August 9, 2024
Artists

Summer internship at Butte’s historic Clark Chateau inspires young artists

BUTTE — School is out for the summer, but for a group of intrepid high school artists in Butte, it’s just the beginning of a nine-week lesson on creating different art forms as they embark on a journey of self-expression and personal identity in the Clark Chateau’s high school summer internship program. “Art can be

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Artists

Westbeth Artists Housing Debuts Art Take-Over

Westbeth Artists Housing announced today an inaugural Art Take-Over to reopen and transform three historic mixed-use spaces within the famed interior courtyard space. Four original spaces – including the Westbeth Gallery – are hosting innovative exhibitions to activate the spaces with publicly accessible art offerings for the neighborhood. The exhibitions are now open and run

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Tracy Lawrence Shares Wise Word of Advice To Up-And-Coming Artists

Tracy Lawrence shared a word of advice to aspiring artists and songwriters planning to pursue a career in Nashville, Tennessee. The legendary singer-songwriter and producer recently caught up with brothers and podcast hosts Dan and Reid Isbell on an episode of God’s Country. When asked about the advice he would give to up-and-coming performers and

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Crowds and artists praise the 2024 ERJ | Vincennes PBS

Crowds and artists praise the 2024 ERJ | Vincennes PBS | 1200 North Second Street, Vincennes, IN 47591 About two hundred people braved the heat this past weekend heat to attend the Electric River Jam. The 4th annual event at the French Commons was held on Saturday with several new bands

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Artists

Top July arts events in Sarasota-Manatee area

July is often a slow month in the Sarasota area arts scene, but it has turned out to be a busy one this year, with several new stage productions, two theaters giving a test drive to new works with staged readings, art exhibits and a lot of improv comedy with the return of the Sarasota

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Artists

At The Contemporary Dayton, revered local artists are in the spotlight

ExploreDayton digital media artist Tess Cortés uses technology to explore personal history Photographer Andy Snow is showing “Time Bends, Space Blends,” a fascinating look at the ways area cities and towns have changed in the years since the devastating 1913 flood. Artist Tess Cortés has created “Vanishing Point,” two videos that incorporate family movies, photos

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European Artists

8 Central and Eastern European LGBTQAI+ Artists sustaining the Queer Archive | Contemporary Lynx

In her illuminating book Archive of Feelings (2003), feminist and queer scholar Ann Cvetkovich observes how: “The act of archiving personal and collective memories can serve as a form of activism, a way to resist erasure and claim visibility for marginalized experiences.” 20 years on from the publication of this seminal work in the field

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Artists

CPS funding cuts threaten my innovative arts high school

The Chicago High School for the Arts, or ChiArts, thrives in the Humboldt Park neighborhood. ChiArts’ Class of 2024 graduates face bright futures. They will study engineering, sculpture, sociology, jazz, premed, poetry and more. This range of opportunity exists only because the students who attend ChiArts have access to a robust academic and arts education.   

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Visual artists

Steve McQueen Is an Art Doer

The artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen sat down in the lobby of a hotel in Chelsea one recent Saturday evening. He was wearing a double-­breasted cotton jacket, indigo jeans, and unscuffed leather shoes. As usual, he was in heavy-rimmed spectacles with rounded edges, like Yves Saint Laurent’s. It was McQueen’s last evening in New York,

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Artists

American multidisciplinary artist Doug Aitken to debut in Istanbul

Doug Aitken, the acclaimed American multidisciplinary artist at the forefront of contemporary art, is set to debut his first exhibition in Türkiye at Borusan Contemporary this September. Known for his boundary-pushing exploration of all forms of artistic expression since the 1990s, Aitken has garnered prestigious accolades such as the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale

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