February 8, 2025
Artists

Experience thought-provoking artwork by LatinX artists at the Anya Tish Gallery

Houston – Two Houston-based LatinX artists, Marisol Valencia and Tatiana Escallón use different art mediums in their new exhibit Dialogues: A Convergence of Color and Form: Tatiana Escallón and Mariel Valencia. There, you’ll witness Colombian-born Tatiana Escallón’s large format abstract paintings and poetry. Escallón confronts the viewer with raw vivid markings and brilliant self-authored texts

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Detroit City Council rejects payment to international artists for downtown murals

Detroit — A $215,000 contract to paint six murals in the city to help beautify downtown before this spring’s NFL draft is getting pushback from the Detroit City Council, who say they never approved the agreement but the murals have already been painted. Detroit City Council members on Tuesday interrogated the city’s planning director on

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Snake Alley Art Fair calling for artists | The Hawk Eye – Burlington, Iowa

The 57th annual Snake Alley Art Fair is coming up June 16, and Art Center of Burlington is calling for vendors. Artists are invited to apply for a chance to show their work at the festival — a summer event staple that will be open to shoppers from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Father’s

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‘Lempicka,’ the Broadway Musical About the Art Deco Artist, Will Be Staged at Sotheby’s New York for One Night

Art World Sotheby’s upcoming selling exhibition features works by Polish artist Tamara de Lempicka, as well as exceptional Art Deco objects. Tamara de Lempicka, Paris, 1932. Courtesy of Imagno/Getty Images. “Lempicka”—the new musical recognizing the life and times of Polish artist Tamara de Lempicka, who dazzled 1920s Paris with her portraits of wealthy aristocrats—will be

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Meet The Artists On The ‘See You Next Year 2’ Album

ICECOLDBISHOP can rap on literally anything. Any tempo, any style, any sound, or even no beat at all, his quicksilver delivery takes center stage. He can adjust course on a dime, with pitch changes and energy shifts taking place with apparent ease, often when you least expect it. Since we first heard ICECOLDBISHOP in 2019,

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Drake Responds After Yasiin Bey Said He Makes ‘Pop’ Music

Drake has reacted to the debatable comments Yasiin Bey made over the weekend. On Monday night, January 15, the “Rich Flex” rapper took to his Instagram Stories to share a clip of a younger Method Man describing what Hip-Hop culture is. In his caption, Drake appears to talk directly to Bey, f.k.a. Mos Def, by

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Shepard Fairey and Randall Poster Keep The Birdsong Project Going Strong with a New Art Print Portfolio

When Wes Anderson, Martin Scorsese or Todd Phillips are looking for that perfect needle drop in their films, they’ve often turned to music supervisor Randall Poster. From Rushmore and Dogma in the 1990s to last year’s Asteroid City and Killers of the Flower Moon, he’s served as music supervisor for literally hundreds of film and

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Art school doesn’t make you an artist

The institutional barriers to pursuing creativity full-time OpinionsLory Saint-Fleur — Published January 16, 2024 3 minutes Graphic Semira Kosciuk I come from a family of artists.  Artists who moved on to doing what is considered a stable job. My dad, a painter for most of his youth, became an accountant. One of my cousins, an

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Arête Theta – Resident Artists and Performers – ArtsHub Australia

Dionysus Theatre Inc. is appointing Resident Artists and Performers for Arête Theta, to be performed August 2024 in Naarm (Melbourne).  Arête is an annual one-night-exclusive arts festival featuring debut scripts, movement pieces, visual arts, and comedy.    Arête  /əˈrɛt,əˈreɪt/ An ancient greek concept, referring to “excellence” of any kind — especially a person or thing’s

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BMW celebrates artistic journey of Esther Mahlangu. Debuting in Cape Town, the Retrospective Exhibition showcases Esther Mahlangu’s lifework, featuring the artist’s BMW Art Car as a central exhibition piece.

Munich/Cape Town. The Iziko Museums of South Africa and BMW are pleased to announce “Then I Knew I Was Good at Painting”: Esther Mahlangu. A Retrospective. The exhibition, curated by Nontobeko Ntombela, highlights Esther Mahlangu’s over 50-year long career and her meteoric rise as a contemporary artist, earning her global acclaim. The retrospective will be

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