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Artnosh: The Virginia Center for the Arts: Virginia’s Arcadian Artists’ Retreat

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Are you hungry for some meaty text on art? The Virginia Center for the Arts: Virginia’s Arcadian Artists’ Retreat. Founded in 1971 in Charlottesville, by the writers Elizabeth Coles Langhorne (of the famed Langhorne family) and Nancy Hale who wanted to establish a retreat for artists where creative endeavors could unfold freely in a nurturing environment, the VCCA’s original board members also included the novelist Peter Taylor and the former director of the MacDowell Colony, George Kendall. Directed by ...

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Artnosh: Patti Smith's "Just Kids" Review

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Are you hungry for some meaty text on art? Patti Smith's "Just Kids" Review. Smith’s memoir, Just Kids. Opens with a scene of poignant synchronicity. She has come downstairs to find the TV on, airing a production of Tosca. She is transfixed by the aria, “Vissi d’Arte” (“I lived for art”). The phone rings and she knows before she answers it’s the call informing her that “the artist of [her] life,” photographer, Robert Mapplethorpe has died. Tall, lanky with dark mops for hair and large, arresting eyes, if...

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Artnosh: Photography American Style: Catherine Opie and William Eggleston’s Very Different Perspectives

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Are you hungry for some meaty text on art? Photography American Style: Catherine Opie and William Eggleston’s Very Different Perspectives. It turns out the highway overpasses are little gems. Opie makes such interesting choices, opting to capture these concrete megaliths using the rarified (and softening) platinum printing process and playing with their scale by choosing to produce such diminutive versions. I thought it would provide an interesting counterpoint to take in that. Just as Opie’s serie...

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Artnosh: Milton Grigg, Preservationist/Architect: a Quintessential Virginia Approach

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Are you hungry for some meaty text on art? Milton Grigg, Preservationist/Architect: a Quintessential Virginia Approach. Virginia Living 3.4 (2005): 146. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Raw Power: Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger. Photography American Style: Catherine Opie and William Eggleston’s Very Different Perspectives. 75th Whitney Biennial: No SIlver Star Here. Birth of the Cool: Barkley L. Hendricks. Five Themes: William Kentridge. Strikingly Cerebral- the Complex World ...

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Artnosh: Prison Reform: the Lorton Workhouse Art Center

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Are you hungry for some meaty text on art? Prison Reform: the Lorton Workhouse Art Center. The objectives behind the Workhouse prison were lofty: to “rehabilitate and reform prisoners through fresh air, good food, honest work and fair treatment.”. A self-sufficient work camp comprising a massive agricultural complex, the property would eventually expand to over 3200 acres with facilities for women and minors added. The original prisoners were nonviolent people, arrested for. In 2002, Fairfax County purch...

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Artnosh: Gibson + Recoder: Articulating the Material Substance of Light

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Are you hungry for some meaty text on art? Tuesday, April 28, 2015. Gibson Recoder: Articulating the Material Substance of Light. Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder (Gibson Recoder) have been collaborating since 2000, producing numerous expanded cinema installations and performances that go beyond the category of moving image to incorporate the visual, mechanical and conceptual qualities of film projection. I like the way that Gibson Recoder take something antiquated and overlooked like the camera obscura or...

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Artnosh: Kylie Heidenheimer

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Are you hungry for some meaty text on art? Tuesday, October 28, 2014. Kylie Heidenheimer arrived for her fifth residency at VCCA with work already begun on some of her pieces. “It’s what I like to do, to arrive with something in progress.” This ensures a relatively smooth segue into work without the added weight of a blank canvas staring you down from across the studio. And, as Heidenheimer points out, “You see things differently when you move them around.”. With these recent pieces, Heidenheimeris explo...

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Artnosh: San Francisco 2007

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Are you hungry for some meaty text on art? San Francisco's new Renzo Piano-designed. California Academy of Sciences. Building houses aquarium, planetarium and a rainforest plus countless living microclimate exhibits, laboratories and a substantial library all under a living roof that is both a green and symbolic gesture. The roof is extraordinary, forming two grassy domes that are studded with round skylights. It extends 30 feet out from the structure on all sides. Half-Life of a Dream. Standouts among t...

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Artnosh: Inside the Mind of the Master: Sketches from Michelangelo on show at the Muscarelle Museum of Art

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Are you hungry for some meaty text on art? Inside the Mind of the Master: Sketches from Michelangelo on show at the Muscarelle Museum of Art. The 26 drawings on display, which include studies for paintings as well as architectural plans and sketches, are from. The Casa Buonarroti in Florence, which houses the world’s largest collection of Michelangelo drawings. This important exhibition will be traveling on to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts after it closes in Williamsburg. The angles of attack as well as.