“Revision” by Orion Ross is among the words in the “OUTSIDE/INSIDE” show openingThursday, May 17 during this month’s Charleston ArtWalk.

This month’s Artwalk on the streets of downtown Charleston takes place 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday, May 17, and features a one-night exhibition of two special shows.

“OUTSIDE/INSIDE” is a collection of new works curated by Mark Wolfe featuring ten artists at the Good News Garage Gallery. Artists feeatured include Keith Allen, Laura Alvis, Corby Brown, Chris Dutch, James Ferguson, Charly Hamilton, Jamie Miller, Orion Ross, Amy Williams and Mark Wolfe. There will be a video installation, multiple pieces by local award-winning artists and works by little known but up-and-coming younger artists. An original music track by Orion Ross is also featured during the opening. (more…)

Leonard Nimoy photographing nude, plus-size women for an art exhibition and photo collection? The New York Times has the story on Mr. Spock’s latest art adventure:

He knows that he is an unlikely champion for the size-acceptance movement; body image is a topic he never really thought about before. But for the last eight years, Mr. Nimoy, who is 76 and an established photographer, has been snapping pictures of plus-size women in all their naked glory.

He has a show of photographs of obese women on view at the R. Michelson Galleries in Northampton, Mass., through June; a larger show at the gallery is scheduled to coincide with the November publication of his book on the subject, “The Full Body Project,” from Five Ties Publishing…

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“Portrait of Poet Kenji Miyazawa,” color woodcut on paper, edition 9/50, 1956. Gift of Blanchette Rockefeller to Clay Center, 1969. Click to enlarge.

Jun’Ichiro Sekino was a self-taught artist known for distinctive figurative prints and kabuki scenes. He admired the work of Henri Toulouse-Lautrec and Rembrandt van Rijn, and was heavily influenced by the work of Albrecht Dürer, a supreme master of both etching and drawing 500 years ago. Sekino said of Dürer, “One of the things I like most about him is his thoroughness, his corner-to-corner completeness.” (more…)