Visual Arts - The Durango Herald

Emin’s messy bed could fetch million at auction

LONDON – For sale: bed. Definitely slept in. Seven-figure price tag. Adventurous art collectors with deep pockets have the chance to buy British artist Tracey Emin’s “My Bed,” com...

DATE: Jun 27, 2014 | CATEGORY: Visual Arts

Jeff Koons’ whimsy takes over NYC museum

NEW YORK – Jeff Koons is taking over the Whitney Museum of American Art. The contemporary artist’s oversized toylike sculptures of a dog, gorilla, Popeye and other works spannin...

DATE: Jun 24, 2014 | CATEGORY: Visual Arts

Going to extremes to rebuild a mountaintop museum

MOUNT WASHINGTON, N.H. – Weeks spent in some of the harshest conditions Earth has to offer are finally paying off for a Boston photographer whose images are central to a refurbished museum a...

DATE: Jun 20, 2014 | CATEGORY: Visual Arts

Get a bead on it

DATE: Jun 19, 2014 | CATEGORY: Visual Arts

Bjork the subject of Museum of Modern Art exhibit

NEW YORK – Bjork will be getting her own multimedia retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York next year. The museum will draw on sound, film, visuals, instruments, co...

DATE: Jun 18, 2014 | CATEGORY: Visual Arts

Exclusive: Picasso painting reveals hidden man

WASHINGTON – Scientists and art experts finally know what’s beneath one of Pablo Picasso’s first masterpieces, “The Blue Room,” using advances in infrared imagery to reveal a hidden portrait...

DATE: Jun 17, 2014 | CATEGORY: Visual Arts

One local's eye

Wine country, waterfalls and two-wheel travel in Argentina come to life in photo exhibit

DATE: Jun 16, 2014 | CATEGORY: Visual Arts

Museum chronicles 100 years of humanitarian group

NEW YORK – A 100-year-old humanitarian assistance organization that helps Jews and non-Jews around the world is the focus of an exhibition opening Friday at the New-York Historical Society. ...

DATE: Jun 12, 2014 | CATEGORY: Visual Arts

There's a new path to art in Durango

Texas transplants open Sendero Gallery

DATE: Jun 9, 2014 | CATEGORY: Visual Arts

Professionals and paint buckets

DATE: Jun 9, 2014 | CATEGORY: Visual Arts

German museum shows live replica of van Gogh’s ear

BERLIN – A German museum has put on display a copy of Vincent van Gogh’s ear that was grown using genetic material provided by one of the 19th-century Dutch artist’s living relatives. ...

DATE: Jun 3, 2014 | CATEGORY: Visual Arts

Portraits aren’t dead, after all

In the age of abstract art, D.C. gallery finds faces

DATE: May 5, 2014 | CATEGORY: Visual Arts

Photos: Local girls high school wrestling at La Plata TriDurango girls wrestling went 2-0 to win Tri on Thursday night at Bayfield

Durango girls wrestling went 2-0 to win Tri on Thursday night at Bayfield

Photos: Fort Lewis College women’s and men’s basketball take on Westminster UniversityBoth Skyhawks teams were victorious on Saturday afternoon

Both Skyhawks teams were victorious on Saturday afternoon

Photos: An afternoon in 2004 with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell as he works on Capitol HillDurango Herald Photo Editor Jerry McBride had the chance to spend an afternoon with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell in 2004, photographing him during meetings and around the Capitol.

Durango Herald Photo Editor Jerry McBride had the chance to spend an afternoon with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell in 2004, photographing him during meetings and around the Capitol.

Photos and video: ICE protests return to DurangoAbout a dozen protesters tried to block federal agents from leaving with a detainee on Thursday