For the past two and a half decades, the Reader has covered the Metro visual arts from a unique perspective revealed in this publication’s very title. We wrote about the various arts venues and the artists whose work they exhibited, but we wrote for our readers. Our job, not so […]
That 2018 climaxed with so much negative political, climate and economic news clouding holiday cheer, it was a relief to witness its demise. The ubiquitous “Happy Holidays” gave way to a heartfelt “Happier New Year!” Climate change deniers sparred with scientists despite rising global temps, tides and turbulence. The stock […]
Local artist Joseph Broghammer could have played it safe. When the Garden of the Zodiac Gallery offered him his current solo in the Old Market Passageway, Broghammer could have created yet another set of animal portraits not unlike last year’s Herd,a popular exhibit of beasts on the hoof. After all, […]
The six-year old Connect Gallery has dodged a UNl Med Center reno and its traffic issues at the venue’s 3901 Leavenworth address and will not close its doors at the end of 2018 as owner Tom Sitzman once feared. “Twenty-one months of the street being constricted by orange cones and […]
Omaha artist Ann Brugenhemke will continue to spread her “botanical delights” across the Metro landscape with her next exhibit at College of Saint Mary’s Hillmer Art Gallery from Oct. 29th through Dec 14th. After two successful shows, Widespread Flowering at Lauritzen Gardens last spring and Flowerbombs and Other Contrastsat Harvester Artspace […]
The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts’ major fundraiser, an annual Metro institution, returns this October, and despite a two decades long evolution, incrementally as well as experimentally, patrons might easily conclude: “the more things change, the more they stay the same.” Apparently that’s a good thing, given the popularity and […]
Making for a great day trip as autumn arrives, the 14thOmaha North Hills Pottery Tour opens this weekend, Oct. 6-7, as nineteen potters from both near and far gather to share their creative shapes and styles “as diverse as a wizard’s spells.” Spokesman for this annual event, Carol Dennison adds, […]
Artist Joe Broghammer has made frequent appearances in the former Moving Gallery in the past decade. Broghammer’s most recent occurred last March in the Garden of the Zodiac venue with a variation on his theme of animal rather than people portraiture. Favoring chalk pastel as his medium of choice, the […]
Darger HQ’s next dual exhibition, Slice, unites two diverse artists as well as their subjects as it fulfills this unique venue’s ongoing mission. Opening Friday, Sept.14, from 6-9pm, Slice features the work of Omaha’s Erin Foley and Michael Willett of Birmingham, Alabama as they use the implications of the show’s odd […]
With the Scott Frost Era on the horizon and what’s being heralded as “the most important mid-term election” in recent political history looming heavily on harvest’s horizon, the Metro art scene is revving up this autumn for its share of the action. The latter is not news as art has […]
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