Bemis eBid

by Michael J. Krainak

That cell phone in your purse, hip-clip or back pocket gets smarter and smarter. It's no longer just about tweeting, texting, liking and the occasional butt-dial.

Today iPhones swiped across a QR code help you to check out and purchase all kinds of products and services. In addition, two new Galaxy's embrace and playlists and photo albums are exchanged.

Whatever their purpose or potential, smart phones make it...

Triple Crown

by Mary Day

“It’s been a long time,” artist Tom Bartek responded, when writer Roger Welsch, in an NETV interview asked how long Bartek had been making art. Born in 1932, Tom Bartek’s 2012 Retrospective celebrates 60 years of art making in three different venues; Creighton’s Lied Gallery (paintings), Sept. 14 – Oct. 19, Nebraska Arts Council’s Fred Simon Gallery (serigraphs), Sept. 24 – Nov. 2, and University of Nebraska...

Keep On Truckin’

by Janet L. Farber

Artists from outside Omaha have always had a presence in the local art scene. They help to keep the artistic landscape varied and lively, enhancing the conversation about how regional artists partake of a national or even international dialogue. Some of these “carpetbaggers” are shown but once, while others become returning favorites.

Among the latter, Chicago-based artist John Himmelfarb has been exhibiting his...

Co-op Opts for Provocation

by Sally Deskins

It is to be commended that the Artists Cooperative Gallery present a show of completely new work by a trio of artists on a distinct theme. The Old Market Gallery, around since 1975, as of late has been perhaps silently snubbed by the local arts scene for its rumored same-old-same-old, unprovocative shows. 

The situation is not unbelievable, with a jury of artists in the same roles in the member-gallery for...

Got Gunk?

by Mary Day

“Got Gunk?”

The Radiator Specialty Company promotes it as a line of automotive maintenance products. More precisely, the discipline of philosophy states it applies to any indivisible whole. And though a common by-product of virtually every culture, now it’s even surfaced as…are you ready...an art form.

Modern Arts Midtown is featuring this mysterious substance in a variety of colors and formats in its current...

Exchanging Glances

by Sally Deskins

Viewers might recognize painter Rebecca Herskovitz’ expressive and large images of women reclaimed from contemporary magazines in her one-night-only solo exhibit, “looking at you looking at me,” at Hoover Studios September 7.

Herskovitz’ exhibit is the second in the recently opened studio by Omaha based artist Bill Hoover in the Mastercraft Building. The artists met while working together at The Kent Bellows...