September 23, 2024
Artists

7 artists from ‘Delta Triennial’ to speak at AFMA on Thursday

‘DELTA TRIENNIAL’ ARTIST TALKTHURSDAY 7/25. Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts. 6 p.m. Free.  Seven states is a lot of geographical ground to cover in one exhibition, but the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts is doing its darndest not to cut any corners with “Delta Triennial,” its newest excavation of the Mid-South region. Comprising 46 artists

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Visual artists

The Collie Art Prize – Entries open on 7 October 2024! Opportunities – ArtsHub Australia

The highly anticipated Collie Art Prize is back for 2025, bringing together talented artistsfrom across Australia. With over $60K in prize money up for grabs, next year’s competitionpromises to be the most exciting yet! Since its inception in 2018, the Collie Art Prize has celebrated artistic excellence, creativity, andinnovation around a single theme – Identity. The

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Artists

Artists with Fargo ties featured in new issue of National Geographic – InForum

FARGO — Two artists with ties to Fargo and the Plains Art Museum are featured prominently in a new special issue National Geographic that looks at the future of Indigenous art and culture. The work of Cannupa Hanska Luger, who was born in Fort Yates, N.D., on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, is featured on

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Artists

YouTube Music rolling out artist page redesign on Android, iOS

After Mark as played for podcast episodes and Sound Search, YouTube Music is rolling out a redesign of artist pages on Android and iOS. This redesign starts with the artist name being left-aligned alongside subscriber count and a proper pill-shaped button for following. Across from it is the ability to start radio and shuffle, with

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Artists

young artists gamify Olympics in two-part Paris show

Of the many Olympics-themed exhibitions taking place in Paris this summer, Gold Rush, a two-part show at Lafayette Anticipations and the Ateliers Médicis, is certainly the most whimsical. Co-ordinated by ebb.global, a branch of the Franco-Algerian artist Neil Beloufa’s practice dedicated to tech-led cultural projects, the exhibition has been imagined and designed by 60 students

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Artists

For Appalachian Artists, the Landscape Is Much More Than the Sum of Its Natural Resources

In a 2018 photograph taken by the Philadelphia artist Andrea Walls, a ghost floats toward the viewer. Draped in a white shroud and framed by power lines and splintered tree branches, the faceless figure is following train tracks that fall off the edge of the page. Walls’ eerie portrait, called “Railroaded,” appears in the final

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Artists

Artists Who Refuse to Collaborate or License Their Work 

Yayoi Kusama’s abstract expressionism showcased in one of her creative installations. Be it prolific luxury collaborations with the likes of Yayoi Kusama and Louis Vuitton or Keith Haring and various high street stores that feature his art from Uniqlo to H&M, the commercialisation and licensing of art is seen as a strategic move to democratise

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European Art

UK’s Arts Spending Is Lower Than That of Most European Countries

According to a new report, the UK has some of the lowest levels of government spending on the arts in all of Europe. Titled The State of the Arts, the report by the University of Warwick and the Campaign for the Arts gathers data on funding, education and employment in the arts in the country.

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Art Investment

The long-term investment value of the Chinese art market

The Chinese art market has boomed in the 21st century and is now the second largest globally.  Continued collector and investor interest is expected as China’s economy grows. Chinese art seen as a long-term investment with inflation-hedging potential. In the Spring of this year, ink paintings have outperformed oil paintings and modern art has outperformed contemporary art.  The Chinese art

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Artists

The late Colombian artist Botero is celebrated with an open-air sculpture exhibition in Rome

A woman take a picture at Botero’s “Seated Woman” sculpture in Rome’s Piazza San Silvestro, Friday, July 19, 2024. Rome’s storied streets and piazzas have become a vibrant canvas for Fernando Botero’s exuberant sculptures, turning the city into an open-air museum of voluminous forms and daring artistry. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) ROME (AP) — The daughter

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