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.” ...

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 ...

Three cheers for art-o-rama. Whether hoity-toity academes ... There are the icons: Elvis (primitive), Elvis (Vegas era), Elvis on black velvet. And anyone who thought black velvet paintings ...

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 ...