Category Archives: Visual Arts
Philip Glass’ Being John Malkovich Moment
If you’re a Charleston resident and you’re not sure what pioneering minimalist composer and prolific film scorer Philip Glass looks like, get ready to find out — in spades.
Last week, Spoleto Festival USA announced its 2007 poster image, and it’s got Glass all over it. In fact, it’s nothing but Glass — a portrait of [...]
Piccolo Program Drops on April 10
A memo from the City Office of Cultural Affairs this afternoon brings the news that Ellen Dressler Moryl and Co. will be announcing the Piccolo Spoleto program on April 10, noonish, at the City Gallery at Waterfront Park.
We’ve already got the skinny on a few choice parts of the Little Festival, though, including the [...]
The Final Friday
On Friday evening, after chatting with a post-performance Danny Hoch in the lobby of the Simons Center, as he was signing books and being surpassingly genial (with nary an f-bomb in sight), I hoofed it over to the east end of Beaufain Street, where video artist and current Redux exhibitor Kevin Hoth had promised he’d [...]
Munny Talk
From visual arts writer Nick Smith:
Looks like the decision to hold The Munny Show during the first week of Piccolo was right on the money. The B’Zar Boutique-curated alternative art show, held at 53 Cannon Gallery on May 27, was popular enough to spark talk of another outing for the 8-inch solid white vinyl character [...]
Kids with Viewpoints
From arts writer Nick Smith:
The new photography show A Global Insight launched this weekend, with the artists present at the CofC’s Addlestone Library, alternately running around, causing a fuss and looking bored.
While that might sound like the behavior of most artists I’ve come across, these were all aged 6-16. Through the Eyes of Kids exhibits [...]
Mumbles on Murmurs
From City Paper visual arts writer Nick Smith:
Candace Ivy is one of the calmest, most long-suffering artists I’ve ever known, and she’s had to be with her installation in the Old City Jail. After sweating through construction of her Murmurs Piccolo show in the un-airconditioned cells, she had to light her drawings and mylar panels. [...]
Early Exhibitionism
On Saturday night, with less than a week remaining until all hell officially breaks loose, Piccolo Spoleto held opening receptions for no fewer than four of its high-profile visual arts exhibits — an effort to get out in front of the chaos of opening weekend and avoid being lost in the kerfuffle. Charleston’s visual arts [...]
Six Days and Counting
For all my talk about the coming warm weather yesterday, things on the Saturday before the festival’s kickoff look decidedly milder: just 71 degrees here at mid-morning, and unless I’m mistaken there’s rain on the way. At the moment, I’m off to record another pair of Spoletobuzz podcasts - first with PURE Theatre’s Rodney Rogers, [...]
The Parodying Begins
There’s a venerable tradition of underground artists in Charleston finding ways to send up Spoleto’s perceived elitism — one of my favorites dates from about eight years ago, when one could find raw baking potatoes strewn randomly about the city, often skewered on street signs, with “Spoleto Potato” scrawled on them with a black sharpie. [...]
