Next year should be big for Des Moines arts institutions. In recent years, the Des Moines Art Center has worked to improve its collection of photography, particularly that of the early to mid-20th century. This era was often ignored by art museums but has now been embraced as not only an essential e
Bernay Fine Arts has curated an award-winning group of artists for its new "Winter Group Show," opening Saturday, Jan. 22, with an artists reception from 3 to 5 p.m.
Among the dominant found material in James Ellwanger’s new works is felt salvaged from casino gaming tables.
Moberg Gallery’s Winter Group Show offers artwork in many styles, shapes and colors. It features James Ellwanger, an artist known mostly for sculptures and public art. He also is a mult
In 1960, Fergus Ryan s father brought him, aged 12, to Dublin Airport to see the first Boeing 707 land. Ten years later, Ryan, an Aer Lingus pilot, was flying them. Then, having retired from the skies, he got a first class honours degree in Theology at Trinity College Dublin, but he always drew and sketched and in the 2000s he began to paint professionally as I wished .
His father taught him to look, to notice things , and Dublin was my visual theatre : the GPO s Ionic pillars, Bank of Ireland had both Ionic and Corinthian, the Custom House, Doric; the figures on the O Connell Monument. Jusepe de Ribera s wrinkled Saint Onuphrius in the National Gallery.