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Bernheim Forest's latest addition: a huge, free-form twig sculpture
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Found-object artist Robert Morgan connects past and modern epidemics
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Lexington-based artist puts the landscape into his paintings
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New bottle tree blossoms at the Arboretum
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Rich Copley: Art League and 21c Hotel bring excitement to Main and Upper streets
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Aboriginal artist's message is unmistakable
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Fash Food: Paint your nails blue
Rich Copley: Exhibit honors artist who 'was the straw that stirred the drink'
Institute 193 is bringing light to the work of photographer Jonathan Williams with A Palpable Elysium, an exhibit of portraits of authors including Ezra Pound and Henry Miller, and numerous notable Kentuckians, including Trappist monk and author Thomas Merton, and writer Wendell Berry.
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Fash Food: Louisville native launches online boutique
Louisville native Lisa Griffin has lived in New York for the past three years, working as a model, at a beauty company and for a small handbag designer. Earlier this month, Griffin, 24, launched an online boutique called In Dramatic Fashion Shop, selling limited-edition collections from emerging...
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MERLENE DAVIS
Merlene Davis: Transy art project a gift to Limestone neighborhood
This year's undertaking by the Community Engagement through the Arts course is an effort to reach out to and interact with their north Lexington neighbors. By placing the dolls along Limestone, the group is hoping to get the rest of Lexington to visit areas they may not have before.
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Rich Copley: Prison inmate puts his time to artistic use
Institute 193 director Chase Martin marvels at the intricacy of Marvin Francis' sculptures: "The level of detail is amazing." Francis has time to sweat the details because he is doing life in prison for the murder of Hopkinsville grocer Selddon Dixon Sr. in 1986.
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VISUAL ARTS
Photographer Jerry Spagnoli's images take viewer back to the present
Walk into most exhibits of the Robert C. May photography series at The Art Museum at the University of Kentucky and you see images of similar styles and sizes. But the current exhibit by Jerry Spagnoli offers a trio of image types: small 19th-century silver plates, large color images and nearly ...
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VISUAL ARTS
Rich Copley: Transy grad returns to the start of his artistic career
This week, Trevor Martin will be back at his old school, speaking to classes and presenting one of his performance pieces, Afterword: In Search of an Epilogue, at Transylvania's Carrick Theatre.
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VISUAL ARTS
Barn of kid-friendly exhibits opens at Kentucky Horse Park
Twenty stalls once occupied by draft horses now have interactive exhibits offering lessons on a wide variety of horse-related topics.
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VISUAL ARTS
Georgetown College exhibit plumbs the passions of an art collector
John B. Milward has amassed an enormous collection of prints, paintings and sculptures, and his collection is featured in A Passionate Pursuit: The Milward Collection, on exhibit through April 20 at the Anne Wilson Wright Gallery at Georgetown College.
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Clark County high schoolers paint portraits of students in mentoring art program
The art exhibit at the Winchester Opera House is an extension of a mentoring project between students in advanced art classes at George Rogers Clark High School and some third-grade students at Central Elementary School.
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VISUAL ARTS
Three Lexingtonians on Oxford American’s superstars of Southern art list
The current issue of the Oxford American has a list of "The New Superstars of Southern Art" (just a preview page), and it includes three Lexington-based artists with Lina Tharsing at No. 5.
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VISUAL ARTS
Kentucky Crafted: the Market returns to Lexington
This year, Kentucky Crafted: The Market, the state's major marketing opportunity for artists, craftsmen, musicians and locally produced foods, returns to its roots in Lexington.








