March 10, 2025

Artists

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How the Oak Cliff Assembly created an inclusive space for local artists

Photo courtesy Oak Cliff Assembly/Lexreno Photos The Oak Cliff Assembly will host its fourth annual Art Walk on July 6th from 2-8 p.m., providing a platform for local artists to showcase their work in a non-traditional setting and without the weight of gallery costs and fees. The Oak Cliff Assembly is a 17,000-square-foot Dallas Historical

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6 rising artists to know in June 2024

Welcome to AP&R, where we highlight rising artists who are on their way to becoming your new favorite. Below, we’ve rounded up a handful of names from around the world who either just dropped music or have new music on the way very soon. These are the June up-and-comers, artists picked for their standout sound,

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Returning to his roots: Artist’s attention turns from Big Apple experience to environment

PALMER TWP., Pa. — Inside his makeshift basement studio, artist James Bartolacci stands next to his adorable chihuahua-mix, Baby, and points to a palette of bright reds, oranges, yellows and blues. Later on, he’ll mix the hues to find the perfect fluorescent to fill the canvas for a series of works that memorialize New York City’s

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Young and old African artists celebrated at October Gallery shows

Stepping inside the main hall of London’s October Gallery in May and June, visitors were met with a riot of colour. The exhibition Emergent Energies, running until 29 June, presents an innovative and unique selection of works by young artists from across the African continent and within the African diaspora. Each exhibit, eye-catching and utterly

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What’s The Future For Black Artists In Country Music? Breland, Reyna Roberts & More Sound Off

Shaboozey‘s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” is flipping country music on its head. His genre-bending hit, which interpolates J-Kwon’s 2004 hip-hop smash “Tipsy,” replaced Beyoncé‘s “TEXAS HOLD ‘EM” atop Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart in April — marking the first time that two Black artists held the No. 1 spot back-to-back on the chart. The history-making

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AI will never replace artists

AI (Artificial Intelligence) will never replace artists because art isn’t valued purely on aesthetics and innovation but rather its human qualities. Despite artists’ anxieties, Artificial Intelligence can never replace them. Unlike AI artwork—which is valued for the way it appears—traditional pieces are valued by virtue of their human creation. AI art programs are generative algorithms

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Avivo empowering artists with mental illness share their skills

For several years, staff at Avivo ArtWorks, an art-focused community support program for people with severe and persistent mental illness (SPMI), hired teaching artists to run workshops where program participants, also known as members, could learn new artistic techniques. The approach was popular. But last year, Tovah Rudawski, Avivo ArtWorks program manager, noticed that program

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Mom artists celebrated at new free gallery show in historic Kress Building

YBOR CITY, Fla. — Odeta Xheka is a mom, an artist, and a visionary. So when a space opened up in Ybor City’s historic Kress Building on 7th Avenue, the Albanian-born local creative knew exactly what she wanted to do. “To make a point of having women at the helm of their enterprises,” she said.

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Turkish, Chinese artists meet in Beijing with ‘Ink and Color Fusion’

In a celebration of artistic exchange, Beijing recently played host to the “Ink and Color Fusion” exhibition. This showcase, organized by the Yunus Emre Institute in Beijing and the Turkish Embassy, featured works by both Turkish and Chinese artists, offering a platform for cultural dialogue through the mediums of ink and color. It showcased the

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Choi Goen wins Frieze Seoul’s 2024 Artist Award

Installation view of Choi Goen’s “Sunbake” (2023) at Art Sonje Center in central Seoul / Courtesy of Art Sonje Center By Park Han-sol Korean artist Choi Goen / Courtesy of Frieze Seoul Korean artist Choi Goen has been named the winner of the second annual Artist Award at Frieze Seoul, Monday. The prize, sponsored by

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