Tag: Charleston City Paper
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Hurricane Floyd Follies
I know nature is not completely predictable, nor should it be underestimated, but possible hits from Miami to Wilmington make me wonder about these computer models. … The only damage was to the tea set I chose to take with us, as it fell out of the car while packing….
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Piccolo Spoleto’s Fiber & Light Installation
The work is ethereal, intangible, and ever-changing with no two viewings alike. … Edith Kelman is an artist from Atlanta who has been working with large, interactive sculptural environments for the last 20 years.
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Whoever Dies with the Most Toys Wins, Part II
I spoke with a Gibbes employee who was appalled by the exhibit and said that when schools came through the kids were thinking that this was a pretty strange thing: to be honoring wealthy men like Miles Brauton, who could pay Sir Joshua Reynolds to paint his portrait because he was “the largest importer of…
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Dake’s Imprints
With the body prints and the sculptures, Dake is exploring how we leave an ‘imprint’ on each other.
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Max Below Toledo Paris: A 50-Year-Old Eagle Scout?
“No negative. They’re all one of a kind. So it’s real-time. That’s the documentary part of it. There’s only one picture of the people we collaborate with.”
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Martha Jackson-Jarvis at Spoleto
Her use of herbs and seashells and images of birds symbolize nature, and her use of wrought iron in very flowing forms makes the iron seem very organic.
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Wolf Kahn Paints the South
Similar in subject to a Caspar David Friedrich painting of destroyed Gothic cathedrals. Barns seem to be of particular interest to him. Growing up in rural Ohio, I have passed many a run-down barn, and I must agree, they do have an inexplicable beauty.
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In Pursuit of Refinement at the Gibbes
Can’t you faintly hear him snickering at the Americans leaving his shores with their chachkas? There may not be much of the French Revolution in French porcelain figures, but an art retrospective shouldn’t be as ignorant.
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Art in the Age of Microsoft
New technology, like any other tool, can enhance or hinder a work of art.
Kristen L. Rhodes 