- 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 Arts
More KK2 video
April 30, 2008 – 7:08 pm
A clothing retailer called Karmaloop was at Kulture Klash and took this video. They asked me to post this video. It’s OK.
Follow-up to Kulture Klash 2
April 24, 2008 – 11:34 am
More than 1,300 people attended Kulture Klash 2, according to Olivia Pool, editor of ART Magazine and co-organizer of the event. A number of works of art were sold. And already another Kulture Klash is in the works.
“People are really hungry for new things,” Pool says. “Younger people are bringing new things whether the conventional […]
Going to Kulture Klash? Watch this.
April 16, 2008 – 8:51 am
Check out these guys using hi-tech to make graffiti art bigger and potentially more subversive. You can thank me later. -JS
The Gibbes’ Decision: Are we a museum of history or a museum of art?
March 25, 2008 – 9:43 am
That’s about as much as we know from Dottie Ashley’s solid report this morning in the Post and Courier about the sudden and unexpected resignation of Todd Smith after a mere two years as executive director of the Gibbes Museum of Art. First the news.
Ashley writes:
“Some see Smith’s departure as the result of a disagreement […]
This could be bad for the Gibbes
March 24, 2008 – 2:40 pm
Todd Smith is expected to resign today as executive director of the Gibbes Museum, according to the Post and Courier. Not much else is known except that the announcement will happen during a meeting of the board of directors, the people Smith answers to.
I’m frankly surprised. Smith’s 42, fashionable, driven, ambitious, and dynamic. Just the […]
The Gibbes’ Landscape of Slavery: the Plantation in American Art
March 3, 2008 – 1:07 pm
A years-in-the-making exhibit by the Gibbes Museum of Art that looks at American history by way of images of slave plantations is receiving critical acclaim.
Called Landscape of Slavery: the Plantation in American Art, the show is currently on display at the University of Virginia’s Art Museum in Charlottesville through April 20. It will return to […]
This should make the Gibbes wince a little
February 14, 2008 – 1:55 pm
The Gibbes Museum of Art has been thinking about building a new facility for a long time, because the current building, while historically and aesthetically valuable, is not an ideal (it’s not even a very good) space for showcasing the art works of the current century and last.
The completion, in 2006, of a $25 million […]
Journal: Street art is crap, he says
February 2, 2008 – 10:04 am
From the Times of London — J.S.
Do you like adolescent entertainment? Do you have the mentality of a teenager? Do you find Cézanne a bit overrated? If the answer is yes, yes and yes, then I don’t know what to do with you. You are a childish philistine literalist. Get down to Bonhams (one of […]
Review: The Halsey’s Red State Blues
January 22, 2008 – 10:30 am
The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art opened its first exhibit of the new year last Friday with Red State Blues, a showcase of S.C. artists concerned about the current state of politics in the Lowcountry, the Piedmont, and beyond. Kevin Murphy went to see the exhibit. He sent us this review. —J.S.
Bombs hang from the […]
