The timing could hardly be better for re-recognizing her sculptural work that straddles art and industrial design
By Robert Raczka
May 22, 2013
Tie-in events include a comics festival and first-ever Reuben Awards exhibit.
You might figure professional cartoonists would be a wacky bunch, and you might be right. Yet when the annual National Cartoonists Society Conference lands in a town, most locals don't notice, any more than they would any other convention drawing 350 guests.
By Bill O'Driscoll
May 22, 2013
Art Reviews + Features
This is not the realm of staged art photography, but rather modestly tweaked photographic realism.
Continuum: Doug DuBois and Aaron Blum is the first in a projected series of contemporary photography exhibits exploring mentorship and influence — generally between teacher and student. Blum received an MFA in photography in 2010 from Syracuse University, where he studied with DuBois, and each is represented by selections from a recent long-term project focusing on a social group in a defined location.
By Robert Raczka
May 15, 2013
Art Reviews + Features
The timing could hardly be better for re-recognizing her sculptural work that straddles art and industrial design
Making the road trip to the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, in closer-than-I-remembered Greensburg, I expected small sculptures on widely spaced pedestals. Instead, I entered a veritable funhouse, an arcade-like gallery packed with colored Plexiglas and chrome constructions — some kinetic, some illuminated — that were originally futuristic and are now retro, as well.
By Robert Raczka
May 15, 2013
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