St. Petersburg’s downtown waterfront is always lively these days, and will be even more so when longtime tradition the Mainsail Art Festival returns to Vinoy Park on April 20-21. Now in its 49th year, the fine art and craft festival brings artists working in painting, photography, ceramics, glass, outdoor sculpture, jewelry, wood, fiber, metal and
Back 17 April 2024 Photo: Stefan Craemer/Alamy Stock Photo Chaka Khan’s Meltdown continues to grow in style and spectacle with new names and two weekends of free events, taking place at the Southbank Centre from Friday 14 June until Sunday 23 June. In the Royal Festival Hall, Chaka Khan has invited multi-award-winning and chart topping
Two of the world’s leading artists’ agencies, IMG Artists and TACT Artists Management, have announced a strategic alliance that will involve their vocal departments working together to pool expertise and resources. Representing some of the great vocal talent of our time, the two companies share a commitment and vision that is dedicated to fulfilling
For the recent nationwide AEP6 study by Americans for the Arts, the Arts & Cultural Alliance of Sarasota County identified more than 200 nonprofit arts and culture organizations in our area. Now imagine what happens when those 200 arts groups start collaborating with each other. The cross-pollination possibilities are endless. Just look at the annual
Venice, with its interlocking islands threaded through with canals, is so singular, so breathtaking, and, during the Biennale, so busy, it feels like an insular world unto itself. Yet, entering Josèfa Ntjam’s swell of spæc(i)es, an art-weary traveller will feel all sense of time and place melt away as they are teleported towards unexplored galaxies
Justine McAllister finishes off her work on Fourth Street, Murray Bridge on Sunday. Photo: Peri Strathearn. Five new murals have sprung to life around Murray Bridge’s CBD as part of the Wall to Wall street art festival. The festival had been announced in February and the five participating artists named in March, but their designs
An interest in art as an investment is something Verena Ruedi sees with many ANZ Private clients. “We’re very much focussed on helping our clients manage and grow their wealth in ways that support their ambitions. That might be personal, intergenerational, or other areas – like art – that are important to them.
Konvi, a European luxury assets fractional investment platform, has acquired alternative investing platforms Diversified and Fractible, bolstering its global user base to 50,000 active users. Over the past year, there has been significant consolidation in the European fractional investment space as brokers struggle with compliance costs and complexities. Konvi, as one of Europe’s leading fractional
An antiques dealer illegally sold a looted ancient Egyptian sculpture worth €190,000 ($202,000) using fake documents, police said. The Spanish gallery owner is alleged to have bought the artefact, which dates from 1450BC, from a company in Thailand, knowing it had been stolen. Spanish National Police said a Swiss gallery offering the sculpture for sale
The below is a guest post by Annabella Coldrick, Chief Executive, Music Managers Forum. You can read our guest post policy here. “In a debate that… has often been characterised more by anecdote than by evidence, facts assume even greater importance.” Geoff Taylor, former BPI CEO, August 2022 Annabella Coldrick The phrase “Government-led working group” will probably