• Natural Landscape

    Albury artist Nigel Killalea exhibits Close to Home at Circa 1928 Art Hotel Albury | The Daily Advertiser

    information, regional-news, Rising up on the land in the Riverina, Nigel Killalea had an early affinity with the purely natural earth. Elevated on his family’s fourth-technology mixed farm at Mangoplah, Killalea was surrounded by lively landscapes, each individual featuring its very own tale of situations gone by. “I had the capability to see the land and interpret the land and browse the stories in the land that had been concealed or untold, no matter if indigenous or European,” he stated. Now an award-profitable landscape artist primarily based in Albury, Killalea’s paintings and drawings retrace his have journey, checking out habitation and abandonment in the landscape. “You will find so numerous…

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  • New Art

    Davenport-based Russell close to completing construction of new University of Iowa art museum

    After 14 years, the University of Iowa will finally have a new art museum again, thanks in large part to a Davenport-based construction firm and a Muscatine family. Pending final inspection, Russell Construction expects to complete the $36.8-million University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art in Iowa City and turn it over to the UI to move in on Dec. 23. Lauren Lessing, director of the Stanley Museum of Art, recently told the UI Staff Council that the 86,176-square-foot, three-level building is nearly finished and staff can start settling in in mid-January. Art will not move into the museum until April, and a ribbon-cutting will take place next September. “It’s really exciting…

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  • Beautiful Art

    Looking Close at the Fragile Beauty of Chinese Painting

    It often feels like early autumn in the Chinese painting galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The lights is warm but small the décor, wheat-beige and nut-brown. Irrespective of sparks of shade, the ink-and-brush paintings are visually subdued their illustrations or photos can be hard to browse from even a brief distance away. And though the galleries hold the museum’s lasting collection of Chinese paintings, no image stays for long. As opposed with Western-style oil painting — a hardy, meat-and-potatoes, survivalist medium — Classical Chinese portray is fragile. Normally carried out in ink on silk, it has two organic enemies: time and gentle. The danger is significantly less that…

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