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Restaurants convert parking lots, sidewalks and streets to open-air dining rooms
With permission from the city, businesses with private parking lots can now convert 50% of their parking area to dining. To expand onto public sidewalks, businesses must be able to maintain 6 feet of clear space for diners and pedestrians.
Local artists paint downtown storefronts to show support for protests
Gus Cutty, Kathryn Crawford, Ian Wilkinson and Dustin Spagnola have teamed with downtown businesses owners on the provocative art project.
Screen Scene: Local film news
Gus Cutty presents his latest Hip-Hop Film Series selection, tickets go on sale for a one-night screening of Martin Scorsese’s new Bob Dylan documentary at the Fine Arts Theatre and more.
RAD Fest seeks to create a safe, equitable, community-oriented experience
The collection of artists slated to appear at the Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 13 and 14 festival in the River Arts District is fringey, women-led, often queer-identifying, and less white-centric than the typical Western North Carolina music festival.
Local muralists paint the cancer center parking deck
Ian Wilkinson and other muralists will transform the parking deck over two weekends this month. “Doctors, patients and members of the public are invited to participate in a collaborative mural wall” on Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 25 and 26, according to a press release.
Screen scene: Local film news
Gus Cutty and the Grail join forces for a hip-hop film series, Upstairs Art Gallery and the Tryon Theatre present a documentary on artist David Hockney and more.
Grand Killa Con releases a new music video edited by Gus Cutty
This spooky, vintage-horror film-themed music video, edited by local artist Gus Cutty, is part of an ongoing project by hip-hop artist Grand Killa Con.
Burners and Barbecue creates a new mural for the River Arts District
“There’s no ego battles,” muralist Ian Wilkinson says. “Everybody leaves it on the wall.”
State of the arts: Hannah Dansie’s exhibition draws inspiration from folk tales
Hannah Dansie’s show The Fishwife — opening at The Satellite Gallery on Friday, Aug. 7 — was named after a story from a Grimm’s fairytale book that was read to her as a child. It includes contributions from local artists Alli Good, Sarah Cavalieri, Gus Cutty, Maxx Hawthorne-Fiest, Andy Herod, Nicole McConville, Josie Mosser, Lauren Patton and Ian Wilkinson.
State of the Arts: Asheville muralist exhibition at WCU
A four-person crew containing some of Asheville’s most notable muralists and painters recently took to the walls of Cullowhee. But those artists — Gus Cutty, Hannah Dansie, Alli Good and Ian Wilkinson — haven’t scaled the exteriors of Cullowhee’s restaurants, overpasses or collegiate edifices, as one might expect.
New Lou Reed mural by Gus Cutty up on Lexington Ave
Local artist Gus Cutty is finishing up a new mural of Lou Reed in front of Static Records in downtown Asheville.
Simulacra
Gus Cutty opens a new collection of works in aerosol at The Satellite Gallery on Nov. 1.
“Tim Brought Age” art opening preview
Local artist Gus Gutty gives an insider look at his new show, a collection of works in aerosol, which opens at PUSH Skateshop and Gallery tonight. Click through for the video.
Murals don’t paint themselves
On the cover of the Dec. 5 Xpress, you printed a picture of a mural of Screamin' Jay Hawkins. You credited the photographer, but not the artist who painted the mural. The artist who painted the mural is Gus Cutty. He painted it free-hand, entirely with spray paint. He has numerous murals in and around […]
New Belgium Brewing commissions works from Dustin Spagnola and Gus Cutty
The two Asheville-based mural artists have finished two new pieces on the side of the old Penland Auction house, which will be torn down in four to six weeks.
End of an era: Farewell to the Carolina Lane battle mural
Today was the last for an Asheville street art mainstay: the large battle mural on Carolina Lane. A new work by local artists Ishmael and Gus Cutty will go up in its place. (Photo by Jonathan Welch)
Divine fillet
In Gus Cutty’s new mural at Forever Tattoo on Lexington Avenue, Chick-fil-A’s Dan Cathy appears more than a little gussied up, caked in makeup modeled after the famed American drag queen (and John Waters muse), Divine. (Photo courtesy of Gus Cutty)