A colorful array of hundreds of ceramic bowls will be sold for $10 apiece as part of Transylvania's Empty Bowls Project.
To have, help and hold
By Heather Castro Contributing Art Writer
Last year, the economy was strong, the holiday shopping season brisk and carefree, and my dad made me proud. A self-made man, my father went from a childhood in the projects of Owensboro to working two jobs to support our family, to early retirement at 50.
An artful life leads back to Tomahawk
By Amy Wilson awilson1@herald-leader.com
On the night before his death, Tom Williamson ate a double portion of dinner "as if he were getting ready to travel."
Gallery Hop exemplifies progression of changes in art world
By Heather Castro Contributing Art Writer
Did you know that, not too long ago, horses were thought to have all four legs extended outwards at full gallop? This stretched-out pose was common in artworks (and can be seen by Googling Alfred Pinkham Ryder's eerie work The Race Track), but artists and the equine industry argued about its absolute truthfulness in depicting a horse's movements. Then, in 1878, pioneering English photographer Eadweard Muybridge captured a horse in full gallop using motion-capture photography techniques. It showed that all four horse hooves do indeed leave the ground, but they're tucked under the body. Known as The Horse in Motion, Muybridge's photographs changed the visual expression of the horse, conforming the active painted image to photography's frozen moment.
