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
A new campaign has been launched by Music Venue Trust (MVT) calling on artists to support grassroots music when they reach arena-selling level. Announced yesterday (May 21), ‘The Artist Pledge’ asks artists to commit to helping grassroots venues, artists, and promoters by pledging to a ticket levy on arena-sized gigs. The levy would then pay
What do you consider to be ‘high value’? Tickets to Taylor’s Eras tour? A luxury honeymoon in the Maldives? Jewellery? A car… your dream home? Commodities, items… things. Well, if you take a scroll down TikTok’s FYP, you’ll likely see countless ‘content creators’ using the term to describe people, specifically those they consider date-worthy. Take
Artists from various corners of Kitsap County were given a simple prompt in a Port Orchard contest last October: depict on a concrete barrier block the wonders of the Pacific Northwest. The artists did not disappoint, and after long backups from the Bethel-Bay roundabout intersection returned briefly this spring, the painted blocks lining the walkway