All posts by Brent Holmes

Brent Holmes is a wizened veteran of the Las Vegas arts and journalism scene, a lonesome cowboy riding the high desert who occasionally wanders in to communicate dispatches on the innumerable goings on in this thing called civilization. Beware his haggard stare and keen eye.

Thrift drones

Joseph DeLappe, a former UNR art professor now in Scotland, collected thrift store art for a series critiquing U.S. military policies. He just released them back into Las Vegas-area thrift stores.

/ November 24, 2023

Ancestral knowledge

Iyana Esters' photographs highlight tradition in contemporary Black life

/ October 25, 2023

Jen Urso’s answer to giant, conspicuous land art

When it comes to resource consumption, the Phoenix artist, now showing in Overton, brings some nuance into the conversation

/ September 28, 2023

Q+A with April Bey

Touched by colonialism and dystopia, the Bahamian artist creates portals of escape for herself and us all

/ August 21, 2023

Deeply compelling transgressions

Audrey Barcio's feminist abstractions

/ August 8, 2023

Rethinking land art at the Barrick

'Modern Desert Markings' is a beautiful exercise in how we carry ideas forward and prevent them from stagnating

/ July 5, 2023

Radiant return

Justin Favela is one of Las Vegas's biggest creative exports. His solo exhibition at Nuwu is something of a homecoming.

/ May 4, 2023

Demecina Beehn has brought us the world

The Bellagio's 'In Bloom' is a sumptuously curated, socially aware pageant of blue-chip works, in wondrous combinations

/ April 18, 2023

Linda Alterwitz on love + loss

The Las Vegas artist mixes science and emotion in her latest installation, now on view at the Lilley

/ March 14, 2023

Mind + body

Las Vegas Academy's Anorien Breathes is one of this year’s Scholastic Art Awards winners

/ January 31, 2023