A glimpse inside the work of Harlan Hubbard: lifestyle, landscapes and a love of nature
By Heather Castro Contributing Art Critic
PARIS — Though Kentucky artist Harlan Hubbard is known for his post-impressionistic vistas of Kentucky landscapes, his close-to-nature lifestyle reflects current ideas of carbon footprints and recycling. An exhibit of works by this solitary and celebrated artist, who had ideas half a century ago that are in vogue today.
Exhibit of drawings too diverse for its own good
By Heather Castro Contributing Art Critic
Appearances can be deceiving in art. Whether it involves medium or technique, a little play of surface or application can turn an ordinary work into something surprising, forcing the viewer to regard the innocuous in a new light.
Explorium's new boss looks for more fun
By Cheryl Truman ctruman@herald-leader.com
Michael Gilmore, the new executive director of Lexington's Explorium, has an odd problem: How do you expand the customer base of a museum where the young patrons are given to squealing over just how far you can stretch bubble soap?
Francisco's Farm a potent mix of high art, local interest
By Heather Castro Contributing Art Writer
Those in arts administration — directors, board members, managers and such — frequently enforce in the art world a fondness for buzzwords, the latest being community. Community and the arts are the perfect team — as long as the team is real. To embrace the plethora of meanings of the word community takes a great commitment to extrapolate the notion of art beyond its high-horse aura, making it attractive to a broad range of interests (and pocketbooks).
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