Philharmonic brings Horsetails back for WEG
By Rich Copley rcopley@herald-leader.com
HorseMania 2010 isn’t the only equine-related art project that will ride again during the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games. Horsetails, a project that the Lexington Philharmonic first orchestrated in 2003 and repeated the next three years, is returning to coincide with next year’s big event.
Frames of reference
Rich Copley Herald-Leader Culture Columnist
Mike Smith was on a Tuesday morning mission to show a friend some peacocks on a farm along East Tennessee's Holston River. He also knew he had a photo opportunity. "I'd been there before and I knew it was gorgeous," Smith said, less than an hour after the visit. "And I was right. There was fog coming off the river this morning with sunlight poking through." It was a moment that showed the East Tennessee State University photography professor's enduring love for the landscape surrounding him, and a more directed way of working.
Go ahead and blow this opportunity
Herald-Leader staff report
During personal ornament sessions with Louisville's Flame Run Gallery artists, you can choose your colors and then create your ornament.
Never fear Day of the Dead
By Josh Kegley jkegley@herald-leader.com
Halloween is Saturday night, but if you don't get your fill of skeletons, graveyards and the like, never fear: Christ Church Cathedral and the Living Arts and Science Center will celebrate the Mexican holiday of Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, at a community festival on Sunday.
$900 painting at Lexington antique shop was somewhat undervalued
By Beverly Fortune bfortune@herald-leader.com
Dr. Jim Huffman considered for two weeks whether to put down $900 for a painting he liked at a Lexington antique store.
Land of Tomorrow is here
By Tom Eblen Herald-Leader columnist
The old building doesn't look like much, standing across East Third Street from a demolition site and the King Cobras motorcycle club. A small sign in a window behind a steel-bar security door says: LOT Parrish Rash.
Gallery's goal is to get artists 'out there'
By Shannon Eblen Contributing Art Writer
Lexington is home to a vibrant art community yet has often lacked the resources that allow the artists widespread recognition. That is exactly what Phillip March Jones intends to change.
City, LexArts offer grants for eco-friendly art projects
Herald-Leader Staff Report
The Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government's Department of Environmental Quality and LexArts are launching EcoART, a program that lets not-for-profit groups, schools and individual artists apply for up to $5,000 in grants to fund projects that raise public awareness of environmental issues.
Photographer John Stephen Hockensmith: wild, west
By Rich Copley rcopley@herald-leader.com
In 2007 and 2008, photographer John Stephen Hockensmith found himself in the Western United States in wide-open fields and on mountainsides, camping out in Indian reservations and photographing wild Spanish Mustangs in vigils that sometimes lasted 18 hours.
Fund-raiser gives community Art Fever
By Harriett Hendren hhendren@herald-leader.com
Lexington's party scene gets sizzling Saturday evening with Art Fever, a fund-raiser for the Lexington Art League that aims to put original art in the hands of the community.
Photography exhibit part art, part journalism
By Rich Copley rcopley@herald-leader.com
Photojournalist Jahi Chikwendiu was in Darfur, Sudan, with a family that had to move constantly because of attacks on places they were staying. In a camp, the family built a house of thorns in which they laid down their baby girl, Hawa Oosman Adam.
Coal miners up close and life-size
By Rich Copley Herald-Leader Culture Columnist
Thorney Lieberman spent years in New York trying to shoot architectural images of the city that replicated the experience of being in the presence of the actual objects.
Gallery Hop adds to its success
By Robert Parks Johnson Contributing Writer
On Friday, nearly 25 artists will be removing their brassieres for art's sake. ArtFul Bras is just one of the events making up this month's downtown Gallery Hop.
Youth photo workshop focuses on success
By Merlene Davis Herald-Leader columnist
In the darkness of the room, lighted mostly by a photograph projected on the wall, the discussion revolved around concepts such as reflection, personality, negative space and placement.
Visual arts calendar 2009-10
Visual arts and museum events in Central and Eastern Kentucky, Louisville and Cincinnati from Sept. 13 to May 31.
