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.

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

Rabbit holes + seeing red

Michelle Graves, Core Contemporary’s latest artist in residence, reflects on the process of creating a new body of work in one short month

/ January 30, 2023

‘A force for good’

Las Vegas artists remember arts champion Cindy Funkhouser, who died on Dec. 23

/ January 5, 2023

Ball point bliss

Chad Scott's neon clouds and fridge-sized colorfields are profoundly meditative

/ December 15, 2022

Pop autobiography

It's easy to love the work of Miguel Rodriguez like you love a Taylor Swift song. It's familiar yet innovative, relatable as heck, and crafted to perfection.

/ December 13, 2022

Identity in America

Gwaylon Leaf explores appropriation, authenticity, and the overlap where it's hard to discern the difference

/ November 8, 2022

‘Transformers’ at Reno City Hall

A traveling exhibition curated by JK Russ shows what some of Nevada's most ambitious artists have in common

/ September 28, 2022