Published Sunday, January 18, 2009
Reveling in risks
By LINDSEY HOWALD
of the Tribune’s staff
The artists of the Columbia Art League’s “Politically Speaking” exhibition are a little worried. It’s written all over their artwork, on so many collage and mixed-media pieces with their slashing lines, angles and juxtapositions.
BEHIND THE SCENES
Will artists enjoy amazing
adventures with Obama?
By LYNN ISRAEL
of the Tribune’s staff
On Tuesday, we will have an author of two best-selling books take the oath of office. And this afternoon, a blowout inaugural bash at the Lincoln Memorial includes such luminaries as Sheryl Crow, James Taylor, Garth Brooks, John Legend and Denzel Washington.
Ferrell offers a Bush surprise
Chris Rock lands a book deal
Gazarra gains Harvey honor
MUSIC
Beyonce, Brooks highlight inaugural bash
By DAVID BAUDER
of The Associated Press
NEW YORK - Judging by the lineup, today’s inaugural celebration for Barack Obama at the Lincoln Memorial is drawing music’s top names.
LIVE
MUSIC
Visual arts
Hot new art shows thaw winter’s blast
By LYNN ISRAEL
of the Tribune’s staff
The perfect storm of cold weather and great new art has hit Columbia, and the forecast is for a deluge of fresh visions. The art exhibits in the area showcase a diversity of talent, including work by graduate students, young creators and professional artists, and the shows offer everything from paintings, drawings, video, photography, sculpture, ceramics and
printmaking
Nora Othic shares ‘vibrant’ rural vision in latest CMU show
Stretch your metaphysical imagination a bit, and you might conjure up a molecular geneticist working with an artist’s palette of DNA segments from Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood and Edward Hopper to create a hybrid creature of the arts known as Nora
Othic.
NICHE: A WEEKLY PEEK AT AN AREA ARTIST
Eric Seat
By LINDSEY HOWALD
of the Tribune’s staff
Eric Seat is a different kind of illustrator.
In a career field increasingly populated by graphic designers toting Macbooks, he works with traditional media - acrylics, oils, board.
EXHIBITS
Performing arts
‘Rent’ reunion
By MARK KENNEDY
of The Associated Press
NEW YORK - When "Rent" debuted on Broadway in 1996, Gwen Stewart was there. When the curtain came down on its final performance last year, she came back to be there, too.
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STAGE
