http://bhamweekly.com/birmingham/articles.sec-23-1-visual-arts.html test]]> Birmingham Weekly photographers Kalai Kennedy and Stephen Humphreys will be featured artists in PAINT THE TOWN RED art show benefiting the Red Cross. In this innovative photography show, their]]> Dragons and Lotus Blossoms: Vietnamese Ceramics from the Birmingham Museum of Art..]]> Fishermen trawling for fish accidentally discovered the shipwreck in the early 1990s, and in 2000, the Birmingham Museum of Art bought some of these treasures at a San Francisco public auction.]]> OK, so it’s not in a studio, but the weather was too nice to stay inside and a day trip to Bluff Park is almost like going to a different world and time, which makes it worth the excursion. ]]> Frank Fleming learned to express himself the hard way, and some might say in another world, which shows up in his work today.]]> DeeDee Morrison is achieving her dream of being an artist the unconventional way. Instead of attending SCAD or Rhode Island School of Design, she signed up as the only female in a class of 19 in a welding class at Bessemer Tech.]]> Woody Allen has been quoted as saying that “Ninety percent of success is showing up” and Rowland Scherman is a living testament to those words. In 1961, photographer Scherman showed up when a volunteer group called the Peace Corps came into being under the John F. Kennedy administration.]]> Once upon a time two boys went to the old ball game. We had giant snow cones that were bubblegum flavor and were great. ]]> At this point, I think it’s pretty clear that I think graffiti is art. We’ve featured Birmingham graffiti in our SEEN section and on our cover on more than one occasion, and in an artistic context. What wasn’t clear to me until recently, however, was that the status of graffiti as art was in question at all.]]> When I arrived at Bare Hands Gallery downtown on a recent Saturday to talk to artistic director Wendy Jarvis, I came bearing tape recorder, notebook and list of questions. In return, Jarvis and Rachel Staggs, an artist and volunteer, offered me a cup of strong tea, refreshing on a cold afternoon.]]> North and the surrounding blocks will turn once again into the bustling art show known as Artwalk, now in its ninth iteration. In recent years, Artwalk has blossomed into a premium event, featuring scrumptious vittles, live music, wandering street acts, work by over 100 artists to peruse and all at the cost of nothing.]]> There is an exhibit, Fashioning Kimono: Art Deco and Modernism in Japan, that allows viewers to both enjoy the beauty and craftsmanship of vintage kimono and to understand the profound part kimono plays in Japanese cultural identity, especially for women.The exhibit is currently on display at the Birmingham Museum of Art, one of nine stops on its itinerary. The show features nearly 100 kimono from the 19th and 20th centuries, courtesy of the Montgomery Collection in Lugano, Switzerland. The exhibit also features 50 archival photographs from the Hukusai Research Centre in Milan, Italy, that show how kimono were an integral part of nearly every phase of Japanese life. ]]> Do you ever complain that Birmingham lacks its fair share of fresh, unusual or innovative cultural events and other entertainment options? Would you like to have something really different to do on]]> One of Birmingham’s most important visual art exhibitions is now on display at Bare Hands Gallery downtown. The Birmingham Biennial 3 (BB3), which deals with the rich but ever-contentious issue of rac]]> Margot Wade will tell you that she’s not an artist. I suspect she has said as much to at least 300 people during the last month, and I can only hope that more than half of them shook their heads in di]]> What a fascinating surprise that the second exhibition local artist Kate Merritt Davis has curated at Lite Box Gallery is focused on the use of the figure in contemporary art. I say “surprise” beca]]> Imagine someone tells you he's an artist. If the circles you run in don't usually include artists, a declaration like this can be kind of intimidating. If you're most people, you imagine “artist” mean]]> I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the lines that Amy Pleasant uses to define tiny human dramas — or rather, big human dramas rendered on a relatively small scale. My first encounter with her ]]> On Saturday, Oct. 24, Omni Studio will be transformed into a one-of-a-kind "rejects gallery" when the Birmingham chapter of AIGA hosts a one-night exhibition of declined design. “Salon Des Refuses: An]]>