March 12, 2025
Artists

Artists You Should Know: Meg Elsier Elicits the Visceral on New Singles “Iznotreal” and “Baby”

Nashville-based meg elsier creates sonically volatile and brooding indie rock bristling with vociferous energy. She might only have three singles out right now but she’s got big plans for 2024. But between them, even the trio of releases she’s shared so far embody a depthless dive into the intimately hidden reaches of her mind. Originally

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Apple might soon pay artists more for offering their music in Atmos

Most of today’s biggest music releases already come with a Dolby Atmos mix alongside the traditional stereo version, but Apple is apparently determined to increase the format’s adoption even further. Bloomberg is today reporting that the company is planning to give “added weighting” to songs that offer an Atmos mix; this could potentially increase the

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Burlington County Celebrates Longtime Mount Laurel Artist Virginia Marchiondo

Mount Laurel artist Virginia Marchiondo displays her painting that recreates the iconic 9/11 image of first responders raising a flag at Ground Zero in Manhattan, New York. (Courtesy of Burlington County) Virginia Marchiondo started drawing when she was 15 years old during her classes in school. “I was supposed to be paying attention, but I

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Recent exhibit shines spotlight on Samohi artists

With so many extracurricular choices at Santa Monica High School, the campus’ robust visual arts department can sometimes stay under the radar as students hone a variety of craft skills. Going into the winter season, the department is undetected no longer, as locals flocked to the Samohi Roberts Art Gallery on Dec. 7 for the

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Artist Germaine Arnaktauyok receives Governor General arts award

Arts and Culture  Dec 11, 2023 – 8:30 am EST Inuk among several artists honoured at Rideau Hall ceremony Gov. Gen. Mary Simon, right, presents an Artistic Achievement Award to visual artist Germaine Arnaktauyok at a ceremony honouring visual and media artists at Rideau Hall, the Governor General’s official residence in Ottawa, on Friday. (Photo by

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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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