College of Charleston – "Carolina Arts Unleashed"

College of Charleston in Charleston, SC, Features an Installation by Jennifer Wen Ma for the 2019 Piccolo Spoleto Festival

May 28, 2019 by admin

The College of Charleston in Charleston, SC, is presenting, Cry Joy Park: Gardens of Dark and Light, featuring work by Jennifer Wen Ma, on view at The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, through July 6, 2019, part of the 2019 Piccolo Spoleto Festival. “The exhibition is an investigation into the construct of a utopia, inspired ... Read More

Finally a Trip to See Aggie Zed’s Exhibit at The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art in Charleston, SC

March 8, 2012December 4, 2014 by admin

One of the cruelest things in life is that we don’t get to do everything we want and sometimes even when we do get to do something – it’s too late. In this instance, I’m lucky I got a chance to see this exhibit at all, but it was too late to do so and ... Read More

A Look at a Couple More Spoleto/Piccolo Festival Exhibits

June 16, 2010December 3, 2014 by admin

Both the Spoleto and Piccolo Spoleto Festivals are over, but as usual with the art community, while most of the performing arts groups have packed up their seasonal offerings – the visual arts are still here and you can still see both of these exhibits I’ll be talking about. While the festivals were still going ... Read More

Visiting The Marion and Wayland H. Cato Jr. Center for the Arts in Charleston, SC

January 15, 2010December 3, 2014 by admin

The title of this entry could be – Old School Photography at the College of Charleston’s School of the Arts, but I don’t know how to do a subtitle or if you can do a subtitle in WordPress. It was a cold day to drive down to Charleston to attend an open house for a ... Read More

Shepard Fairey – Hopes – His Cover-up Attempt Doesn’t Cost Him Millions

October 31, 2009December 3, 2014 by admin

Here’s a trick or treat for you. It seems that Shepard Fairey, the creator of the Barack Obama “Hope” poster, says he was mistaken about which Associated Press photograph he used to create the image in a statement submitted in his “fair use” court case. Fairey submitted this new statement to the court: “In an ... Read More

Another Funky Exhibit by Mark Sloan at The College of Charleston for Piccolo Spoleto

June 9, 2009December 3, 2014 by admin

Last year it was the exhibit, Richard McMahan’s Mini Museum, on view in the Sanders Rotunda at the Addlestone Library at the College of Charleston. McMahan has been creating his own personal museum collection featuring miniature replicas of the world’s greatest works of art. This was an unbelievable display of one person’s effort to recreate ... Read More