Topeka gallery to show paintings by artists, animals

Five Topeka artists challenged their creative spirits when they collaborated with Topeka Zoo animals to craft artwork that will be featured at a local gallery during March’s First Friday Artwalk. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports work of the artists and their animal painting partners will be featured from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday at the NexLynx Gallery of Art, 123 S.W. 6th.

Diego Rivera’s Cubist masterpiece arrives at LACMA

Two paintings by Diego Rivera, including his 1915 Cubist masterpiece, have joined “Picasso & Rivera: Conversations Across Time,” an exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art that opened in December. “Zapatista Landscape” and “Flowered Canoe” had been on loan to the Grand Palais in Paris for “Mxico 1900-1950: Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Jos Clemente Orozco and the Avant-Garde.”

Things to do in the Myrtle Beach area on Jan. 28

This photo shows a poster of “Science Cinema,” with Disneynature’s “Chimpanzee.” Free screenings are at 10 a.m., noon and 2 p.m. Satruday at the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences at Whiteville, 415 S. Madison St. It’s 77 minutes long and rated G. Details at 910-914-4185 or www.naturalsciences.org.

Lawmaker removes Capitol Hill art with pig in police uniform

In this Jan. 5, 2017, photo, a painting by David Pulphus hangs in a hallway displaying paintings by high school students selected by their member of congress on Capitol Hill in Washington. Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., has removed a painting that showed a pig in a police uniform, one of hundreds of artworks on display at the Capitol and sponsored by a member of Congress.

International Collaboration Brings Medieval Art to the DMA

Thanks to an international collaboration, visitors to Art and Nature in the Middle Ages, a new exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art, have an opportunity to explore a remarkable collection of medieval art rarely seen in the United States. The exhibition, organized by the Muse de Cluny, muse national du Moyen ge, Paris, traces the significance of nature in medieval art and life.