August 31, 2024
European Art

Colorado Arts Spotlight: Things to do around the state Nov. 17-19

This week’s Colorado Arts Spotlight includes film, plenty of music, and even a bit of science. It is that final deep breath before the holiday season, and some events are already beginning. Friday, Nov. 17 The JCC Mizel Arts and Culture Center in Denver hosts the third annual ReelAbilities Film Festival Denver, running through Sunday.

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Visual artists

Artist Sydney G. James on Detroit’s mural scene, advocating for opportunities in the arts 

Detroit artist Sydney G. James says she’s been an artist her whole life.  A self-described “Girl Raised in Detroit,” James earned her bachelor’s degree in fine arts at the College for Creative Studies in 2001 before moving to Los Angeles in 2004 to work as a visual artist in TV and filmmaking.  James moved back

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European Art

Ai Weiwei London exhibition ‘effectively cancelled’ over Israel social media post

Chinese dissident and artist Ai Weiwei has said his new exhibition at the Lisson Gallery in London has been cancelled after he posted comments on social media referencing the Israel Hamas war. ADVERTISEMENT The Lisson Gallery in London has cancelled their plans to mount an Ai Weiwei show after a social media post by the

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Art Investment

Space Coast Office of Tourism names Bebee as marketing director

Compiled by Wayne T. Price Beebe named marketing director at Space Coast Office of Tourism The Space Coast Office of Tourism recently announced the hiring of Laura Beebe as its marketing director. Beebe comes to the Space Coast from the Alabama Gulf Coast Convention and Visitors Bureau, where she has worked for 10 years as

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European Artists

Analysis: The art of staying anonymous — a game-changing decision for data anonymisation

Leo Moore and Rachel Hayes William Fry partner Leo Moore and senior associate Rachel Hayes consider a recent European judgment with significance for data anonymisation. A recent decision of the European General Court has shifted the goalposts for data anonymisation. In Single Resolution Board (SRB) v European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) (Case T-557/20), the General

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European Artists

Cartoons that kill: The art and imagery of genocide | Opinions

Genocide is not an event; you don’t simply wake up one morning and begin exterminating an entire people out of the blue. Genocide is a process; you have to work your way up to it. And like all processes, genocide has its stages – 10 stages in all if we are to refer to the

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Visual artists

12 African Artists Leading a Culture Renaissance Around the World

In one of his famed self-portraits, Omar Victor Diop, a Senegalese photographer and artist, wears a three-piece suit and an extravagant paisley bow tie, preparing to blow a yellow, plastic whistle. The elaborately staged photograph evokes the memory of Frederick Douglass, the one-time fugitive slave who in the 19th century rose to become a leading

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European Art

The Met Gives Its European Galleries a Fresh Look

Good morning. It’s Thursday. We’ll get a look at some of the most popular galleries in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which are about to reopen after a five-year renovation project. We’ll also find out what the chairman of the House Ethics Committee said about its investigation of Representative George Santos. To renovate the galleries

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Artists

World is ‘blindly failing’ persecuted Afghan artists, human rights organisation says

A new report published by the New York-based human rights organisation Artistic Freedom Initiative (AFI) in partnership with the University of California, Berkley is calling on international governments to give Afghan artists and cultural workers refugee status because they are being “overtly targeted” by the Taliban. AFI says the hardline militant group has criminalised artistic

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Art Investment

 Afreximbank launches African gastronomy and culinary arts programme

Prof. Benedict Oramah, President & Chairman of Afreximbank (in apron), Mrs. Kanayo Awani, Exec. VP IATB, Afreximbank, Boris Kodjoe, Actor, Producer, Investor & Philanthropist (Ghana/USA) and other dignitaries at the launch Cairo, 16 November 2023: The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) today in Cairo launched an African Gastronomy and Culinary Arts Programme under its Creative

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