March 9, 2025
Artists

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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Artists

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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Artists

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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Visual artists

‘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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Artists

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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Artists

Aliens, artists, or pranksters? Another ‘mysterious’ monolith appears

KSNV, LMVPD, CNN (CNN) — Another “mysterious” monolith has been spotted. This time, on a Las Vegas hiking trail in Nevada, according to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD). “We see a lot of weird things when people go hiking like not being prepared for the weather, not bringing enough water … but check

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Artists

Interview with Somerville artist Karen Moss

Recently I had a chance to talk with Karen Moss at her space in the Miller Street Studios in Somerville, Mass. I was introduced to her work at “Open Studios” – an event that the Somerville Arts Council puts on yearly. She told me that her work is always “about something” often touching on the

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European Artists

Young French artist holds first exhibition outside of Europe

Untitled, 2023, Oil on canvas, Courtesy Galerie Claire Gastaud and Copyright Milène Sanchez A series of exhibitions dedicated to French artists at the ICICLE Cultural Space in Shanghai throughout 2024 continues this summer with Milène Sanchez, one of the most promising young talent of the new painting scene. This is Sanchez’s first exhibition outside Europe,

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