October 18, 2024
Artists

Call for Artists: First annual Wasatch Back Art Festival

Johnny and Sherry Adolphson with their booth in Heber City. Photo: Wasatch Back Art Festival HEBER CITY, Utah — Johnny and Sherry Adolphson are tackling a new endeavor. In addition to their fine art photography business, they have secured a new venue in Heber City for the first annual Wasatch Back Art Festival. The two-day

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Artists

An artist’s-eye view of the ecological renewal at Big Basin

Quick Take Big Basin Redwoods State Park invited 18 local visual artists to meditate on what California’s oldest state park has become since the devastating CZU fires of 2020. Those artistic interpretations are now ready for the public and will be on display this Saturday. In the 1800s, before advances in photography eliminated the need

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Artists

Scott Williams, ‘greatest of all stencil artists,’ dies at 67

It was the early ‘90s and the Mission was boiling, fermenting with artists from all over the world. At least that’s how Clarion Alley’s Project co-founder Aaron Noble recalls it — an artistic melting pot. And one of the premier artists at the time — a painter fueled by coffee, tobacco and burritos — was

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Artists

Artist Felipe Pantone turns the world’s streets into his AR canvas

Grand Palais Immersif’s current exhibition Loading: Urban Art in the Digital Age is an immersive exhibition that traces the history of urban art and sheds light on the impact of digital technologies on the work of street artists. With Google Arts & Culture, we bring this beyond the gallery walls through digital storytelling and a

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European Artists

EU artists have tripled plays in 6 years, thanks Europe

European music is seeing powerful growth and Europeans are listening to themselves more as a lot of the growth comes from close to home. Music in Europe is growing, as Spotify reveal that listens to artists in the European Union have grown by 3x in six years. That’s according to Spotify’s Loud and Clear report,

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Artists

More artists boycotting UK music festivals over Barclays links to Israel

After the mass exodus of artists at The Great Escape, more are dropping out of this weekend’s Download Festival and next month’s Latitude – all over their sponsorship links with Barclays Bank. And more could follow. ADVERTISEMENT The UK music festival scene has experienced mass dropouts of late, with artists pulling out of The Great Escape,

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Artists

Greencastle artist among the winners of art alliance show

The Franklin County Art Alliance opened its 52nd annual exhibition on Sunday, June 9, with a reception and award ceremony at Calvary United Methodist Church, 150 Norlo Drive in Fayetteville. Best of Show was awarded to Cindy Roberts Downs of Clear Spring, Md., for her “Books of My Life,” and over $2,500 worth of other

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Visual artists

Art in Architecture | Fine Arts

Wall Drawing #1259: Loopy Doopy, by Sol LeWitt, in the U.S. Courthouse in Springfield, Massachusetts. Photograph by Carol M. Highsmith. The Center for Fine Arts is responsible for the commissioning and care of all artworks in the GSA Fine Arts Collection. It consists of the Art in Architecture and Fine Arts programs. The Art in Architecture

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European Art

The world’s richest are reconsidering their spending at Art Basel

People don’t trek to Art Basel in Switzerland just for fun. Famed for being the highest-quality art fair in the world, the O.G. Swiss fair is a place where people tend to stay exactly as long as they need to and no longer. “It’s not a fair like New York or Miami where there’s more going on in

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Visual artists

The Power of Visual Art in Science Communication

“JULY, 2020,” painted by Diane Burko, served as an experimental stimulus for a new study on the power of art in science communication. Image via Issues in Science & Technology. Communicators of science—journalists, educators, and researchers included—love a good graph. We lay out results on X and Y axes, in histograms and scatterplots. We place

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