Velvet art gets a pretty bad rap ... But why—oh why, I ask as I indignantly shake my fist at the sky—is a velvet Elvis not included in the Smithsonian collections? Immortalized in song ...

But his background in art is limited — his degree is in American ... and I’d just bought a Velvet Elvis,” he says. “It’s like there is an unseen hand guiding all of this.” ...

because MOST people around here seem to think of art as a picture of Elvis on black velvet or a gazing ball in the front yard, and if it weren’t for them this place would NEVER have a chance of ...

Art is in the eye of the beholder ... The all-time favorite subject of black velvet artists is Elvis Presley. But any image the human mind can conceive of is likely to end up on black velvet ...

Wabash Ave. The show includes, of course, the requisite portrait of Elvis on black velvet. This particular interpretation measures 8 feet by 8 feet, and was the art show`s inspiration. Buzz Kilman ...

Stephen Harper's view that only popular art deserves to be recognized (The ... would be filled with textured Kiersteads and velvet Elvis paintings. It is worth recalling, for example, that artists ...

Jimmy Velvet, curator of the museum and owner of an astounding amount of the King’s possessions, is pondering how to get a 23-foot singing Elvis, with tonsils blaring, to fit into the confines ...