• Greenville Museum of Art has published a small but impressive new catalog titled “Music Without Words” for internationally known Asheville native Kenneth Noland. The introductory essay and interview are by Robert Godfrey, and include a good deal of interesting Asheville history. The books are available at the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center at 56 Broadway.
• My favorite post on Asheville Artists listserv: “The Swannanoa Art League is looking for models for portrait and life drawing sessions. We could also use more artists.”
• Curator Ron Platt and designer Susan Rhew have done well by the artists in the juried show at Asheville Art Museum. The show was carefully and skillfully selected, and the catalog is beautiful.
• You can see Linda Larsen’s work on the Web by looking up Texas State University’s art-exhibit schedule. She shares their gallery with some of the nation’s most well-known artists in a show titled Loyal Opposition: An Exhibition of Protest and Dissent.
• Still life is often seen, but seldom in its various forms of traditional and more contemporary work all in one show. The lower level at The Upstairs Artspace has Richard Conn’s fluid “Summer Salon,” along with a very painterly work called “Still Life With Oranges” by Linda McCane and—in sharp contrast—the limited palette of Michael Brodeur’s “Sweet Nothings.”
• Collaborations among artists are not that unusual, but an honest-to-god, respectful collaboration between arts institutions is extremely uncommon. It takes even more imagination and courage to have a collaboration between a for-profit and a nonprofit. With smart leadership, Blue Spiral and the Center for Craft, Creativity & Design have pulled it off (see item in this week’s Smart Bets). The shows run through April 28.
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