Ashok Kumar/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management Electronic realm favorite Blond:ish got a major global profile boost yesterday (May 21) with the release of her official edit of Taylor Swift’s “Fortnight.” Her driving house take turns the BPM up significantly on the The Tortured Poets Department opener, turning the solemn Post Malone duet (which debuted
Visionary local artist, sculptor, architect, designer and naturalist James Hubbell passed away on Friday, May 17. He was 92. Hubbell’s artistic touch is all over San Diego and beyond, with countless stained glass, mosaics, sculptures, gates and more peppering local libraries, churches, nature preserves, schools and other public spaces. Courtesy of Ilan-Lael Foundation A young
During a segment of the indie documentary film “Make Me Famous,” consecutive interview subjects question the need for a movie about 1980s East Village artist Edward Brezinski, who was well-known inside the New York City art scene but not outside it. New York-based husband-and-wife filmmakers Brian Vincent (director) and Heather Spore (producer), whose documentary was
BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — A new study finds Louisiana’s favorite male artist is country singer Morgan Wallen. The study by Indivisible Game analyzed Google search results over a year for major male artists with U.S. tour dates announced for 2024. Wallen’s concerts were searched by people in Louisiana an average of 2,607 times per
More than 500 artists and cultural workers gathered in the center of Montreal last Thursday, May 16, to push for increased government funding for arts and culture. Led by arts advocacy group Grande Mobilisation des Artistes du Québec (GMAQ), the demonstration took place over three hours, beginning and ending in front of the office of
Scarlett Johansson called out OpenAI this week for mimicking her voice for a new chatbot, underscoring the urgency that many artists feel about regulating artificial intelligence. But in Congress, taking on AI is starting to resemble wrestling an octopus. It’s so sprawling, it’s hard to know how to begin. The Senate AI Working Group issued
Vinings resident Nellie Mae Rowe, who worked as a domestic most of her adulthood, turned to painting and sculpture full-time in her 60s and enjoyed a remarkable late-in-life career. Her work was collected by the High Museum of Art, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco, the Smithsonian National Museum
Chanel and the Tribeca Festival are once again sweetening the pot for winning filmmakers with the 2024 Artist Awards program. Now in its 19th year, the program celebrates the link between visual art forms through the act of gifting. Participants in the Artist Awards program, selected by curator Racquel Chevremont, have each gifted an artwork
Jenny Holzer Tribeca Festival and Chanel have announced the artists selected for this year’s Artist Awards Program. This year’s participants, who gift an original work to be given to the festival’s winning filmmakers, include Deborah Kass, Erick & Elliot Jiménez, Glenn Ligon, Jenny Holzer, Joiri Minaya, José Parlá, Juliana Huxtable, Maia Cruz Palileo, Paul Anthony
Tom of Finland, the Finnish artist famous for his homoerotic illustrations of hypermasculine men, died in 1991. But his legacy lives on — through his art, which adorns queer establishments around the world, as well as through the Tom of Finland Foundation. In addition to preserving Tom’s oeuvre, ToFF works to carry on Tom’s spirit