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The Bay Area has a thriving art scene. But something unprecedented has happened that will highlight an often overlooked aspect of the region’s artistic richness. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, or SFMOMA, purchased more than 100 works for its permanent collection by artists associated with East Bay non-profit Creative Growth, which works with artists

In August 2018, TikTok merged with the video app Musical.ly, and it became a sensation. In its first few months, it became the No. 1 best-selling app on the Apple store, according to a 2018 Variety article.  In the years since the app first gained attention, it has become an outlet for its 1 billion active users a month. The app

For centuries women have been relegated to the margins of the art establishment’s narrative, reduced to being merely muses or models, their worth determined by male artists. Historically therefore, there has been a startlingly drastic underrepresentation of the role women have played in the evolution of art. “They were just never noticed,” says Lee Meiling,

(Credits: Far Out / Press) Mon 1 April 2024 2:00, UK In Questlove’s book Mo Meta Blues, he touches on music’s connective ability incredibly well by talking about the week Michael Jackson’s Thriller came out. “Toward the end of 1982, Michael Jackson had released Thriller. That’s both a straightforward statement of fact and the beginning

“Arcing Shadow” by Jeff Mathison. Image provided Farmland Preservation Artists (FPA) of Central Pennsylvania will hold an exhibit April 3-30 at Schlow Centre Region Library’s Community Room.  The show, “A Sense of Place,” will feature nearly 60 pieces of art.  FPA was formed in 2005 as a joint enterprise of the Art Alliance of Central

When most people think of graffiti they think of tagging train cars and alleyways, but for one local artist, graffiti has become a paying gig. Reply is a former art student who has been doing graffiti for years. He says that one of the things that appealed to him about graffiti was just how thrilling

Jason Armond / Getty Images Billie Eilish is calling out artists who are not mindful of the environmental impact they are having by selling multiple vinyl variants to boost their album sales. The Oscar winner has been conscious about using 100% recycled black vinyl for copies of her Happier Than Ever album, using recycled scraps

Megan Wallgren | Lehi Free Press Artistic talent and hope for the future is high in Lehi schools, where entries into the PTSA Reflections art contest were among the highest in the state. Several Lehi students were honored as winners at the state level, and one talented student will go on to compete at the

Survival, a curated exhibition of Karim Abed’s work is on display in the Colleen Abbott Gallery at the Aurora Public Library to April 8 Karim Abed grew up in North Africa, an area with strong Amazigh (Berber) culture. These traditions were an integral part of his everyday life, but when his mother died, he saw