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Urban Loft Tours this Thursday
The annual walking tour is a benefit for the Asheville Art Museum. Photo from a 2009 loft tour.
Paint by number
Art for art’s sake? According to the 2010 Arts and Economic Prosperity IV study, the benefits to the city and county are much greater — $43.7 million greater.
Conducted by Americans for the Arts, Asheville’s Cultural Affairs department and 38 area arts nonprofits, the study provides numerical evidence of the impact of nonprofit cultural organizations on the local, state and national levels. (Image from the Arts and Economic Prosperity IV brochure.)
Boy meets tree in Sick-Amour
“I have fallen in love with a beautiful tree stuck in the middle of a giant parking lot in front of the Rose Bowl.” So writes Joel Tauber of his documentary Sick-Amour, showing at the Asheville Art Museum on Sunday, July 15.
Tonight at the Asheville Art Museum: The Three Bs!
About 40 miles southwest of Asheville, the 76th Brevard Music Festival is well under way. Tonight, three musicians from the seven-week fete visit the Asheville Art Museum’s new East Wing Gallery to perform solo and chamber works from The Three Bs — Bach, Beethoven and Brahms. (Pictured: A public-domain image of a portrait of young Beethoven.)
Call for Entries for the Project Handmade Fashion Show
Attention crafters and designers! Those of you working within 100 miles of Asheville are invited to submit work for a handmade fashion show, slated to take place this fall. The deadline to enter is July 15.
Robert Motherwell show is an ode to the printmaking form
The Asheville Art Museum has put together a show that’s the first of its kind for our end of the state. A special lecture on the artist and his work will be held Thursday, May 10 at 7 p.m.
This weekend on a shoestring
Spring has sprung, and this weekend, we showcase a number of outdoor events that capitalize on the warming weather. But, as always, there’s plenty of music, art, spoken word and film for those who prefer to be entertained indoors.
Asheville Art Museum expansion plans
In February 2010, the Pack Square Conservancy gave its approval of the Asheville Art Museum’s design of a new glass structure that will serve as both a giant window onto the heart of downtown and an inviting entrance into the museum. A large glass wall is the biggest outward change to the museum on Pack […]
Conservancy gives approval to art museum’s design plans
The Pack Square Conservancy board on Wednesday gave its approval of the Asheville Art Museum’s design of a new glass structure that will serve as both a giant window onto the heart of downtown and an inviting entrance into the museum.
Talking about “Klan Room Tableau”
Two days to catch a startling installation on the Ku Klux Klan.