 Alexa Hoyer, Suspended Circle, 2016, archival pigment print on Dibond, Tested Ground (05/26- 09/16/2017), UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art The UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art continues its 50th anniversary programming with four summer exhibitions featuring sculpture, drawing, photography, found objects, installation, and film. They are "connected by overarching questions about our place in the physical world." The press release is after the jump.
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 “Pipe Dream’ at The Smith Center. Photo: PaintThisDesert ROSES AND 'DREAM': My guest post at Curbed led to a last-minute request to head a small downtown photo art safari. At first I wasn’t sure about going out since there is a lot to catch up on after two busy months. It was a good choice. The late Sunday afternoon light and weather was perfect. I took two cameras and four lenses, and mixed it up with some phone pics. The only thing I planned was having the last stop to be at The Smith Center so we could watch Tim Bavington’s “Pipe Dream’ catch the spring sunset.
 Ugo Rondinone: Seven Magic Mountains, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2016. Photo by Gianfranco Gorgoni. Courtesy of Art Production Fund and Nevada Museum of Art. Bureaucratic Wall: Artsy goes long form to document the lobbying and negotiation behind "Seven Magic Mountains," a case study on the challenges of art in public space. "The result was that the creation of Seven Magic Mountains required a herculean amount of bureaucratic artistry on both sides, to bridge the divide between two unfamiliar worlds. And the piece is a singular example of the challenges—often invisible in the final work—confronting those who help create public art." Seven Magic Mountains fought the law and the rocks won. ARTSY Policy Wall: State Senator Tick Segerblom is introducing legislation to get $10 million from the state so that major art museum in Symphony Park an be built, reports KNPR. "Segerblom is amending Senate Bill 187 to obtain the money from the general fund, with this provision: To get the money, it would have to be matched by private donors within the next two years." 'not to be missed": "Where would we be without the Barrick Museum?" writes Dawn-Michelle Baude in Las Vegas Weekly. "Its latest hit, Process, brings 10 artists—a mid-career group with a keen sense of artistic purpose. . . It’s not just what you do: it’s also about how you do it." Diana Edelman writes "The latest mural by artist Eric Vozzola can’t be seen in the typical public places where his previous large-scale works can be found. In fact, most people will never set eyes on his creation, a magnificent spectrum of rich gem hues that cast the Las Vegas sunset (and Sunrise Mountain) in a myriad of geometric shapes. Why? Because it’s housed in the main hallway of Helen Herr Elementary." Vegas Seven  Photo: Rachel Bellinsky Busy April: Holly Vaughn shared this photo of her working on a new mural on the alley wall of Vesta Coffee. The prolific public artist is slated to paint her Lone Mountain ZAP box this coming week.  Justin Favela Frida Wall: "As a lifelong resident of Las Vegas, Justin Favela has been influenced by the cultural mash-ups so prevalent there," writes Shannon Robb for Denver Art Museum. "The pastiche of architectural styles and historical references serves as a launch pad for his studio practice."
 Wall Talk: The Department of Homeland Security received proposals for President Trump's wall along the border. The designs "vary wildly, from the brutal functionality of proposals that resemble the walls surrounding US Army bases in foreign countries to designs that dress up their nefarious purpose with beneficial features like solar panels or passageways for small animals, to utopian visions that seek to unify the region rather than divide it." Hyperallergic looks at six designs. Wall Stop: A lawsuit has been filed that "seeks to stop any work until the government agrees to analyze the impact of construction, noise, light and other changes to the landscape on rivers, plants and endangered species — including jaguars, Sonoran pronghorns and ocelots — and also on border residents." NYTimes  Screenshot from SDUT. Wall Art: Salvador “Sal” Barajas was one of the original artists who painted murals in San Diego's Chicano Park. That was 1972. His new mural depicts migrant workers and comments on the planned border wall. Some say the message is unifying. Others are saying it's 'un-American." San Diego Union-Tribune. Wall Street: At KSUT, art critic Jerry Saltz speaks up on the stare-down between Fearless Girl and Charging Bull. Fearless Girl is the sculpture an investment firm commissioned for International Women's Day. It faces Wall Street's famous Charging Bull by Arturo Di Modica. "The artist who made Charging Bull wants that girl gone. He says she diminishes his piece," reports KSUT. "And first of all, you said the sculptor Arturo Di Modica. I would not even call him an artist, frankly. I think of him more as, at best, a skilled craftsman with a totally cliched idea of what sculpture is." says Saltz . . . On Instagram, momtrends writes "I took the girls and reminded them that there are only 7 female CEOs running the top 100 companies, yet there are 17 men named John and 12 named David. We can do better. They can do better." More at The Guardian. Forgotten Street Art Legend: Richard Hambleton anticipated the works of Banksy by more than a decade. "The unsigned figures were created under cover of darkness on buildings and bridges. They weren’t mere graffiti, but painterly works reminiscent of Jackson Pollock. Downtown residents buzzed about who could be behind them." Raquel Laneri writes on the hard life and comback of this street artist for the NY POST.  Rendering of one segment of "Ai Weiwei: Good Fences Make Good Neighbors". Courtesy of Ai Weiwei Studio. Fences, not Walls: Through Public Art Fund, Ai Weiwei is planning "his most ambitious public art project to date. This fall, he will introduce 'Good Fences Make Good Neighbors,' a multi-site, multi-borough installation that explores the inclination towards, and effects of, erecting boundaries in society." ARTNET WALLED OFF HOTEL: British artist Banksy opened the Walled Off Hotel near the West Bank wall and it is "now a quiet tourist destination in the city where Jesus Christ was born: a hotel, gallery, museum, bookstore and spray paint shop . . . "that is "part whimsy and spectacle. . .." reports the NYTIMES. Its booked through June.  Final Note: I Googled "Jesus," "Street Art," and "Easter." This is one image that popped up. Artist and location unknown.
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