PLANTATION, Fla. – Lisa Botto Lee is a South Florida-based artist whose work will make it to the moon. She is the fifth generation of artists in her family and has painted countless portraits over the years, but the piece that made history was “Beyond The Window.” She painted the portrait of a woman who
This week the Opera de Bellas Artes is set to revive Verdi’s “Giovanna d’Arco” for the first time in 167 years. The company will showcase a cast of leading Mexican artists, including legendary tenor Ramon Vargas, who last year celebrated his 40th anniversary at the legendary Mexican theater. Throughout his illustrious career, Vargas has received
A3 Artists Agency is shuttering. A3 COO Todd Quinn informed staff in an email Friday, writing, “The decision was not made lightly and comes after extensive analysis. Despite our best efforts, we find ourselves unable to continue operating in a sustainable manner.” Final paychecks will be sent to staff on Monday, which will be its
The Illinois agency responsible for publicly funding the arts is reorganizing in an effort to better reach underserved areas after collecting feedback from artists, arts organizations and public officials across the state. “We heard our application was very cumbersome,” said Illinois Arts Council board Chair Nora Daley, who was appointed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker in
Without formal training, she simply does “art from the heart”, her parents said. The self-taught artist has won several local and international awards. She is also a regular at exhibitions organised by ART:DIS, a local non-profit organisation dedicated to creating learning and livelihood opportunities for persons with disabilities in the arts. “Her works have always
Since 2017, Willow Goldstein has spent her time cooking up the Bakery Atlanta. But the result isn’t pastries or sweets like the name suggests. Instead, the Bakery Atlanta is a haven for the city’s art scene: a collective of artists, curators and administrators that host and produce galleries and events. Goldstein, the founder, owner, operator,
In recent years, Matthew Mazzotta, a visual artist who completed a Loeb Fellowship at Harvard GSD in 2018, has produced site-specific installations that have caught the art world’s attention, one of them being a giant pink flamingo inside Tampa’s central airport terminal. Now, Mazzotta has completed what he calls his “quietest artwork” to date in
Tove Langridge, the Instagram-famous owner of TW Fine Art gallery in Brisbane, has been charged with theft after he refused to return works given to him on consignment. Queensland Police obtained search warrants and raided addresses tied to Langridge in mid-December, authorities confirmed by email to Artnet News. Langridge, 46, has been charged with nine
Getty Images Artists have secured a small but meaningful win in their lawsuit against generative artificial intelligence art generators in what’s considered the leading case over the uncompensated and unauthorized use of billions of images downloaded from the internet to train AI systems. A federal judge refused to acknowledge that the companies can avail themselves
Four years ago, the pandemic hit and the peso was decimated, beginning a period of intense instability in Mexico City. Digital nomads flooded into the city, resulting in astronomical rent hikes but also the minting of a new collector base. The peso has since recovered—it is now at a seven-year high—and business at the 20th-anniversary