Another late entry. 

Last Saturday (May 16), after doing my weekly shopping at DiGregorio’s, I stopped by White Flag Projects, where exhibiting artist Steve Powers was customizing cars with vinyl decals he took off the internet. (At least I think that’s…

Okay, this is late - precisely a week late. But social events that still hold interest a week later are rare, and the openings last Friday night (May 15) on the stretch of McPherson Avenue near the North Euclid intersection…

Sometimes it seems that White Flag Projects has taken the little engine that could as its role model. Director Matt Strauss has scheduled a busy weekend of free activities. In addition to the earlier announced afternoon of car customization by New York artist…

This week St. Louis has turned into the chess capital of the nation. The Central West End is hopping with the U.S. Chess Championship being held at the St. Louis Chess Club and Scholastic Center on Maryland Avenue near the…

You won’t find the St. Louis Art Museum offering to customize your car with vinyl slogans for free - and maybe that’s just as well. But White Flag Projects, arts community agitator Matt Strauss’s non-profit art place, is doing just…

The Contemporary Art Museum has announced that Douglas Fogle, Melissa Franklin and Laura Steward will serve as jurors for the next Great Rivers Biennial, to be held in 2010. A collaboration between the Contemporary and the Gateway Foundation, the biennial…

Ernest Trova, the most famous St. Louis visual artist of the post-war era, has died. Mr. Trova, 82, was born in Clayton in 1927, and he always lived in the St. Louis area. At the…

Elizabeth Peyton, one of the hottest artists in the country at the moment, was in St. Louis over the weekend. She was sighted at the Contemporary Art Museum opening/performance for the New York based group “evas arche und…

The best visual arts exhibition in St. Louis that no one has seen is “One Loses One’s Classics ” - a line drawn from Samuel Beckett’s “Happy Days” - which closes this weekend at White Flag Projects on Manchester  near the corner of…

Printmaker extraordinaire and wildman Tom Huck was responsible for a cookin’ New Year’s Eve Party at Matt Strauss’ White Flag Projects. Last night (Tuesday, Feb. 10), he was the honoree and chief exhibit of another party that was several rungs…