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 simply, was to cover the […]
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Pride & Prejudice
There have been various times in the arts of America when inclusivity has had recognizable momentum. During the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and ‘30s, creative giants in literature, music and the arts described and celebrated African American culture. Feminist, Black and Latino art movements sprouted in the fertile ground of the Civil Rights era […]
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Street Theater
When Michael Dressel sets out into the crowded streets of Hollywood, he’s not scouting for talent — he’s on the lookout for those small, rich moments of visual theater in the drama of the every day. The results of his recent perambulations are on view in more than 60 black-and-white photographs in the Garden of […]
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Pop Up Love
Though Wikipedia claims that the historic pop-up art event went “mainstream” in 2007 in New York City where space for exhibiting artistic work was very limited, anyone with first hand experience or knowledge of the Sixties will fondly cite you chapter and verse about similar “happenings” of a Hippie subculture. And anyone who experienced the birth […]
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Comic Con Report — Day Three & Four
The heart of Comic-Con is the exhibition floor — a Superdome-sized space jammed corner-to-corner with artists, retailers and showrooms for studios and toy/collectible manufacturers. Imagine if SXSW lined every musician in one room, and asked them to play simultaneously. That’s Comic-Con. When the floor reaches critical mass, the crowd is pressed together shoulder-to-shoulder, shuffling through […]
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Comic Con Report — Day One
Greetings from the center of the geek universe, San Diego Comic-Con, a black hole of color and light threatening to collapse in on itself. Arriving late on Wednesday, we skipped opening night where the exhibition hall throws open their gates and the feeding frenzy begins, conventioneers swarming to buy exclusive Comic-Con swag. Instead, I focused […]
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Child ‘Baring’
With the terrarium-like swelter of recent weeks, you might assume the current show at Darger HQ — Hothouse — was commissioned just for this summer in Omaha. But don’t expect to find tropical plants or Bikram yoga classes here; it’s a different kind of hothouse to which artists Elizabeth Kauffman (Salisbury, MD) and Luke Severson […]
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Bright Lights
The private doodles Ciara Fortun used to make have evolved into working sketches for collections she now produces for Omaha Fashion Week shows. After debuting at OFW with a formal women’s wear show in March, she’s unveiling a new collection of dresses inspired by her Filipino heritage in August. The 16-year-old Elkhorn resident and junior […]
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Bohemian Rhapsody
“Good morning. Would you like some coffee?” When you walked through the wooden double doors of the Antiquarium bookstore, you could hear these words– at any time of the day or night. They would have been spoken by the Antiquarium’s owner and founder, Tom Rudloff. Rudloff died on May 29th. The Antiquarium is one of […]
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Catching all the angles
There comes a time when you need some good laughs, considering how you could feel as if you’ve been walking down a dark hall with your flashlight full of dead batteries. That could be when you take a load off your tired toes and squeeze into a seat at the Playhouse. Why not give yourself […]
