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DIA opens new Islamic galleries
The Detroit Institute of Arts opens its new Islamic art galleries Feb. 28.
The galleries include art from the Meditteranean, the Middle East, Central Asia and India - from the Seventh to 20th centuries.
Islamic art refers to the regions of the world where there are longstanding Muslim communities and where Islamic culture has had great influence.
The galleries are arranged according to seven themes.
These include The Silk Road, Masterpieces of Carpet Weaving, Art of the Great Empires, The Medieval Islamic World, and Sacred Writings from the Islamic World.
Windsor photographer criticized for selling Route 66 photosWindsor photographer Sandi Wheaton couldn’t believe it when she got an e-mail from someone accusing her of profiting from her travel pictures of Route 66.
Wheaton, who had long worked as a videographer for General Motors in Oshawa and then Detroit, lost her job last year.
While devastated by the news it opened up a new career by allowing her to pursue her “passion” as a full time freelance photographer.
But it wasn’t any ordinary stop-the-car-and-take-a-picture trip.
Wheaton put a camera on her Jeep’s dashboard. With a time-lapsed device the camera shot a picture every three seconds.
Altogether there are more than 60,000 pictures from the 2400-mile trip.
LaSalle artist Liz Lojewski's work is pop and feminine-influenced
Meet Elizabeth Lojewski.
This 20-year-old LaSalle resident has already compiled an impressive art portfolio that mixes mediums and ranges over a variety of genres.
Lojewski, in her third year studying visual arts at the University of Windsor, has exhibited at the university’s Lebel gallery, Phog Lounge, Milk and Artcite.
Lojewski describes herself as a photographer first and works extensively in digital photography because of its “unlimited” possibilities.
Native son's graphic meditation on life in Essex County
His name is Jeff Lemire. He is a chronicler of Essex County.
But a chronicler of a different kind.
Jeff is a graphic novelist. His are books of cartoons. They’re stories evocative of life, places and time that are easily recognizable to anyone who grew up in the county or even has some familiarity with it.
His latest, The Complete Essex County, has just been published by Top Shelf press. Palace open to screening independent films
Palace Cinemas owner Chris Woodall says he’s open to broadening the type of movies the venerable downtown theatre screens.
Woodall, whose firm purchased the Palace and Lakeshore Cinemas from former owner Jim Shaban a year and a half ago, said the theatre is doing decent enough business but he would like to get “more bums in the seats.”
Under Shaban the theatre had occasionally screened an independent film and had been made available to the Windsor International Film Festival (WIFF). This year WIFF consolidated all its screenings at the nearby Capitol Theatre.
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And since she now had some time on her hands she decided to take a two-month journey along America’s famed Route 66, snapping pictures on the way.
