March 9, 2025
Visual artists

The second edition of the OKNOPLAST FOR ART competition | Contemporary Lynx

OKNOPLAST, in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow MOCAK, is announcing the launch of the second edition of the international competition for visual artists. Similar to the previous edition of OKNOPLAST FOR ART, the main challenge is to create artwork using any technique on a canvas, which, in this case, is a

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The Arizona Daily Star collaborates with local artists to turn newspaper into wrapping paper

How cool is this? The Arizona Daily Star collaborated with local Tucson artists to create holiday wrapping paper. Each day between December 3 and December 14, a full page of wrapping paper is included in the print newspaper. You can also visit the website to download each day’s featured art-as-wrapping-paper. The Arizona Daily Star provides more details:

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Government Notes: Cedar Rapids seeks artists for Delaney Park basketball court mural

Monica Vallejo dances with Steve Lagunas during a Sept. 15, 2022, rehearsal of the Ballet Folklórico troupe Fuerzas Culturales at Delaney Memorial Park in southwest Cedar Rapids. The city is seeking an artist or art team to create a full-court mural on the park’s basketball court. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette) The city of Cedar Rapids is

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Soviet-Era Art Luminary Karlo Kacharava Is Finally Emerging From Obscurity

Karlo Kacharava. photo by Guram Tsibakhashvili photos, 1989. When I first visited Tbilisi, Georgia, in winter 2018, I was taken to meet Lika Kacharava, and in her small apartment we drank local natural wine, ate homemade fare, and viewed many paintings, drawings, and notebooks by her late brother Karlo Kacharava. His art—renderings of brooding people

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giving a visual voice to incarcerated artists – The Southerner

Displays from the November 2022 exhibition, “Identity.” The penal system in America is designed to make incarcerated people invisible. Prisons strip inmates of their individualism, ushering them around the facility as a single entity. Feelings of despair set in as they realize that they’ve been reduced to, in the eyes of the institution their lives

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OKNOPLAST, second edition of the international competition for visual artists | Contemporary Lynx

December 11, 2023 – March 4, 2024 OKNOPLAST, in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow MOCAK, is announcing the launch of the second edition of the international competition for visual artists. Similar to the previous edition of OKNOPLAST FOR ART, the main challenge is to create artwork using any technique on a

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Art Investment

Drake Invested $100 Million In The World’s First Art Amusement Park

Cole Burston/Getty Images It’s no surprise that Drake would be the person to invest nearly $100 million in the revival of an abandoned amusement park. The reimagined park, “Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy,” was named after the original André Heller creation, Luna Luna, that debuted in Hamburg, Germany in 1987. Heller commissioned art from Jean-Michel Basquiat,

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‘Beauty must suffer’: the artist lifting the barre on ballet | Art

It begins with barre. The young girl’s left hand grips the bar, her right hand in first position, her tutu adorably upright, while she inquisitively, and somewhat nervously, looks at her reflection in the mirror. It’s a process every dancer starts with, and it’s this image that visitors see first at Beauty Must Suffer, an

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10 Solo Gallery Exhibitions to See In New York Before the End of the Year

Sagarika Sundaram. Photo: Anita Source. Courtesy of the artist and Palo Gallery. Whether you are just returning to the city from Miami or simply wanting to see what’s on in the city before the holidays, we’ve rounded up 10 solo exhibitions that are not to be missed before the end of the year. And though

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Artists for Luxembourg Song Contest 2024 announced

Auditions have been held where more than 100 artists have sung in front of a panel of national and international experts. Eight artists have thereby been selected to compete at Luxembourg Song Contest 2024. Today, the artists for Luxembourg Song Contest 2024 will be revealed. The announcements will take place throughout the day on Today

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