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Current Art News

UNLV president will highlight exceptional students at commencement who embody the academic, research, and community impact of the graduating class.

The biannual Open Studios is an opportunity for the community to visit the graduate studios and meet the artists.

The Barrick Museum is the only institution in Nevada to be selected as a finalist for this prestigious award.

This year's inductees include legendary songstress Dionne Warwick, iconic musician and performer Paul Anka, prima ballerina Cynthia Gregory, and actor and educator Michael Tylo (posthumously).

MFA art student Lyssa Parks' work "Star Studies" explores campus diversity and the imposter syndrome that some students feel.

Exhibition features projects from 10 fine arts bachelor's students.
Art In The News

Last summer Lisa Rock left her house as seldom as she could. She says it's because of what was happening right outside her door.
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His status as an art-world outsider, and as a staunch defender of “beauty” in art, drew him legions of fans and enemies alike.
Dave Hickey, a critic, popularly known for his book "Art Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy," has passed away at the age of 82.
Dave Hickey, a prominent American critic whose essays covered subjects from Liberace to Norman Rockwell, has died.
Art critic Dave Hickey, known for his sharp wit and brash writing, died at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, of heart disease November 12 at the age of eighty-two.
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