA-based artist has been mining popular culture, plucking out characters from Hollywood and the political sphere and drawing them out into works on paper, or sculptures and films. “Dead End Hole,” the artist’s first institutional exhibition in Norway, spans two large parts of…
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The stories behind the homes from your favorite holiday movies
Everyone wants to be home for the holidays. Not surprisingly, many Christmas movies are based around families getting together for the holidays. This has resulted in many of the most popular holiday movies being based in iconic houses. Whether it’s Macaulay Culkin being left behind while his family goes on vacation or Arnold Schwarzenegger trying to get the perfect gift for his son, many of these films were shot in real homes and locations. Home Alone The McCallister’s house in “Home Alone” is a real house located in Winnetka, Illinois. Fortunately, the area isn’t known for being targeted by bandits. The house has five bedrooms and four bathrooms. Also, none…
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Soundbites: Alex Toth Talks Death, New Father Figuer Single | Music News + Views | Seven Days
click to enlarge Courtesy Of Michael Aaron Leviton TOTH It’s been a long, winding trip since the days of gigging across Burlington for Alex Toth. The University of Vermont grad went from playing funk in John Brown’s Body and jazz with the Lazybirds to forming art-pop act Rubblebucket and later collaborating with artists such as Kimbra and Cuddle Magic. Though Toth and his Rubblebucket cofounder Kalmia Traver eventually separated as a couple, the band continues to thrive. The two have pursued solo careers, as well: Traver formed Kalbells,…
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