Fellow RiNo Tom Diess of Walnut Street Woodworks has made it into the spotlight! Check out the article in today’s Post here. Amazing table! Congrats on the great press. Check out Tom’s website here.
Archive for February, 2007
Where Art is Made – Walnut Street Woodworks
February 15, 2007Art Landing… Art Lounge… now the Art Layover?
February 7, 2007
It’s arrived! The new “Art Layover” at Weilworks… Okay I’m a blogging dork, but I thought it would be fun for a little show and tell. So we started with the Art Landing on the second floor of Weilworks… then the famous Art Lounge was installed last year… and now!! we have created the Art Layover. Get it? Get the “airline theme?” huh? We do love Braniff around here. Oh yeah… also in the photo is a special appearance by Silo & Moose, the resident guard dogs.
Anyway, come on over and take a gander. We’ll be open for First Friday, March 2nd along with Ironton’s new show with our beloved Robin Schaefer!
RiNos lets have some show and tell! What’s new in your digs? 
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Lipski and Iron Et Cetera
February 2, 2007Michael Paglia writes in Westword about the Donald Lipski sculpture in progress at Ironton this month as well as the show in the gallery.
I like the show, especially in conjunction with the iron pour, it showed the breadth and depth of what could be done in the medium. If this survey is indictative of what’s done in iron, it seems to lend itself to found object assemblage. Putting disparate things together then casting as one peice seems very compelling.
Viva Riva!
February 1, 2007
Fellow RiNo Riva Sweetrocket just received a wonderful write up today in the Rocky Mountain News! So wonderful to see such a great artist recognized. See Article Here. Congratulations!
art at large
February 1, 2007I found this on The New Republic’s site , to read the whole article one must subscribe or actually, gasp, buy the magazine. Looks worth the effort.
The age of laissez-faire aesthetics? The New Republic’s art critic, Jed Perl, writes about the current state of the art market in this week’s issue in an article called “How the Art World Lost Its Mind.” Laying out an argument that recalls the high-culture/low-culture debates of decades past, Perl says today’s overheated art market has created “laissez-faire aesthetics” and takes a few swipes at current art world darlings John Currin and Lisa Yuskavage. “When the collecting of art takes on that familiar pop-culture buzz, we are seeing a diminishment of the variety of artistic experience, and this variety is among the glories of any culture,” Perl writes. “The biggest danger currently faced by people who love painting and sculpture is this unitary view of culture, which in practice amounts to the view that all culture is, or should be, popular culture.” (The New Republic)
