Art History

Art of the unwearable: Can fashion designer Hussein Chalayan conquer the art world?

3 Sep 2010

Even the most feted of fashion designers are reluctant to describe their work as "art". Still, in 2006, narrating an item dedicated to Hussein Chalayan on BBC2's The Culture Show, the art critic, Andrew Graham-Dixon, described Chalayan's work as "as close to contemporary art as you can get".

The art of a city: more than mosaics

3 Sep 2010

Looked at one way, uptown Charlotte is full of art, far beyond the museum walls. But how is it doing at the more subtle art of creating a downtown?

Drury professor to attend UK's House of Lords reception

3 Sep 2010

Drury University Art History Professor Thomas E. Russo will attend a reception at the House of Lords, the upper house of the United Kingdom's parliament, in London, England, Wednesday, a Drury news release said.