A Swiss "illumination artist" lit up the sides of Washington National Cathedral last night with giant multicolored images. There were projections of stars, human faces and an abstract thing that looked like an exploded tomato. At one point a 50-foot-tall woman in a kimono materialized.
Unless you've been avoiding art shows for the past 20 years or so, you know that contemporary art is no longer about just painting, or printmaking, drawing, photography or sculpture.
After caring for her father for the better part of two years, Tri-City News columnist Mary Woo Sims says she has learned that caregivers have to take care of themselves, too.
BEND, Ore. ( Map , News ) - Barack Obama began sketching the outlines of his expected presidential contest against Republican John McCain on Saturday, saying the fall election will be more about specific plans and priorities than about questions of political ideology or who is more patriotic.
Americans seem to thrive on rivalry. And we like winners and winning. We also want to be heard. During the 1940s and '50s, when the avant-garde artists of New York supplanted those of Europe, Abstract Expressionism and the New York School were celebrated as having literally "triumphed" over the School of Paris. American "Action Painting" and its mural scale, it was believed, had displaced the
From the Day-Glo pop of its computer-generated environments to the "2001"-like rush of its almost abstract action climax, "Speed Racer" may be the most extreme head-trip movie for kids since Gene Wilder conducted us to a lethal candyland in "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" almost four decades ago.
1965: Bob Dylan made one of the earliest videos when he filmed a promotional clip for his current single, ``Subterranean Homesick Blues.'' It shows him flipping through cards with words and short phrases while standing in an alley in London.