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If you build it, they will come ... back
July 12th, 2012
The frenzy of downtown revitalization is luring art curator and adviser Michele Quinn back to Las Vegas. Quinn, owner of MCQ Fine Art Advisory, moved to suburban Philadelphia in 2010 for her husband’s job, while continuing to oversee her business remotely. But traveling back and forth has gotten old, she says, and she wants to be back in the thick of Vegas’ urban renewal. Read more »
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Geek Chic
If you dig old-school comics, retro-games and nerdy nostalgia, Ninjabot offers a go-to wonderland
July 5th, 2012
He’s 31 and from Seattle. She’s 24 and from Argentina. Together the artists—engaged couple Arnel Baluyot and Estefania Rodriguez—are based in Las Vegas and work jointly under the name Ninjabot. The duo makes appealing pop culture-infused prints and posters by combining bold design and elegant rendering. Read more »
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Hyper-Linkage
Forking Paths takes art in an Internet-age direction
June 28th, 2012
The concept for the new show at the Contemporary Arts Center is cerebral in the extreme. Called The Garden of Forking Paths, the show’s title is based on the short story of the same name by Jorge Luis Borges, first published in 1941. Read more »
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Let Them See Cake
Wendy Kveck cooks up thought-provoking confection reflections of consumers and the consumed
June 7th, 2012
It’s the Sunday night of Memorial Day weekend, and the Cosmopolitan is so busy that you have to park down the street. Inside, the casino teems with the usual array of guests—all dressed to the nines, which means plenty of sequins, bachelorette sashes and tiaras. Read more »
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More Than Portrait-Deep
Emily Scott combines realistic nudes with incongruous backgrounds
June 7th, 2012
In her new show at Kleven Contemporary, Life Room-Blue Screen, Emily Scott paints nudes in a traditional, yet unidealized manner reminiscent of Lucian Freud, or perhaps Alice Neel. However, Scott’s colorful and irreverent backgrounds collide with the stodginess of the discipline, creating a sense of dynamism. Read more »
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Pop Goes the Anniversary
Henderson’s Pop Up Art House celebrates its first year with a show that bridges the coasts
May 31st, 2012
Pop-up art galleries have recently emerged as alternative art spaces, occupying otherwise vacant commercial buildings. Read more »
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Photos to Feast On
Artist’s Mandwich portraits capture personality within eroticism
May 17th, 2012
What happens when porn actors, performance artists, models, a photographer/filmmaker and Mother Loosy from Sin City Sisters get together in one cozy, master-bedroom-size space in Las Vegas? You get the opening night of Mandwich Redux at Sin City Gallery. Read more »
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The Illustrated Men
La Dubla arts collective celebrates the female form and male bonding
May 10th, 2012
What happens when you fuse zine culture with an art show? Read more »
Faces of First Friday
Into the ‘Bellmouth’ of Madness
Brent Sommerhauser installs a crazy sinkhole in MCQ Fine Art
May 3rd, 2012
The last time I saw Las Vegas artist and professor Brent Sommerhauser was four years ago in a gallery on the UNLV campus. His installation—an eerie, audio-enhanced, man-size tower of paper reams—had collapsed moments before I’d entered the space. The impact was so loud I thought a car had struck the building. On hands and knees, he retrieved sheets, struggling to re-create the original structure. Read more »
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Hip Hip, Monet
A 20-piece collection focuses on the French impressionist’s masterful use of light
April 19th, 2012
Acclaimed—but negligent. Forgive our scolding of legendary landscape artist Claude Monet, but his inviting, indelible landscapes lack one vital element: a magic doorway. You can’t step inside his wondrous compositions. Serious gyp. Read more »
