March 13, 2025
Artists

Paul Weller says younger artists should release more music

(Credits: Far Out / Press) Mon 8 January 2024 9:39, UK Paul Weller has been a consistently prolific figure in British popular music since his rise to fame with The Jam in the late 1970s, and now, he has vented his frustration at younger artists for not releasing enough music. With 16 solo albums under

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SLAM exhibition featuring St. Louis hip hop heads to Germany

ST. LOUIS — Andréa Purnell was still searching for the words to describe her feelings about bidding farewell to the Saint Louis Art Museum’s presentation of The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, which enjoyed a sold-out final day on January 1. “Sometimes it becomes more powerful than you can explain

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SLAM exhibition featuring St. Louis hip hop and visual artists heads to Germany

Andréa Purnell was still searching for the words to describe her feelings about bidding farewell to the Saint Louis Art Museum’s presentation of The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, which enjoyed a sold-out final day on January 1.  “Sometimes it becomes more powerful than you can explain to see your

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Ardest Gallery to Celebrate Black History Month Through Art Events

THE WOODLANDS, TX – Ardest Gallery, a local fine arts gallery, has announced a slate of events in February celebrating Black History Month. Black History Month was created to pay tribute to generations of African Americans and their contributions to the United States. Ardest Gallery strives to honor Black people through the presentation of art

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Calgary visual artist Jayne Hajnoczky featured in National Geographic

Jayne Hajnoczky’s photos of Canadian plants and insects are in the first section of National Geographic’s January 2024 issue. The Calgary visual artist collects items from all across Canada and uses a high-definition scanner to record them over a black background, something that caught the eye of an editor with the magazine. Now, Hajnoczky is

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Rochester to invest in local arts. Here’s how artists can apply.

The City of Rochester and Monroe County are inviting artists from underrepresented and underserved communities to join an Artist Engagement Team. The city wants to invest in the local creative ecosystem, and the artist engagement team will develop and implement strategies to contribute to these objectives. “Those facing challenges in accessing community arts participation opportunities

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Call for Artists – Celebration of the Arts

The Abound Credit Union Celebration of the Arts juried exhibition continues in 2024, hosted at the Kentucky Museum.  This competitive exhibition is open to all residents 18 years of age or older, living in a Kentucky county which falls within a 65-mile radius of Bowling Green. The exhibition is located at the Kentucky Museum on the campus of

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The 1950s artists who always stayed true to their art

To some people, the 1950s are grey years. But on the surface, the scene was far from gloomy. Sherpa Tensing and Edmund Hillary touched the ceiling of the sky in 1953, an event made memorable by a photograph, and by Hillary’s one-phrase summary of it, a masterpiece of 20th-century vernacular: “Well, we knocked the bastard

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More than 300 British artists demand Turner Contemporary take stand against “ongoing genocide in Gaza”

More than 300 British artists, curators, writers, designers and others have addressed an open letter to the Turner Contemporary, the contemporary arts space in Margate, Kent, demanding that the venue take a stand against the Israeli mass murder in Gaza. The group also includes musicians, actors, composers, teachers and educators, photographers and students. The Turner

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Artist sues SF for copyright infringement after city uses mural in ads

Artist Cameron Moberg, shown painting a mural in San Francisco’s Mission District in 2015, says the city improperly used one of his murals in an ad campaign promoting public energy.  Jessica Christian/The Chronicle 2015 A San Francisco artist is suing the city for using his mural in advertisements as part of a campaign to garner support

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