Newsroom
Blue Water believes that, even in a sea of digital media, relationships still matter, which is why we work hard to stay in touch with editors, writers and reporters. As a result, our clients are regularly featured in major media outlets, along with those that reach a highly targeted audience unique to their work.
Washington Post | Museum and gallery exhibits in the D.C. area this week
Oct. 9, 2024 | Eight exhibitions are on view through Dec. 8: “Ralph Steadman: And Another Thing,” “Joseph Holston: Call and Response,” “Endless Transformations: The Alchemy of Connie Imboden,” “Faces of the Republican Party,” “New American Landscapes,” “Mira Hecht: In the Center Thereof Rose a Fountain,” “Pegan Brooke: Flux II, Light on Water,” and “A Sight to Behold: The Corcoran Legacy Collection of Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century American Landscape Paintings.” 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW.
Hyperallergic | Petah Coyne’s Maximalist Art Lays Bare Women’s Oppression
Oct. 8, 2024 | Coyne’s work sits between abundance and suffocation, uses seductive materials to serve uncomfortable truths about the barriers that face women. Throughout history, women have been swaddled in satins, velvets, and crinkly chiffons with adornments so excessive that they curtail movement. Elaborate hairstyles and high heels — expressions of a culture’s fickle notions of beauty — might seem innocuous, but they too constrict women.
W Magazine | The Insider’s Guide to Honolulu
Oct. 7, 2024 | Another place worth visiting is Shangri La, Doris Duke’s former home which has been converted into a museum. The house itself—Islamic art and design in a modernist setting—is breathtaking, as is the location. Book a private tour.
See Great Art | Women artists of the Ballets Russes at McNay Art Museum
Oct. 5, 2024 | The Ballets Russes’ revolutionary costume and set designs, innovative choreography and music, and captivating themes transformed ballet in the early 20th century, and their groundbreaking work continues to influence the art form today. McNay Art Museum celebrates the dance company’s seldomly recognized contributors in “Women Artists of the Ballets Russes: Designing the Legacy,” on view October 10, 2024 through January 12, 2025.
Print Mag | The Daily Heller: “Serial Polluter” Ralph Steadman Gets the Last Laugh
Oct. 2, 2024 | Ralph Steadman’s last retrospective was cut short by COVID-19. But luckily his work is a moveable feast, and now Ralph Steadman: And Another Thing—a collection of 149 artworks and memorabilia chronicling the artist, satirist and Gonzo illustrator’s prolific and culture-shifting career—is debuting at the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center.
Hyperallergic: The Elementary School That Welcomed Keith Haring
October 2, 2024 | To My Friends at Horn is a reminder that artists do not exist in a vacuum and context illuminates the impact of the artist and activist.
Observer | Why So Many Art Museums Are Hiring Engagement Officers
Oct. 1, 2024 | The creation of engagement-focused roles reflects “a more expansive view that museums have taken in recent history that includes community partnerships, collaboration and education.”
Afar | University Museums Are Underrated Places to See Art in the U.S.—Here Are 8 of the Best
Sept. 29, 2024 | Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University: It’s a bold building, designed by Zaha Hadid—one of only four U.S. buildings by the acclaimed Iraqi British architect (and the first woman to win the Pritzker Prize). As its angular steel exterior suggests, the focus here is on contemporary art.
Vanity Fair | Fear and Loathing in DC: Gonzo Illustrator Ralph Steadman’s Life and Work
Sep. 26, 2024 | In a new exhibition, Hunter S. Thompson’s wingman showcases more than 60 years of hallucinatory art. In the 1970s, so-called gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson was riding high in nearly every sense. His books Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 had made him a counterculture icon, and his caricature repeatedly graced the nation’s newspapers in the form of Uncle Duke, the drug-fueled, gun-packing former Rolling Stone writer in Garry Trudeau’s “Doonesbury” comic strip.
ArtDaily | Chazen Museum of Art names inaugural Chief Engagement Officer
Sep. 20, 2024 | The Chazen Museum of Art has named Berit Ness as the institution’s inaugural chief engagement officer. In the new role, Ness leads the Chazen’s visitor-focused and inclusive outreach efforts that align with the Museum’s mission as a teaching and learning institution. She oversees public programs and education, marketing and communications, campus and community outreach and the visitor services program. Her appointment began Sept. 9.
Wall Street Journal: ‘Modern Masterpiece Uncovered’ Review: Retail Revelation
Sept. 11, 2024 | The Sarasota Art Museum stages an exhibition on the former Galloway’s furniture showroom, a bold, circular pavilion of wood and glass built in 1959 and designed by Victor Lundy that is in desperate need of restoration.
Artnet: ‘Style Is Nothing’: How Ralph Steadman Transformed Cartooning Into High Gonzo Art
The storied cartoonist reflects on his career as a touring retrospective kicks off in Washington D.C. You know a Ralph Steadman work when you see it. You’ll recognize his restless lines and evocative paint splatter, his grotesque visages and uncanny vistas. But for an artist with such a pointedly distinct aesthetic, Steadman won’t entertain any talk about style.
