Our arts picks this week include Nevada Ballet Theatre’s “The Nutcracker” and photographer Edward Burtynsky’s “Oil” exhibit.
Arts & Culture
Painter Pablo Picasso once described the purpose of art as “washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” Whether your preferred method involves art, literature, music or theater, here are a few culture-related gift possibilities to make the washing — and wallowing — more memorable.
Michael Ogilvie, who has helped shape the valley’s public art landscape since 2005, is set to leave town for California at the end of the year.
John Bentham experienced his first living Nativity at the First United Methodist Church in Richardson, Texas, where he grew up. Now 46 and the owner of Ivory Star Productions, he has brought a living Nativity element to the annual Glittering Lights show, which his company produces.
Louie Anderson was between gigs when he got a call from Louis C.K. offering him a role in an upcoming sitcom. Anderson accepted, then learned the details.
Terrible Herbst had been asking customers at their convenience stores across the valley to donate to Toy Drive for six weeks leading up to the 18th annual event.
Our arts picks this week include the Springs Preserve’s Holiday Express and Deana Martin’s “Holiday Cheer.”
Calling the Seven Magic Mountains public art display south of Las Vegas “an incredible boost to tourism,” the Nevada Commission on Tourism voted unanimously Wednesday to spend an additional $150,000 to support it.
Agency’s acceptance of rights to Michael Heizer’s enormous earth artwork City on private land within Basin and Range National Monument will lead to public being able to view it “soon,” Nevada’s Sen. Harry Reid said Thursday.
Lawson created jazz-flavored arrangements of “The Nutcracker” for a performance at the Winchester Cultural Center. But when he became too ill to organize the concert, fellow musicians stepped in to put together Saturday’s show.
Animal handlers at the Springs Preserve and Las Vegas Natural History Museum bring people up close and personal with living, breathing creatures.
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In Cirque Musica shows, the music is provided by local symphony orchestras — including 45 members of the Las Vegas Philharmonic, who will accompany acrobats, aerialists and other circus performers as they show off their skills.
In a three-day span, the Vitales took in Reba and Brooks & Dunn at the Colosseum; Jennifer Lopez at Axis theater at Planet Hollywood; and Sunday’s Dunham show.
Jeff Belcher wasn’t even done with his first tour of the Neon Museum when he asked how he could become a tour guide, too.