February 8, 2025
Artists

Amid Lawsuit, Gersh Says It Has a Deal to Buy A3 Artists Departments – The Hollywood Reporter

Team Gersh: David Gersh, Leslie Siebert and Bob Gersh. Getty Images Less than a month after a lawsuit was filed against the chairman of A3 Artists Agency seeking to block its sale, rival Gersh says it has closed a deal for the digital and alternative departments of the talent firm. Some forty five staffers — twenty

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Artists

Here’s How a New Anti-Money Laundering Law Impacts Self-Employed Creatives in the U.S.

Law & Politics Artists with LLCs have until January 2025 to file the paperwork or possibly face hefty fines or jail. Adam Schrader 4 hours ago The Capitol Building in Washington, DC. Photo Nicolas Raymond, via Flickr. A law enacted in 2021 to combat money laundering, tax fraud, and corruption went into effect on January

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Visual artists

Street Artists Launch Poster Campaign for Gaza

Shepard Fairey poster based on an image taken by Palestinian photojournalist Belal Khaled in Gaza on November 8, 2023 (all images courtesy Unmute Gaza) An international street art movement featuring Palestinian photojournalism from the Gaza Strip is drawing attention to the devastating toll of Israel’s ongoing bombardment. Titled Unmute Gaza, the creative campaign reinterprets the

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Artists

Alexis Smith, Artist With Eclectic Eye on American Culture, Dies at 74

Alexis Smith, an artist who expressed a searing though affectionate vision of American culture in assemblages, installations and public art projects, died on Tuesday at her home in Venice, Calif. She was 74. Garth Greenan Gallery, which represented Ms. Smith in New York, confirmed her death. She was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2015. In

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Artists

Artist Bryan Rogers Conjures Fantastical Queer Landscapes in His New Jersey Studio

Studio Visit The painter’s solo exhibition “Wallflowers” opens at Monya Rowe in New York on Thursday, January 11, 2024. Courtesy of the artist and Monya Rowe Gallery, New York. In Bryan Rogers’s painted world, men live among the flowers. The New Jersey-based artist’s stylized landscapes brim with waterfalls and towering trees rendered with decorative, rhythmic

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Artists

SF Artist Sues City, Claiming They Illegally Used His Mural in an Ad Campaign

Muralist Cameron Moberg has plenty of public art around Bayview and Visitacion Valley, but he’s filed a lawsuit after the art allegedly turned up in a city-sponsored ad campaign without his permission. We can all get behind the idea of the City of San Francisco buying PG&E’s power grid and operating it themselves. But we

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Artists

Country Music Strides: Have Female Artists Changed A Male-Dominated Genre?

By Neve Wilkinson Throughout history, men and women have regrettably been given different roles in life. Music is no different. This article answers the question of whether female artists have been able to change a historically male-dominated genre – country music. Best-selling country music artist Shania Twain said in a CNBC interview in early 2023:

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Art Investment

Challenges of Tokenized Works of Art (Real World Asset) in 2024 and proposal of value | by Ikebana.finance | Jan, 2024

Unlocking Art Investment for All: Ikebana on Polygon — Revolutionizing the Market with Blockchain-Powered Fractionnal Ownership Historically, investing in the art market has been an exclusive domain, fraught with challenges that deterred individual investors. The high entry barriers inherent in traditional art investments, with hefty capital requirements and a focus on entire artworks, made it

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Artists

Viral list of artists whose work trained Midjourney causes anger

Artists across the world are biting back against Midjourney after two lists of artists slated to be used as training material were shared online. The generative artificial intelligence (AI) company is currently subject to a class action lawsuit that claims it has violated the rights of artists by using their works as training materials. The

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European Fine art

WUFT Antiques and Fine Art Appraisal Day – February 11, 2024

What: WUFT Appraisal Day WUFT-TV invites supporters from our community at large to bring antiques, fine art, and collectibles to a very special event where a team of appraisers will be on site to share their expertise about your prized possessions. Share the story of your collection journey with our team, and watch WUFT-TV in

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