September 26, 2024
Artists

A Show Asks Artist How We Can Reclaim Our Bodies

CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee — Entering Hand to Mouth, visitors are greeted by Todd Anthony Johnson’s six-minute performance video, “FIELD HOLLA” (2015). Showing the artist screaming amid a verdant wilderness setting, it is a jarring introduction to the exhibition, and an immediate immersion into the art. The figure remains largely motionless but the camera cuts to different

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Taylor Swift’s greedy tactics against other artists exposed by Billie Eilish

This goes to all Swifties who think Taylor Swift wouldn’t hurt a fly, she has demonstrated to have greedy tactics and is a ruthless competitor in the music space. There are other artists who have already taken note of this behavior that we still can’t figure out if it’s Swift’s initiative or her record label.

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Visual artists

How Creator Labs Buoyed Daveed Baptiste’s Practice – SURFACE

The past three years have signaled a momentous shift for Daveed Baptiste. The 27-year-old photographer, fashion designer, and visual artist is continually inspired by his Haitian-American heritage and the formative role that living in Miami and New York has played in his life. His garments, photographs, and moving image works are unflinching portraits of his intersectional

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Noguchi Museum presenting a creative concert series featuring global artists

The Noguchi Museum in Long Island City. (Photo by Elizabeth Beller) June 19, 2024 By Athena Dawson The Noguchi Museum is set to host a series of concerts on the second Sunday of each month through September. The museum has a decade-long partnership with Bang On A Can, an organization dedicated to innovative music programming,

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Artists

Juneteenth emphasizes importance of Black artists in Twin Cities

Robin Hickman is currently working with the Minneapolis Institute of Art to memorialize her uncle’s work and promote young BIPOC artists. MINNEAPOLIS — While Juneteenth is an official day for remembrance and celebration, it is also a larger cause to highlight amazing Black artists in the Twin Cities.  June 19 is marked as the official

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Orlando launches effort to bring artists downtown, boost business – WFTV

ORLANDO, Fla. — Editor’s note: This story is available as a result of a content partnership between WFTV and the Orlando Business Journal. Downtown Orlando will see an influx of musicians, dancers and more during certain parts of the day thanks to a new program. ▶ WATCH CHANNEL 9 EYEWITNESS NEWS Read More The city

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Meet the artists | Philippe Parreno

Art Basel’s ‘Meet the artists’ series presents contemporary creatives shaping today’s cultural landscape. Philippe Parreno never ceases to redefine the art of exhibition-making. Using film, performance, sculpture, and installation, the French artist orchestrates time and space to create environments where the exhibition itself is the artwork. In this installment of our ‘Meet the artists’ series,

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Visual artists

Artist Celebrates Everyday Women in “Ngemva Kokuqubuka – After Precarity”

Visual artist Bambo Sibiya’s latest solo exhibition, “Ngemva Kokuqubuka – After Precarity,” at Circa Gallery in Johannesburg, honours the beauty, dignity, and strength of everyday women. Inspired by his mother, Sibiya’s work challenges societal constructs of power and status, presenting black South African women in a regal and empowered light.   Johannesburg, South Africa (19

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‘Promil kid,’ visual artist CJ De Silva-Ong passes away

MANILA, Philippines — Visual artist CJ De Silva-Ong has passed on, her husband confirmed today. She was 36.  Ong said that his wife, CJ, suffered two strokes.  “She fought to the very end. Sadly, yesterday at 10:45 a.m., while in the ICU (intensive care unit), our beloved CJ suffered two strokes, and finally became one

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Remembering Frank Stella, one of the leading abstract artists of his generation

“When you start looking at what you’re looking at, you can go anywhere,” the American artist Frank Stella was fond of saying. Stella took close looking to so many places over a career spanning seven decades. He remade Supremacist shapes into hard-edged abstractions in the early 1960s, before reinventing himself as a sculptor of frighteningly

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