February 8, 2025
European Fine art

Review: ‘Multiple Realities’ at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis

Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum outside of New York City—a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention. Zbigniew Rybczyński, Take Five, 1972. Courtesy the artist “The world promised by the leaders of the October Revolution was not merely supposed to be

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Visual artists

Aesthetics, ethics and economy: a virtuous triangle to promote visual arts as a public good in the Caribbean

The global art market has experienced significant fluctuations over the past two years, with the effects of COVID-19 leading to a major digital transformation. To address the challenges and opportunities posed by these changes for young Caribbean artists and cultural professionals, the UNESCO programme Transcultura: Integrating Cuba, the Caribbean, and the European Union through Culture

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European Artists

London must now defend its status as Europe’s best city for art

Pablo Picasso’s 1932 masterpiece is on display at Sotheby’s in London (Aaron Chown/PA) (PA Wire) Reflecting on London’s art scene from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s ignites a rush of excitement for me, marked by the opening of Tate Modern, the captivating Louise Bourgeois installation at the Turbine Hall, the birth of Frieze Art

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Artists

Judge Puts Hip Hop Artist’s Battery Suit Against A$AP Rocky on Hold

A judge Thursday placed a stay on a hip hop artist’s lawsuit against A$AP Rocky pending the outcome of the rapper’s criminal case, in which he is charged with pulling a gun on a hip hop artist during a 2021 altercation in Hollywood and then firing at him soon afterward. The 35-year-old entertainer — whose

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Artists

Calumet artist creates Sauna Week poster | News, Sports, Jobs

A press Thursday release from Finlandia Foundation National, announced that National Sauna Week, Feb. 18-24, celebrates its third year with a new look: the winning entry in the inaugural poster art competition. Debbie Paver of Calumet, Michigan, submitted the winning poster entry and says, “I am incredibly excited to be a

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Artists

AI imagines what the world’s most famous artists would have made of container shipping

The year 1956 is widely considered the moment when container shipping was born. On April 26 that year, American trucking entrepreneur Malcom McLean put 58 trailer vans aboard a refitted tanker ship, the SS Ideal X, and sailed them from Newark, New Jersey to Houston, Texas.  The same year has a few similarities with today’s

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Artists

Harlem Stage, Sugar Hill Salon, And Concert Artists Guild Present An Evening Of Chamber Music By Living Composers Of Color, February 23

Harlem Stage has teamed up with Sugar Hill Salon and Concert Artists Guild to present a special installment of its beloved series Uptown Nights that will showcase chamber music written by living composers of color. The Friday, February 23 concert marks the first collaboration between the organizations, and the first time artists from Sugar Hill

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Artists

EPCC hosts ‘Sun City Portfolio Day’ to help future artists

EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) – Nearly 400 visual art students from different school districts including El Paso, Socorro and Ysleta, along with the El Paso Community College (EPCC), had the opportunity to meet and present their art portfolios to 19 colleges and universities from across the nation on Sun City Art Portfolio Day held Thursday,

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Artists

HyunA’s agency declines to comment on the artist’s ‘private life’

On January 19 KST, HyunA‘s agency AT AREA responded to various media inquiries regarding the female soloist’s dating news with the curt comment, “Dating is a matter that is strictly private to the artist. AT AREA does not interfere in the private affairs of its artists.” Likewise, a representative of Yong Junyung‘s agency Black Made also

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Artists

The Famed Artist’s Life is Explored in Dazzling Color

January 18, 2024 @ 4:30 PM Oftentimes, documentaries stand too far away from their subjects so the degrees of separation that come with time aren’t always a negative for the subgenre, but there’s no denying the magic that comes with a first-hand approach. “Frida,” the new documentary by Carla Gutierrez playing in competition at Sundance,

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