Category: Visual
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A Knockout Punch to Racial Stereotypes
Roger Shimomura’s art has never seemed more timely. In the wake of a vitriolic election season, with its red hot issues of populism, anti-immigration and racial bias, the veteran artist’s unique ability to pictorially blend wit and humor with themes of racism and the anguish it causes is right on target.
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Quixotic Scores a Hit with Dazzling Digital Projections
When is a far-out dance company far more than a far-out dance company? When it’s Kansas City’s Quixotic. The outer reaches of artistic possibility were never more palpable for Quixotic’s co-founder and creative director Anthony Magliano than in February 2016, when he and his multi-talented group of mind-blowers projected a landmark mini-movie on two sides of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.
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Domestic Disturbances
Themes of memory, loss, disaffection, and personal/political anxiety run through the Nerman Museum’s “Domestic Seen” exhibit featuring works by seven artists from New York to L.A. Drawings, paintings, photographs and films tell stories that reach beyond the domestic net that contains them here and resonate with larger cultural and economic issues facing American society.
