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2/26/2014

Blogging is a long road trip, so you have to prep well. From December to this past Monday, Paint This Desert went on a number of mural photo safaris, including the town of Overton in Nevada, and Victorville, Barstow, Coachella, Twentynine Palms in the deserts of California. Those trips added quite a bit of data to what was revisited and rediscovered in Las Vegas, Henderson, and Boulder City. Still waiting to be marked off the list before summer are trips into Pahrump, Nev., and Needles, Calif. Arizona and New Mexico are slated for Fall.

Flamingo Heights
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LOCAL

Leonardo da Vinci exhibit opens at the Venetian on March 12. [Las Vegas Sun]

Tickets for Burning Man sold out in 44 minutes. [The RJ]

Public Art panel held at Contemporary Arts Center. [LV Weekly]

This is new: An art gallery will house a pop-up CPA office for tax season. [Press-Release]

“Art for Art’s Sake” at UNLV’s Barrick is a “visual blitzkrieg.” [LV Weekly]

Las Vegas sex museum interruptus. [The RJ]

NOT SO LOCAL
“Loneliest Art Collection” about to leave town. [LV Weekly]

Monday Mural Musing: Link to ink

2/9/2014

Christina Angelina, the street artist based out of Venice, Calif., working on Life Cube Friday, Feb. 7. 2014. After the 24 by 24 wooden cube is completed by other artists, it will be burned March 21. Life Cube Project is the brainchild of Scott Cohen, the cubist of Burning Man.

Life Cube
Artists: Various

Parking Lot at Fremont, 9th, 10th, and Ogden.

Photo: Paint This Desert

LOCAL
Joe Schoenmann on "Life Cube," a street art project that will be taken down in Burning Man style. [Las Vegas Sun]

The Cube is looking for a few good artists. Facebook.

Abandonment of public space is a recurring muse. Kristen Peterson writes that Suzanne Hackett-Morgan’s paintings exude a “personal relationship between the Las Vegas artist and the land she has tread.”

Geoff Carter pens “Marty Walsh Talks About Trifecta Gallery’s 10th Anniversary.” [DTLV at Vegas Seven]

Two articles about downtown Las Vegas has that same reporter wondering “Why Can’t the National Press Get Downtown Right.” [DTLV at Vegas Seven]

Curator for upcoming “State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now” at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art has been poking around Las Vegas. “The art community was buzzing” writes Kristen Peterson at Las Vegas Weekly.

Band founded in Las Vegas is getting air play in Sochi .

National

From Crystal Bridges' website: "The process for selection of artists to be included in 'State of the Art' has been developed by a national group of curators, collectors, and other experts in the field of contemporary art. From an initial list of 10,000 names, this group has narrowed the search to 1,000 artists whose studios Crystal Bridges President Don Bacigalupi and Assistant Curator Chad Alligood are visiting in person. Of these, some 100 artists will be selected for the exhibition."

Would it have been noticed on the Strip? Lifelike sculpture of sleepwalker in nothing but underwear is spooking Wellesley College students. Sculptor is Tony Matelli. [WaPo]

The Guggenheim Museum has "a rare coup" by securing the first loan of Futurist murals from the central post office in Palermo, Sicily. [NYT]

Broad Museum opening delayed until 2015. [LAT]

Camilo José Vergara goes around the US and snaps photos of murals with President Barak Obama. Details in Daily Mail UK's "Obama in the hood."

City of North Las vegas

2/4/2014

In the City of North Las Vegas, some are thinking how art can help the city pull out from the recession through a visual and performing arts initiative funded by public/private partnerships. A steering committee met last week for the first time, says an art source.

With no set timeline, North Las Vegas city council will be presented with ideas, which one can assume would include public art. Council will ultimately make the decision if a new city-sponsored program is one way to catch up with Las Vegas and Henderson.

Beleaguered by lost tax base, and a threat of bankruptcy, as reported in the Las Vegas Sun, the city is open to any ideas that can help a recovery.

The local models are Clark County Arts Commission covering Southern Nevada, and the City of Las Vegas Arts Commission.

Even the City of Henderson is shifting around department duties that will allow their public art programming to grow.

Commissioning works with their own public art programming is McCarran International Airport and the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada (RTC). On highways, the Nevada Department of Transportation, runs their version of Public Art through their Landscapes & Aesthetics Program.

The Strip is outside the city limits of Las Vegas, and the dominate public art there is CityCenter's Fine Art Program.

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