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Beau and I were in New York (not city) in part to go visit one of his former instructors at a place called Cobalt Studios, an arts and education organization that both creates backdrops for professional theatres and also trains scenic painters in the art. We got a tour of the rustic facility, which is
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Although it sounds like some kind of supervillain or maybe a kind of hurricane-recovery clean-up service, Storm King is actually a very high profile outdoor sculpture museum featuring some significant works from the 40s-90s. Beau and I dropped in during our recent trip to NY, and we had the good fortune to visit with his
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come hear poetsPLUS OPEN MICartomatic solo stagejune 17, 19, 26 three big readings at dc’sall-free, all action, artomatic, by artists, for everyone get the latest here:comehearpoets.blogspot.com wednesday, june 17, 7-8:30 pmRichard Peabody (Gargoyle, Last of the Red Hot Magnetos)Maria Padhila (Capitol Cougar blog)Dallas Corsair (Z-Spot) friday, june 19, 9-10:30 pmRose Solari (Orpheus in the Park)Charles
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Again and again I feel disappointed in and embittered by the national and local dialogues about art these days. CONTEXTFirst, the bright side (whic is still pretty dim): when the NEA cut all of its fellowships to individual artists after the “culture wars” of the 1990s, the only two disciplines who continued to receive this
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Today I’ll spend the day in Glendale attending the 31st Southwest Arts Conference (SWAC), a gathering of artists, arts leaders, and arts administrators from across the state. SWAC always has an interesting agenda; last year, Cheech Marin provided the keynote and discussed pieces in his collection of Latino/Latina art, the largest collection in America. This
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When Mr. Hollander was considered for the award three years ago, some members raised comments he had made in interviews, reviews and elsewhere that they felt should be examined when judging his candidacy. In one example, Mr. Hollander, writing a rave review in The New York Times Book Review of the collected poems of Jay
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