- 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.
Category Archives: Visual Art
Attention visual artists: The $10,000 Factor Prize
January 18, 2008 – 9:35 am
This just in: Last year saw the creation of the Factor Prize, $10,000 pile of cash judged and administered by the Gibbes Museum of Art. It’s open to all artists, but would it be great if a Charleston artist swept the standings? —J.S.
From the Factor Prize website:
Established in 2007, the Elizabeth and Mallory Factor Prize […]
The politics of public art
January 17, 2008 – 4:14 pm
The next time someone tells you art is something extra, something to be added to the fundamentals of life, like jobs and education, point this out: the impending fight over the likeness of “Pitchfork” Ben Tillman at the State House in Columbia.
John Monk, a columnist for The State, characterized the politician today as “one of […]
Review: William Christenberry at the Gibbes
January 15, 2008 – 12:23 pm
This review will be in tomorrow’s paper —J.S.
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The Dark Room
William Christenberry’s brilliant photos don’t come to light
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With the publication of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men in 1941 with writer James Agee, a classic chronicle of the tribulations facing poor white sharecroppers during the Depression, photographer Walker […]
Journal: Art for Brains
December 28, 2007 – 2:20 pm
From The Guardian newspaper — J.S. |
Any onlooker fleetingly imagining they spotted a human brain in the flurry of cherubs and drapery swirling around the figure of God as he stretches out a hand to raise Adam to life in Michaelangelo’s famous fresco from the Sistine Chapel would probably conclude there was some malfunction in […]
Screen Printing 101 and Mr. Nick
December 19, 2007 – 10:37 am
Be sure to check out Nick Smith’s review of an old-school screen printing show at 52.5. The exhibit, set among racks of CDs and punk ‘zines, runs through Dec. 31. And while you’re at it, Mr. Nick has a new novel out called Undead on Arrival. The official launch party was earlier this month at […]
No Body Home in New Orleans
December 18, 2007 – 11:04 am
This piece in today’s New York Times anticipates a piece City Paper will run Wednesday on a photography exhibit by Donna Hurt. Displayed in the new gallery at the Art Institute of Charleston on Meeting and Market streets, Hurt’s show features a couple of dozen photographs (11 inches by 14 inches) that document the carnage […]
A Slideshow of The Eyes of War
December 10, 2007 – 2:29 pm
Our brilliant web editor Josh Curry built a fantastic slideshow of photographs by Jeremy Lock, Stacey Pearsall, and Jake Bailey, the three Air Force sergeants currently on display at the Center for Photography through the end of the month. The slideshow has dozens of images from Iraq and Afghanistan, and illustrates their experiences in combat […]
Journal: Doctor Satan Echo Chamber
November 12, 2007 – 6:35 pm
After writing about the Charleston Ballet Theatre’s Seven Deadly Sins, and in particular Jill Eathorne-Bahr’s drawing inspiration for her choreography from the magical fantastical work of representational painter Paul Cadmus (that’s “Lust” to the left), I came across this song. It’s originally by The Specials on the legendary Trojan Records, home of reggae. Last year, […]
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 […]
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 […]
