Visual Arts

Well-known Lawrence artist brings his crop work to Topeka
July 9, 2009
An environmental artist is helping a Topeka hospital celebrate its 100th anniversary by mowing its logo into a grassy hill.
Kodachrome film sent out to pasture
Kansas lab is only one to still process it
June 23, 2009
Sorry, Paul Simon, Kodak is taking your Kodachrome away. The Eastman Kodak Co. announced Monday it’s retiring its oldest film stock because of declining customer demand in an increasingly digital age.
Investing in the right camera
June 22, 2009
In the modern world it can be very difficult to keep up with the latest technology. Something that was cutting edge just a few years ago could be rendered hopelessly outdated by the latest advances.
Fundraiser in full swing for Van Go Mobile Arts
June 21, 2009
When Howard Hasler arrived at Van Go Mobile Arts Inc.’s What Floats Your Boat fundraiser, it was the brightly colored flower umbrella up for auction that caught his eye.
Documentary covers effort to lay grave mystery to rest
In case involving insurance fraud from late 1800s, body buried in Oak Hill Cemetery was exhumed
June 17, 2009
It was a century-old mystery about who was buried in a Lawrence grave.
Silverdocs honors filmmaker Albert Maysles
June 14, 2009
For more than 50 years, Albert Maysles has been producing some of the nation’s most searing, memorable documentaries.
Local artist dismayed by national D-Day memorial’s financial woes
Closure of memorial ‘will make it look like we didn’t care’
June 3, 2009
Lawrence-area sculptor Jim Brothers has a significant amount of time and energy invested in the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Va. Brothers has worked on more than a dozen sculptures at the memorial honoring the 1944 invasion of Normandy, France, by Allied Forces in World War II.
¡Lucha mania! ‘Cinema con queso’ brings vintage Mexican wrestle mania back to the big screen
May 28, 2009
What do you get if you cross Superman and Hulk Hogan with a dash of flamboyantly weird filmmaker Ed Wood? El Santo.
Artist has designs on KU tree
May 22, 2009
What do you get when you take 6,000 pounds of maple and dogwood saplings and put them in the hands of an internationally known sculptor? The answer is taking shape at the corner of 14th Street and Jayhawk Boulevard in front of Spooner Hall on the Kansas University campus.
Stan Herd painting a new ‘second-chance prize’ for Kansas lottery game
May 19, 2009
Players of a new Kansas Lottery game will be getting more than a 1-in-75,000 chance of winning $10,000.
Comics convention set at fairgrounds
May 13, 2009
The 2009 Free State FreeCon Comic Book and Toy Convention will be from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday.
Sign artist’s work popular among local businesses
May 13, 2009
Larry Colley’s work might have messages about stress, but that doesn’t reflect how he feels about his hobby.
Southwest students record reviews of works at Spencer
May 11, 2009
Atticus Madden is listening to his own voice on the computer, trying to tweak it a bit before it’s available for the whole world to hear on the Internet. “Just a few cosmetic changes,” she says, looking a screen with soundwaves and deleting a few stutterings.
Falling stars: ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ child actors return to life of extreme poverty
May 5, 2009
Rubina Ali’s house is flooded with sewer water, and her feet itch. She’s discovered a world of creepy-crawlies in the opaque gray water: scorpions, rats and slithery creatures with lots of legs. Two months ago, the child star of the hit movie “Slumdog Millionaire” was worrying about what to wear to the Oscars. Now she has come home to a very different problem: How to get the fetid water out of her family’s one-room shack.
K.C. artist, LHS students bring nature to commons
April 27, 2009
Eyad Elhamoudeh admits he hadn’t spent much time looking at the columns surrounding the commons area at Lawrence High School — until two weeks ago. “Everyone just walks by,” he said. “This adds texture to the hallway. Maybe people will start to notice.”

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