September 27, 2024
Artists

Gold Country artists share their unique artistic journeys | Prospecting

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Artists

How Limitless Live is inspiring the next generation of artists

A paid for ad feature for viagogo. Camden is one of London’s key cultural hotspots. But NME’s not here for the iconic market, the street food, or the day drinking. Instead, we’re at Roundhouse, which has hosted the free music festival Limitless Live since its inception. The brainchild of Tolu Farinto, who founded Limitless in

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Artists

Nicole Eisenman is one of the best American painters working right now

If Nicole Eisenman were not there to make them acquainted, the paintings she makes in the morning wouldn’t recognize those she makes in the afternoon. Her artworks, the subject of a glorious career retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, feel like determined exercises in how to bear the complexity of her own mind.

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Artists

Featured Blog | Solo-Devs and Risk-Takers (An Artistic Exploration of Experimental Tools)

A while ago I posted on social media that I would love an event that celebrates work specifically from solo-developers, so that projects made by “just one person” don’t have to constantly compete with work created by teams. Making work on your own is difficult when you’re held to such high standards. The conversation kind

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European Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 7, Europe in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution

The latter half of the eighteenth century was an era of contradictions: unparalleled luxury and abject poverty; absolute monarchs and republican pamphleteers; unquestioned faith and reasoned skepticism; Rococo fantasy and classical purity—an epoch that witnessed the splendid, waning hours of the old order and the violent birth of the modern age. For the privileged few,

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Artists

British Pavillion Artist John Akomfrah Uses Water and Sound to Synthesize Big Ideas

The Olympics-style structure of the Venice Biennale is special because it’s unique, but it is also unique for a reason: art and nationalism—even the soft, cultural kind—rarely align in their goals. This consideration was on Sir John Akomfrah’s mind as he prepared to represent the United Kingdom at the prestigious exhibition.  The 66-year-old artist, well-known

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Artists

Roni Horn, the Shape-Shifting Artist, Has Four Shows Opening This Spring

The artist Roni Horn considers herself an “off brand” in more ways than one. “I’m not even sure I’m a visual artist,” she said recently during a visit to her large Manhattan studio, incongruously located in a high-end Chelsea apartment building. Those statements may sound self-deprecating coming from someone with four solo exhibitions at galleries

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Maurizio Cattalan, Zoe Soldana collaborate in iconoclastic Vatican exhibition inside women’s prison

VENICE, Italy — A pair of nude feet — dirty, wounded and vulnerable — are painted on the façade of the Venice women’s prison chapel, the work of Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan and part of the Vatican’s pavilion at the Venice Biennale contemporary art show in an innovative collaboration between inmates and artists. That Cattelan

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Visual artists

In Venice, Julie Mehretu Puts Her Art Into Context

For the painter Julie Mehretu, whose works are currently on display at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice, a solo retrospective held little appeal. Instead, she chose to include other artists from a range of disciplines. “Collective study is something I’ve been interested in for a long time,” she said by phone from Florence, Italy, “and

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Visual artists

How the Verbal and Visual Intersect in Museums – American Alliance of Museums

Even in visually driven environments like museums, words can make a big difference. Here’s how staff at the Columbia Museum of Art have experimented with language interventions in their visitor experience. Intentional letter writing within a Van Gogh exhibition. Image by Drew Baron. Jump to beginning of article A picture is worth a thousand words.

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