By Leader Staff Art can give solace — to the artists and the viewers. This is what five women explore in “A Warm Embrace,” the exhibition opening this weekend at Northwind Art’s Jeanette Best Gallery in Port Townsend. These artists come from across the country and around the globe to show their works, which
World famous a**hole Ernest Hemingway. Great books though. Photo courtesy of Pixabay. AIDAN HARPER SMITH | OPINION COLUMNIST | ahsmith4@butler.edu Ernest Hemingway was an alcoholic abuser. Pablo Picasso was misogynistic to the point of grotesqueness. Ye, — formerly known as Kanye West — is notoriously antisemitic. Tay K has been convicted of murder. Andy Warhol
Celebrate international women artists from history and the here and now with the 13th annual Salon sYmphoNY on International Women’s Day. The International Women Artists Salon, in collaboration with The OPTimistiks collective, has announced a return to an in-person program with venue partner Westbeth Community Center in the West Village. NYC-based woman-identifying artists will pay
DENHAM SPRINGS — It’s back! The third annual Teal Roofing Cajun Country Jam is returning to Livingston Parish and organizers promise it will be bigger and better than ever! The Teal Roofing Cajun Country Jam will be over Memorial Day weekend with a three-day festival in 2024. “We wanted to give the fans that extra
Nashville, Tenn. (TN Tribune) — In keeping with its 2024 Black History Month theme, “African Americans and Art,” the Meharry Medical College Library and Archives is hosting an unveiling of renowned local artist James Threalkill’s newest works—created specifically for Meharry Medical College. The event will take place at 4 p.m. Feb. 29 on the lower level of
Courtesy of Subject Hilde Lynn Helphenstein, AKA Jerry Gogosian, has signed with UTA. The visual artist and digital storyteller is the brains behind @jerrygogosian, a popular Instagram meme account that satirizes and comments on the global art world through viral images, videos and text pieces. UTA, the Hollywood talent, entertainment and sports company, will partner with
When Dennis Downes was 12, he was inspired by the sight of a “trail marker tree,” which Native Americans are believed to have used to designate trails and other points of interest. That led to his lifelong pastimes as a national expert on trail marker trees, as an author and as an artist whose work
Lenora Helm Hammonds, director of graduate programs for jazz studies at NCCU, said that as a developing musician, it’s important to have somewhere to play so you understand how the music works. “The musician’s journey is very much shaped by the opportunity to interact with your peers on stage and in social settings,” she said.
North Texas residents can submit an online application by March 24 for a chance to turn the historic tree into art. The City of Plano is seeking woodworkers and artists to take a piece of the Quadricentennial Bur Oak that fell in October and create artistic items to carry on the memory of the
Art Not Genocide Alliance says that any works that represent Israel are an ‘endorsement of its genocidal policies’ in Gaza. Thousands of artists, curators and museum directors have called for Israel to be excluded from this year’s Venice Biennale art fair and accused the exhibition of “platforming a genocidal apartheid state”. Israel has been facing