August 12, 2024
Artists

Tivoli Artists Gallery and Sustainable Hudson Valley present a new spring exhibition | Local Announcements

TIVOLI — The Tivoli Artists Gallery (TAG) and Sustainable Hudson Valley are present a new spring Exhibition Our Only Planet: Art for Sustainability! with an opening reception 5-7 p.m. April 27 at Tivoli Artists Gallery, 60 Broadway Tivoli. The environmentally themed exhibit will feature images that highlight the urgent need to protect our planet and

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Odd one out like James Baldwin: black artist Glenn Ligon on writer’s essay about alienation that inspires him, and his first Greater China solo show

The experience of being the odd one out at school might have drawn him to Baldwin’s essay, he says. Although New York was and is full of black people, Ligon says he still found what Baldwin wrote about alienation and blackness mirroring his own feelings. US conceptual artist Glenn Ligon, who is coming to Hong

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Young Texas Artists Get a Centerstage Moment With Some Bach, Beethoven and Barbecue at Conroe’s Crighton Theatre

Arts nonprofit Young Texas Artists (YTA) put on an evening of down-home Texana and concert classics at its benefit gala dubbed “Bach, Beethoven & Barbecue” at Conroe’s Crighton Theatre. The three-part celebration included a dinner with dancing and a live auction; a Finalists’ Concert & Awards presentation featuring performances from eight rising classical music stars; and

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Visual artists

Visual art classes for kids in Brooklyn | Brooklyn Bridge Parents

Our overview of art classes in Brooklyn features opportunities for kids of all ages to explore visual art at any level, from drop-in toddler classes to advanced courses for teens. These studios specialize a variety of media, from painting and drawing to ceramics and sculpture to weaving, crocheting, and more textile arts! Each listing includes

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Parallax Art Center to Close June 30

Pearl district gallery Parallax Art Center will be closing June 30, announced executive director Chandra Glaeseman late last week “with great sadness.” “Despite our best efforts, we have been unable to secure the necessary funding to sustain our operations,” Glaeseman wrote. “As I am writing this, I’ve had to navigate the ever-present piles of human

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Drake, J. Cole concert could spark A-list artists to come to OKC

UP AT EIGHT THIS MORNING FOR THAT CONCERT. YEAH, EVAN. AND THEY’RE STILL LINING UP NOW FOR DRAKE AND JAY COLE THAT ARE GOING TO BE HERE IN OKLAHOMA CITY FOR A TWO NIGHT TOUR. WE’RE GOING TO SHOW YOU THE LINE. THIS IS JUST ONE OF THE LINES. IT LITERALLY IS HALFWAY BACK ON

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Why Are African Artists Distancing Themselves from Afrobeats?

Afrobeats has been undergoing a reckoning, especially as the nominal term used to represent the wide range of popular music from West African (and generally African) artists. This is hugely significant for the sake of cultural nuance because of how much weight is attached to names culturally and spiritually in most, if not all, African

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Art Investment

Art Investment | USA Wealth Report 2024

I am sometimes amazed by the many changes that the global art market has experienced in the past 10 years or so. Covid-19 can be blamed for some of these shifts, as it forced the art market to close for a short time and virtually reinvent itself. To cite a few examples, printed catalogues at

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Glenview artist opens abstract art exhibit at Glenview Library

Glenview abstract artist Emmett Kyoshi Wilson is opening his sixth solo exhibition, “VisAbility Exhibition,” at the Glenview Public Library, on a very significant day — March 21. That happens to be World Down Syndrome Day. The artist has Down Syndrome. The exhibit will run through May 15 and include a May 9 celebration of Emmett’s

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WKRG names Paris native as ‘Favorite Artist’ at Fairhope Arts & Crafts Festival

FAIRHOPE, Ala. (WKRG) — The Fairhope Arts & Crafts Festival has come to an end and WKRG has named our favorite artist for 2024. Elberta veteran gets a new home thanks to Homes For Our Troops Over 200 artists from 34 states and Canada came to Fairhope to show off their work at the 72nd

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