Visual Arts – Arts and Music: Recent Episodes
Visual Arts – Arts and Music
Filmmaker Mira Nair and artist Bharti Kher talk about the social and cross-cultural inspirations behind their work on WFIU's Profiles.
The Bloomington community gets creative as it tries to save the Alexander Memorial in Courthouse Square.
For the past 40 years, Indiana Heritage Arts (IHA) has promoted the tradition of this painting style as it was practiced by T.C. Steele and others in Brown County.
The Grunwald Gallery presents Messengers, an exhibition of paintings, sculpture and works on paper by internationally known artist Bharti Kher
Film and Gender scholar Madelyn Ritrosky tells the story of a thoroughly modern 1920s woman, in her new short film “Stardust and Moonbeams.”
Danish fiber artist Isabel Berglund calls her large installations "social art," for the way groups of people produce and the interact with them.
Critics complained that his work wasn’t serious. He was cornball. He was just a calendar artist. His first artwork to be acquired by a museum went for $100.
"My first puzzles, the back side of the puzzle could actually be a hand-painted set piece that you might’ve seen onstage at a Cardinal performance."
Furniture maker Siosi Design blurs the lines between art and craft, and lifestyle and work.
Donna Sasse's dream is for all residents of Columbus, not just visitors, to take the architecture tour.
Securing the perimeter of her home place are Pennington’s own hulking forms, equally redolent of anatomy and primal energy, possibly demanding a blood meal.
Mark Ratzlaff has made paintings of possums and pizza boxes, but he's being hailed by the most staid arts organizations in Indiana. It turn
Architects, designers, and community stakeholders convene for the launch of Exhibit Columbus, to further the city's identity as an aesthetic standard-bearer.
Before it is razed and reënvisioned, a derelict neighborhood in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan is being occupied by artists competing in ArtPrize 2016.
Whether stress reliever, creative outlet, antidote to screens, or happy hour pastime, coloring has become popular among adults and lucrative for publishers.
Columbus residents enjoyed the sculpture so much, they raised more than $40,000 to purchase it for the city.
The rain-activated artwork typically lasts two to four months, depending on the weather.
Regardless of the vagaries of time and place--no matter how dramatic--Annemarie Mahler-Ettinger identifies with the art she has made since the age of three.
A photographer revisiting a college project realized he had documented a landmark that had disappeared from the Bloomington landscape.
A flagship event on the city's arts calendar, the Bloomington Open Studio Tour is celebrating its fifth year with a bike map, a mobile app, and demos galore.
IU and Florence Italy’s Uffizi Gallery Museum will create 3-D digital collections online of over 1,000 classical sculptures dating back to the 15th century.
All year, IU's art museum has been celebrating its 75th birthday. This week, the occasion was toasted by a stunning act of philanthropy.
Scientists, artists, software designers, and architects from around the country are convening to consider how freehand drawing sparks the imaginative process.
Naptown Knitters, a knitting circle organized by residents in a minimum security prison, meets weekly to make hats, scarves and blankets for charity.
A relationship that flickered in the fugitive medium of the text message is reified in the most transitory of gallery spaces.
Painter Maureen Forman has used the immediacy of her surroundings and directness of graphite to discover her own voice.
Residents of Dana, Indiana bemoan the removal of a mural honoring hometown hero Ernie Pyle. One man is seeking to refurbish the war correspondent's image.
Readers of Bloom Magazine are being invited to take a look at their city through the eyes of its homeless residents.
Lilly Library curator Andrew Rhoda discusses how puzzles can teach us about history and ourselves.
Beyond clichés about the heartland and the popular imagery of "authenticity", a new photography magazine seeks to tell the real stories of the Midwest.
Personal effects mingle alongside safari souvenirs in an exhibition at the Grunwald Gallery representing the more curious contents of IU's collections.
In Bloomington, there’s a new way for visual artists to connect with patrons. And the business model comes from an unlikely source--the crop share.
The designer who determined what the 70s looked like spent his teen years in Indiana. Budding Hoosier designers are finding inspiration in vintage Halston.
Veteran adult entertainer Annie Sprinkle and partner Beth Stephens propose a pleasure-driven approach to environmentalism.
John Porcellino is a leading author and illustrator in the independent comics and ’zine movement. He has been self-publishing the autobiographical 'zine King Cat Comics since 1989.
An artist who now lives in Bloomington, Ind., was inspired by Hurricane Katrina. She says it taught her to enjoy every moment she's given.
"For example, we have a very round object here, there’s no text. And this actually folds up, collapses into a little piece that looks like candy."
It's a $300,000 grant program for artists and arts organizations to fund performances, residencies and shows in state parks.
After life taught her to find opportunity in adversity, Elizabeth Vaught has built her studio practice on creating art from discarded objects.