Art

Mandela sues art gallery (Perth Now)

4 Jul 2008

FORMER South African president Nelson Mandela is taking legal action against an art gallery in London for selling sketches it says are his.

VISUAL ART: Billy King's Pioneer Square mural (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

4 Jul 2008

Billy King is one of those artists who keep on keeping on under the art world's radar. Not that he doesn't have fans, plenty of them, and a cafe-society Pioneer Square mural that has become a landmark on the corner of Yesler Way and Western Avenue.

Art Exhibit: Works by Ed Ruscha at the Portland Art Museum (The Oregonian)

4 Jul 2008

As a pioneering figure of Pop Art who first gained wide critical notices in the 1960s, Ed Ruscha's place in history is alongside such contemporaries as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Wayne Thiebaud.