Art

In 2017 Michele Greer was Miss Ponoka Stampede. Now she’s making custom pieces of wearable art. (Ponoka Stampede/submitted)

Former Miss Ponoka Stampede creates custom western artwork

In 2017 Michele Greer was Miss Ponoka Stampede. Now she’s making custom…

 

Red Deer artists Brian McArthur and Dawn Detarando, of Voyager Art Inc., are competing in the third season of CBC’s ‘Race Against the Tide’ sand-sculpting reality show on Sunday nights. (Contributed photo)

Red Deer artists compete in CBC’s sand-sculpting reality show ‘Race Against the Tide’

It was an amazing experience, say Dawn Detarando and Brian McArthur

 

Brick Rabbit statue, near the intersection of 49th Avenue and 48th Street in downtown Red Deer, sustained significant damage when it was vandalized. (Advocate file photo.)

City of Red Deer needs to maintain its public art investment, say local artists

Many pieces of downtown art have been ‘sliding’ in recent years: Detarando

 

Brick Rabbit statue, near the intersection of 49th Avenue and 48th Street, in downtown Red Deer, recently sustained significant damage when it was vandalized. (Photo by SUSAN ZIELINSKI/Advocate staff)

Downtown rabbit statue literally defaced by vandals

Removal of ‘Brick Rabbit’ very likely

Brick Rabbit statue, near the intersection of 49th Avenue and 48th Street, in downtown Red Deer, recently sustained significant damage when it was vandalized. (Photo by SUSAN ZIELINSKI/Advocate staff)
A wall at Red Deer Eye Care, at 4402 49th Ave., is sporting a new mural by Slugger Studio. (Photo by SUSAN ZIELINSKI/Advocate staff)

More Red Deer buildings becoming canvases for mural artists

12 murals to be added to the towntown

A wall at Red Deer Eye Care, at 4402 49th Ave., is sporting a new mural by Slugger Studio. (Photo by SUSAN ZIELINSKI/Advocate staff)
A Ghostbusters-themed frame made by Andrea Tucker-Hutch, of Curiosity Art & Framing, was chosen as one of the top five frames at a recent Fine Art Trade Guild competition in Britain. (Photo by Susan Zielinski/Advocate staff)

Red Deer art framer recognized at U.K. competition

Ghostbusters inspires professional framer

A Ghostbusters-themed frame made by Andrea Tucker-Hutch, of Curiosity Art & Framing, was chosen as one of the top five frames at a recent Fine Art Trade Guild competition in Britain. (Photo by Susan Zielinski/Advocate staff)
FILE - Visitors pose in front of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa in the Louvre museum, Wednesday, May, 19, 2021 in Paris. A man seemingly disguised as an old woman in a wheelchair threw a piece of cake at the glass protecting the Mona Lisa on Sunday May 29, 2022 at the Louvre Museum and shouted at people to think of planet Earth. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

Man in wig and wheelchair throws cake at glass protecting Mona Lisa

Attack left white smear on the glass but the famous work by Leonardo da Vinci wasn’t damaged

FILE - Visitors pose in front of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa in the Louvre museum, Wednesday, May, 19, 2021 in Paris. A man seemingly disguised as an old woman in a wheelchair threw a piece of cake at the glass protecting the Mona Lisa on Sunday May 29, 2022 at the Louvre Museum and shouted at people to think of planet Earth. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)
The 1964 painting Shot Sage Blue Marilyn by Andy Warhol is carried in Christie’s showroom in New York City on Sunday, May 8, 2022. The auction house predicts it will sell for $200 million on Monday, becoming the most expensive 20th-century artwork to sell at auction. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)

Warhol’s ‘Marilyn nabs $195M in auction, most ever for US artist

Unnamed buyer made the purchase Monday night through Christie’s auction house in New York

The 1964 painting Shot Sage Blue Marilyn by Andy Warhol is carried in Christie’s showroom in New York City on Sunday, May 8, 2022. The auction house predicts it will sell for $200 million on Monday, becoming the most expensive 20th-century artwork to sell at auction. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)
FILE - Red Deer Indigenous artist Ryan Jason Allen Willert was one of 14 artists involved in painting murals in downtown Red Deer in 2021. (Photo by Advocate staff)

Buildings wanted for more downtown murals in Red Deer

Increased foot traffic where the murals appeared last summer

FILE - Red Deer Indigenous artist Ryan Jason Allen Willert was one of 14 artists involved in painting murals in downtown Red Deer in 2021. (Photo by Advocate staff)
Domee Shi, Lindsey Collins, Sandra Oh, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan and Rosalie Chiang attend the Canadian Disney Premiere of "Turning Red" at TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto, Tuesday, March 8, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Disney, George Pimentel, *MANDATORY CREDIT*

‘Turning Red’ is a ‘love letter’ to Asian Canadian girls, says director Domee Shi

‘Turning Red’ is a ‘love letter’ to Asian Canadian girls, says director Domee Shi

Domee Shi, Lindsey Collins, Sandra Oh, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan and Rosalie Chiang attend the Canadian Disney Premiere of "Turning Red" at TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto, Tuesday, March 8, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Disney, George Pimentel, *MANDATORY CREDIT*
A conservator stands next to a Parthenon fragment, on loan from the Antonino Salinas Regional Archaeological Museum of Palermo, at the Parthenon Gallery of the Acropolis Museum, in Athens, on Monday, Jan. 10, 2022. The 2,500-year-old fragment is formally on loan from Sicily’s A. Salinas Archaeological Museum, but both sides have said it could well end up permanently in Athens. Greek officials hope the move could encourage the British Museum to return its own extensive collection of sculptures from the Parthenon Temple on the Acropolis – a decades-old Greek demand that the London museum has so far rebuffed. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Greece hopes marble foot will get UK to return sculptures

British Museum has repeatedly rebuffed Greek demands

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A conservator stands next to a Parthenon fragment, on loan from the Antonino Salinas Regional Archaeological Museum of Palermo, at the Parthenon Gallery of the Acropolis Museum, in Athens, on Monday, Jan. 10, 2022. The 2,500-year-old fragment is formally on loan from Sicily’s A. Salinas Archaeological Museum, but both sides have said it could well end up permanently in Athens. Greek officials hope the move could encourage the British Museum to return its own extensive collection of sculptures from the Parthenon Temple on the Acropolis – a decades-old Greek demand that the London museum has so far rebuffed. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
Artist Robert Houle is pictured at his exhibition ‘Robert Houle: Red is Beautiful’ at the Art Gallery of Ontario, in Toronto, on Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021.The exhibition, which features 100 paintings and installation and residential school to museum boardrooms, covers more than 50 years of artmaking and advocacy, and will tour across Canada (Calgary and Winnipeg) and then to the National Museum of American Indian in NYC in 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young

New retrospective explores the 50-year career of First Nations artist Robert Houle

Houle began to use art as a way to heal the wounds of the past

Artist Robert Houle is pictured at his exhibition ‘Robert Houle: Red is Beautiful’ at the Art Gallery of Ontario, in Toronto, on Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021.The exhibition, which features 100 paintings and installation and residential school to museum boardrooms, covers more than 50 years of artmaking and advocacy, and will tour across Canada (Calgary and Winnipeg) and then to the National Museum of American Indian in NYC in 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
FILE - Rapper Tupac Shakur attends a voter registration event in South Central Los Angeles on Aug. 15, 1996. Shakur’s handwritten lyrics from classic songs such as “California Love” and “Dear Momma” along galleries that pay homage to his upbringing and mother are among the artifacts featured in a massive touring museum exhibit. The Shakur Estate announced Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021, that the “Tupac Shakur. Wake Me When I’m Free” will open on Jan. 21, 2022, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Frank Wiese, File)

Tupac Shakur’s life, legacy to be subject of massive exhibit

Tupac Shakur’s life, legacy to be subject of massive exhibit

FILE - Rapper Tupac Shakur attends a voter registration event in South Central Los Angeles on Aug. 15, 1996. Shakur’s handwritten lyrics from classic songs such as “California Love” and “Dear Momma” along galleries that pay homage to his upbringing and mother are among the artifacts featured in a massive touring museum exhibit. The Shakur Estate announced Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021, that the “Tupac Shakur. Wake Me When I’m Free” will open on Jan. 21, 2022, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Frank Wiese, File)
Tracey Grieke (right) addressing the event attendees with Ryan Jason Allen Willert. (Reeti Rohilla/Black Press news services)

Town of Sylvan Lake unveils Indigenous mural as a token of reminder and reconciliation

The Town of Sylvan Lake unveiled its ‘Let Them Play’ mural on…

Tracey Grieke (right) addressing the event attendees with Ryan Jason Allen Willert. (Reeti Rohilla/Black Press news services)
The Study for “Worn Out”, a drawing by Dutch master Vincent van Gogh, dated Nov. 1882, goes on public display for the first time at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

‘New’ Van Gogh drawing to go on display in Amsterdam museum

Study goes on show through Jan. 2

  • Sep 16, 2021
The Study for “Worn Out”, a drawing by Dutch master Vincent van Gogh, dated Nov. 1882, goes on public display for the first time at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
FILE - In this Jan. 3, 1996, file photo, Chuck Close, 55, using a hand brace to hold his paint brush, adjusts the brush with his teeth while working in his New York studio. Since suffering a partial paralysis in 1988 due to a spinal artery collapse, Close does not have the strength to grip the brush. Close who is best known for his monumental grid portraits and photo-based paintings of family and famous friends, has died on Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021, at age 81. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Chuck Close, artist of monumental grids, dies at 81

Chuck Close, artist of monumental grids, dies at 81

FILE - In this Jan. 3, 1996, file photo, Chuck Close, 55, using a hand brace to hold his paint brush, adjusts the brush with his teeth while working in his New York studio. Since suffering a partial paralysis in 1988 due to a spinal artery collapse, Close does not have the strength to grip the brush. Close who is best known for his monumental grid portraits and photo-based paintings of family and famous friends, has died on Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021, at age 81. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
This image released by Sony Pictures Classics shows the cleaned version of The Salvator Mundi as a crack is restored in a scene from "The Lost Leonardo." (Adam Jandrup/Sony Pictures Classics via AP)

‘Lost Leonardo’ unpeels the mysteries of the Salvator Mundi

‘Lost Leonardo’ unpeels the mysteries of the Salvator Mundi

This image released by Sony Pictures Classics shows the cleaned version of The Salvator Mundi as a crack is restored in a scene from "The Lost Leonardo." (Adam Jandrup/Sony Pictures Classics via AP)
The statue Doris and Mickey the beaver was among the city's ghost statues that were tagged with red-painted hand prints. (Contributed)

Defaced: Red handprints appear on Red Deer’s ghost statues

Vandalism in downtown Red Deer

The statue Doris and Mickey the beaver was among the city's ghost statues that were tagged with red-painted hand prints. (Contributed)
Emily Carr’s 1939 forest scene, “Tossed by the Wind,” is expected to fetch between $1.2 and $1.6 million. (Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS)

Two major canvases by Emily Carr lead Toronto auction house’s spring sale

Heffel Fine Art Auction House will take bids at a virtual live auction on Wednesday

Emily Carr’s 1939 forest scene, “Tossed by the Wind,” is expected to fetch between $1.2 and $1.6 million. (Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS)
Projections of selected works of celebrated painter Vincent Van Gogh are displayed at a preview of the Immersive Van Gogh exhibit at Pier 36, Friday, June 4, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Everything in New York is bigger, even its Van Gogh exhibit

Everything in New York is bigger, even its Van Gogh exhibit

Projections of selected works of celebrated painter Vincent Van Gogh are displayed at a preview of the Immersive Van Gogh exhibit at Pier 36, Friday, June 4, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)