Two images of women and waterfalls: from the movie Brave, and in a 1926 watercolor by the artist Rockwell Kent. Implausibly, they feel like freedom.
Disney
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The world lost Thomas Kinkade more than a week ago, an artist whose importance during his life was measured by product placement and marketing prowess. Kinkade’s work always fascinated me,…
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FOCUS: KAWS at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy LewisBrooklyn artist KAWS hurls the onlooker into a cartoon’s daytime nightmare with effectively targeted film and television favorites, calling forth a sense of the unexpected that is fun and funny but also…
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Post Pop Punks at Cohn Drennan Contemporary
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy LewisPost Pop Punks proffers many stops in its pop culture parade/group program which, according to the press release, “incorporates popular cultural references, utilizes appropriation, co-opts historical icons, (and) exploits the…
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Somewhere between childhood wonder and adult disillusionment, Kelly O’Connor is creating a psychic landscape from fragments of familiar movies, TV shows, vacationlands and fairy tales. While she’s been making the…
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Glasstire audio slide show profiling Michael Bise. The artist talks about drawing from old movies, Disney vs. religion and why art should be hard.