More than 100 artists from Southern Nevada (and beyond) will showcase their creations during the two-day festival, which also includes entertainment and children’s activities.
Arts & Culture
Troy Heard’s Majestic Repertory Theatre company will bring the musical and its audience close together.
Our arts picks this week include the Las Vegas Philharmonic’s Symphonic Spectacular and the “Age of Chivalry” Renaissance Festival.
Opening Friday at UNLV’s Marjorie Barrick Museum, “Edward Burtynsky: Oil” offers striking images — and undeniable food for thought — as the award-winning Canadian artist and photographer explores what he calls “a key building block of modern civilization.”
Italian police have found two Van Gogh paintings that were stolen from an Amsterdam museum in 2002 hidden in a farmhouse near an organized crime syndicate’s Naples-area stronghold.
Our arts picks this week include “Beautiful — The Carole King Musical” and singer-songwriter Iris DeMent.
Catching up on the news after a week’s vacation in Seattle, I spied a front-page story in the Review-Journal that lifted my spirits. A group of local art lovers is giving it a go to create a fine arts museum.
Some people enjoy their work so much, they’d do it even if they didn’t get paid. Summerlin-area resident Karan Feder is one such person.
Attend “Seth” Carlos Mongrut’s performance, and you may come away with more than an appreciation for music. Mongrut said he wants his poetry, music and dialogue with the audience to further a sense of connectedness. It’s a sense of brotherhood he said he’s felt since converting to Judaism.
Two empty lots in Reno could soon be home to an art installation courtesy of Burning Man 2016.
The Mojave Desert four hours southwest of Las Vegas is a dry, lifeless, unforgiving wasteland that most of civilized society does its best to avoid. It’s also what made it the perfect spot for the seventh annual Wasteland Weekend.
The Life Is Beautiful festival starts up again at 2 p.m. Saturday afternoon.
The first day of the annual Life Is Beautiful Festival kicked off Friday, as crowds of people began to arrive in downtown Las Vegas, but not everyone was feeling festive. Some business owners say the festival hurts profits.
At $285, the Life is Beautiful 3-day pass isn’t cheap. But scattered around the festival grounds are a number of goodies — even food — you can get for free.
The festival gates will open for the first time at 2 p.m. Friday for 2016’s Life Is Beautiful.
