LINK + INK: LAST DAY OF SEPTEMBER EDITION

Courtesy the artist

​"Jubilation Inflation" is the Tamar Ettun's solo show at the UNLV Barrick Museum of Art, the anchor exhibition for the Second Annual College of Fine Arts Art Walk on October 12. "This is the culmination of the five years color project and the first time all four inflatables are shown together," says the artist on Facebook.  "The name for the exhibition is taken from a poem [On Orange] by Rose McLarney, who wrote me this beautiful piece about orange and let us include it."   At 6:30 p.m. College of Fine Arts Dean Nancy J. Uscher will toast Las Vegas arts community at The Barrick. The art walk goes on until 9 p.m. (The Beam hosts ¡Americanx!)

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​Photo: Jo Russ

Jo Russ "Desert Birdlife Soiree" opened at Delano Las Vegas. Her vivid collage work is now an installation that allows guests to interact in the lobby with this art-as-immersion experience. Runs through January. Instagram hashtags are  ​#jkruss #delanoartseries #desertbirdlifesoiree

Photo: Jo Russ

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Photo: PaintThisDesert

​The Studio at Sahara West Library is filled with works from James Stanford for "Shimmering Zen." The exhibition features his landmark digital collages that revisit neon signs and Las Vegas landmarks as a source (metaphor) of personal spirituality. Resource Magazine Online has an extensive interview with Stanford.

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Los Angles media covered "The Las Vegas Portraits Project, 1 October Memorial Exhibit" at Clark County Rotunda Gallery. "Artists from America and Canada and as far away as Greece and Peru chose their subjects based on news articles and photos published after the attack."  A special ceremony will be held on October 4. ​

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Geoff Carter interviewed Justin Favela during  his East Coast gallery tour. Las Vegas Weekly . ​

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Photo: The Neon Museum.

​The Neon Museum post the latest acquisition: The sign from the Red Barn. The history goes like this. " The Red Barn opened in 1958 as an antique store on Tropicana Avenue near Maryland Parkway and was converted into a bar in the early 1960s. By day, the bar catered to straight customers but served a largely gay clientele at night. By the early 1970s, it had evolved into one of the few openly gay bars in Las Vegas. The bar offered drag shows like the popular RB Follies and published the 'RB Bag,' one of the earliest gay magazines in Southern Nevada. The Red Barn closed in March 1988 and the building burned down several months later."

Photo: The Neon Museum.

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Photo: PaintThisDesert

​RETNA's large-scale letterforms are one of the leave-behind murals in downtown Las Vegas. My first pass to see new murals in the Life is Beautiful footprint reveals there are not many new works. No surprise since wall space is getting scarce. If you missed it, Bordalo II was interviewed via email by the LasVegas Review Journal, and a preview at Las Vegas Weekly that later confirms two projects were down after the festival ended September 22.

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A rare view of Mona Lisa without a car parked next to the chin. The mural is Dray Drizzle's latest addition to Downtown Las Vegas. 
​Photo: PaintThisDesert

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Photo: PaintThisDesert

​Jerry Misko's new mural Casino Center and Hoover in Downtown Las Vegas. The phrase at the end is "A Place in the Sun." I am guessing that is the title of this new "Misko."

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OUTSIDE LAS VEGAS

Above: Tagging with light.
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​- ModernMet compiled Instagram images from Burning Man 2018.

- The Nevada Museum of Art's retrospective on photographer Anne Brigman made ArtNewspaper
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- "Far from the established New York design world, California became a haven for avant-garde designers, a hub of innovation in both discourse and practice." West of Modernism: California Graphic Design, 1975–95 opens at LACMA

- Ai Weiwei is in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Times has a profile by Deborah Vankin and a review by Christopher Knight.

- The J. Paul Getty Trust now has the papers of the pioneering assemblage artist Betye Saar, and with that came the news the Getty Research Institute will begin The African American Art History Initiative - New York Times

- Grandest U.S. show to date of Victor Hugo drawings opens this week at The Hammer Museum.  It has an "unprecedented" number of loans from Bibliothèque Nationale (18) and Maison de Victor Hugo (25) I  Art Newspaper

​- "Art, science and skateboarding were the magic combination of interests that propelled Halloran into her life as an artist." James Daichendt on artist Lia Halloran, who began her residency at Lux Art Institute I San Diego Tribune

- Jean-Michel Basquiat's life to become a Broadway musical. "The production will have access to both Jean-Michel’s art and personal archives (which is likely to make for some pretty extraordinary sets)."  I ​ArtNet 

​- Projections on buildings became video public art.  Twice. Chicago and Los Angeles,

- ArtPrize Public Projects returned for its third year.

​- Dartmouth College to move a set of racially insensitive murals that offended Native American students to an off-campus storage facility I USNews 

- East coast writer takes a look at street art murals in Curaçao 'cause the weather is warmer there. I Forbes

-  You have seen it, but here it is again.  Brett Kavanaugh Senate testimony was mash-upped with Jules pre-hit speech in "Pulp Fiction." Samuel Jackson approved.

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FINAL NOTE

As seen on instagram. When critiquing a project using street art themes you must bring in qualified vandals. Sage Sage and Shawn Gatlin came to my 2D Basic class at UNLV to see student work  that are a response to campus safety (and a few other topics).  The work will seen during UNLV College of Fine Arts Annual Art Walkin undisclosed locations.