February 8, 2025
Artists

Artist Spotlight: SaeJin Lee | Anabaptist World

Anabaptist World:  How did you become an artist? SaeJin Lee: Understanding and accepting myself as an artist has been a journey. As a child, I simply remember spending a lot of time creating — drawing, painting, making paper dolls and clothes, singing, etc. In my teenage years, my family immigrated to the United States from

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Artists

More Spatial Audio tracks could flood into Apple Music as artists encouraged by 10% royalty boost for surround sound format streams

Apple Music will now pay up to 10% more to artists who create music in its immersive spatial audio format, as the company looks to push its surround sound format.  According to Music Business Worldwide, from January “music available in Spatial Audio on Apple Music will receive a greater share of royalties from the platform.”

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Artists

GQ Absorbing Pitchfork is Bad for Music Artists, Fans

Not everyone likes Pitchfork Media. Its reviews, with their clever 0.0 – 10.0 ranking system, have been loved by fans of bands many had never heard of but often decried by more popular artists for whom the publication’s critics rarely had an affinity. But, the announcement that the three-decades-old organization is being absorbed by men’s

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How a Sojourn Into Tribal Politics Awoke Artist Natalie Ball to the Power of the Personal

Natalie Ball with two of her children, 2022. Photo: Kunu Bearchum and Tim Keenan Burgess. Courtesy of artist. A solo show at the Whitney is a major achievement for any artist, but in the case of Natalie Ball, whose exhibition “Bilwi naats Ga’niipci” currently occupies the museum’s first-floor gallery, the feat is extra impressive.   Just

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Artists

Shabran hosts artists’ symposium ‘In Footsteps of Heritage’

A symposium of artists themed “In the Footsteps of Heritage” (İrsin izi ilə) will take place in Shabran on January 22-27. The event is co-organized by Leyla Khazari Art-Gallery and Shabran Wellbeing Resort to demonstrate Azerbaijan’s rich heritage, traditions and examples of ancient arts through the eyes of contemporary artists, Azernews reports. The project aims

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European Art

The Met risked messing up its great European galleries – and it paid off | Lifestyle

NEW YORK – I visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the first time 40 years ago, during my freshman year in college. I went with two friends, and before arriving, we strategized how to make the best of the few hours we had there. Someone made an unorthodox proposal, which we unanimously accepted: We

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Art Investment

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Visual artists

Talking With Iron & Wine’s Sam Beam About His First Visual Arts Exhibition

Sam Beam, Recent Visual Works | Through Sunday, Jan. 28 |  Peel Gallery, Carrboro Last week, Sam Beam found himself in an unfamiliar though not entirely unexpected position: holding court at his own art opening. Best known as the singer-songwriter behind Iron & Wine, Beam, who lives in Durham, spent much of his life pursuing

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European Art

the mysterious master of the surreal – European CEO

Moralistic depictions of debauchery and temptation are enduring themes in Bosch’s work It’s 500 years on and we’re still no closer to understanding the personal circumstances that inspired Hieronymus Bosch’s often-macabre visualisations of the strange, the biblical and the mundane. As few as 20 paintings and eight drawings of Bosch’s oeuvre remain today, and even

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European Art

Prestigious Rome hotel welcomes guests to its over 1,000 piece private art collection

A luxury five-stare hotel in Rome, boasting a collection of over 1000 extraordinary artworks, is now welcoming visitors with guided tours. ADVERTISEMENT The Cavalieri Waldorf Astoria, hailed as Rome’s most prestigious hotel and a favoured choice among celebrities like Leonardo DiCaprio and George Clooney, is now, for the first time, opening its doors to guided

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