- John Stoehr
Arts Editor
There's more to art than you think. It's not just theater, paintings, books and dance. It's the enterprise of human creativity and it takes vastly different shapes and forms. Here you'll find my thoughts about the arts in Charleston and beyond. Neither of us knows what to expect.
Author Archives: Nick Smith
On The Other Side
October 11, 2007 – 2:40 pm
There’s only one week left to catch The Other Side, the Robert Lange Studios Upstairs show that features some of the best work from several galleries around town. Up till October 18 you can see a great variety of work there, including Nathan Durfee’s figurative paintings, Glenn Friedel’s effervescent abstracts, and a painting of a […]
New Fiction Writing Group
October 2, 2007 – 9:27 am
Some days I like to kid myself into thinking that I’m a real writer. On those rare occasions, I need to kickstart my tale-telling ideas. There’s no better way to do that than elbow my way into a writers’ workshop. So I toddled along to the County Library’s inaugural Fiction Writing Group on Sept. 11, overseen […]
Spark Studios Show
September 30, 2007 – 12:52 pm
Danny McSweeney, owner of Spark Studios and Gallery on Hagood, is devoting his space to his old mate Waseem Touma for Ipseity through Oct. 5. The two sculptors met at Kansas City Art Institute and McSweeney’s been looking for an excuse to show his work ever since. Touma’s art is so ambitious and twisted that […]
More PURE
September 28, 2007 – 8:42 am
PURE Theatre is well known for its hard-hitting, uncompromising contemporary dramas. But come November it will be taking a step back in time for The Tragedian, the first play that the company’s producing under a “PURE Historical” banner.
Originally, the theatre group planned to keep their modern-day and historical productions completely seperate. Then they realized that […]
IMAX No More
September 18, 2007 – 7:21 am
Last Friday I got an email from the local IMAX, telling me about all the cool that would be showing at the theatre through October. Transformers at the IMAX? I’d go see that. Dinosaurs 3D coming soon: an exciting film as IMAX documentaries go, with hungry dinosaurs coming right at atcha. So I was looking […]
Bestselling Charleston Author Passes
September 17, 2007 – 8:20 am
Farewell to Robert Jordan, who died yesterday from the rare blood disease, amyloidosis. The local writer - real name James Rigney - made the big leagues with his Wheel of Time fantasy series. He was only 58 years old.
Jordan was an integral part of Charleston’s literary scene, instantly recognizable with his beard, hat and glasses. […]
Makeup Classes
September 15, 2007 – 10:59 am
Halle Berry has Ivana Chubbuck. Tom & Nicole have Susan Batson. But while LA drama coaches are as common as drama queens, around here you have to look harder for a good acting teacher. Now help is at hand from Sheri Grace Wenger.
Her Midtown Productions organization will hold an Open House on Sep. 16 from 5-8 p.m. […]
Center for Photography
September 12, 2007 – 11:08 am
Jack Alterman’s Second Monday series is one of those things that I’ve always wanted to go to. Other stuff has constantly got in the way (deadlines, meetings, cable reruns… you know the kind of thing).
Every second Monday of the month at 7 p.m., Alterman invites a guest photographer (or two, or three) to his studio on […]
Art Meets Orchestra
September 10, 2007 – 3:24 pm
The Charleston Symphony Orchestra looks and sounds fancy, but it isn’t too proud to take a few hand-outs. On Thursday Sep. 13Â from 6 to 9 p.m., Rebekah Jacob Modern on King St. will present a night of art and classical music to raise money for the CSO.
Artists Donna Hurt, Eric Abrecht and Jennifer Shaw will […]
Remembering Rosalind Franklin
September 8, 2007 – 3:22 pm
Today’s the last day to catch Rosalind Franklin: Discovering DNA’s Structure at Smith Killian Fine Art Gallery on Queen. The short-lived show contains work by two collaborating artists, Clare O’Hagan and Denise Wyllie.
Franklin was a chemist who’s probably best known for her x-ray photographs of DNA. Her genetic research was some of the earliest and most […]
