Courtesy Nevada State Museum Las Vegas

A new exhibition at the Nevada State Museum may have been impossible without that human desire to reinterpret casino ashtrays and matchbooks as souvenirs. Fred Wasser on “Branding Las Vegas, 1941 to 1958 – Highlights from the Greeno Collection" for​ KNPR

"Centered' artist Miguel Rodriguez talks about his new installation I LV Weekly
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Review of Martin Kreloff and Diane Bush at Sahara West Library I LV Weekly
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"Edward Burtynsky: Oil"  features more than 50 large-scale color landscape photographs at the Marjorie Barrick Museum. It opens September  23 I UNLV 

SIGN DOWN. WE WILL REBUILD: 'Welcome to Downtown Las Vegas" sign toppled by truck Sunday morning. There is drive-by video of the aftermath. I Review Journal

Cuauhtemoc Sanchez.

Public Art Notes

100 'Sheroes' posed nude at the Republican National Convention for  photographer Spencer Tunick's “Everything She Says Means Everything." ​Huffington Post + ArtNet

How to meet a public art challenge by Bloomberg Philanthropies:  ‘Current: L.A.’ Brings New Art Projects to the City I NYTimes

KPCC ponders if Pokémon Go' can be a way to teach gamers about public art.

"How Women's Issues Are Shown in Street Art" by Eva Recinos for BUST

"Chinati, that mecca of minimalism, was launched by the late artist Donald Judd in the tiny West Texas town of Marfa. And this summer, (James) Irwin is about to be canonized in that small circle of artists who include Judd, Dan Flavin, Carl Andre and John Wesley. There's two wings of his art installation – a stark grey building around a central courtyard. Inside, long banks of high windows filter in the desert daylight in astonishing ways." KPCC

Make American Hate and Berate Again:

"In just eight years, the very idea of an everyday visual language has fractured in the ephemeral, fast-moving worlds of Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. " Political art in a very unusual year I NYTimes

A golden age for political satire. Every late night show seems to be camping at the RNC I NYTimes 

Jon Stewart will join Stephen Colbert's Late Show live episodes for the Republican National Convention I Hollywood Reporter.

Colbert started early by taking over the RNC stage to "open the games"  I YouTube

"How an angry national mood is reflected in pop culture" I LATimes

When the TRUMP SPENCE logo was revealed it did not go well. It was changed in a day I Politico + Wall Street Journal +  Time (and just about everyone).

"It's been worn, memed and burned: How Donald Trump's 'Make America Great Again' hat reflects a nation's anger" Carolina A. Miranda​ for the LATimes

Cleveland artists lay in wait for Donald Trump and the Republican convention ":to remind delegates of the city’s history of police brutality and racial segregation." I The Guardian

David Gleeson

“It took about 52 cinder blocks,” said David Gleeson, who with Mary Mihelic, built their version of a Trump wall. It's 20 yards from the US-Mexico border I NYTimes + Hyperallergic

All this hate. All we need is love:  Cirque du Soleil’s “The Beatles Love” show ended with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr stepping onstage together at the conclusion of Thursday’s official 10th anniversary celebration performance I LATimes

I loved the article on Ed Ruscha:  "one of the coolest, most clever, yet, even, most sincere artists of our time—a man who is at once SoCal’s quintessential Pop artist and among its most formidable conceptual artists" I Juxtapoz

For the Olympics, Brazilian street artist Eduardo Kobra will create a "3-thousand square meter mural, named 'Ethnicities' " I  PressTV  

Epic statue of Guan Yu​, ancient Chinese Warrior God,  stands over 150 feet tall I ​Popular Mechanics

Epic statue of an 18b robot unveiled as public art tired and leaning against a wall. I Paint This Desert