The women of the Bloomsbury group found solace and creative inspiration in their green spaces, from the Italian gardens of Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West’s color-themed castle grounds. Each had an experimental and highly creative approach to gardening, whether evoking the design of classical English cottages, the idyllic planting of Mediterranean villas, or Persia’s vibrant
MARBLEHEAD — Hundreds of artistic pieces lined the auditorium on the second floor of Abbot Hall on Tuesday evening as the next generation of artists showed off their work as part of the opening reception of the Marblehead High School Annual Spring Art Exhibition. From woodworks and oil paintings to graphic design and photographs, students
Paintings, prints and drawings entered in the 2023 show. (Photo courtesy City of Mountlake Terrace) The Arts of the Terrace Juried Art Show returns this fall, and it’s time for artists to apply. This is the 44th year for the Mountlake Terrace tradition, which is sponsored by the city’s Arts Advisory Commission and Mountlake Terrace
Persevering past the daunting expanse of nine long years between their debut and eventual disintegration, Houston in the Blind is rallying toward a sophomore renewal on their forthcoming new album Hide The Glow. Arriving this summer, the three incandescent singles shared by the band’s singer/songwriter Charlie Garrett delve into his attempts to navigate the crumbling
The title of this show of British women artists from 1520-1920 at Tate Britain is highly apt. ‘Now You See Us’ contains just the right amount of ironic sang-froid that has taken the best part of half a millennium for women to become visible as professional artists, having been sidelined or judged inferior for most of that
“Nordic Utopia?” installation view at National Nordic Museum in Seattle. Jim Bennett/Photo Bakery for National Nordic Museum Of course they went in part to escape the horrific racial violence and pervasive inequality in America, the Black artists who looked to the Nordic countries as a creative safe haven in the 20th century, but there was
The city of Pueblo is one step closer in its pursuit to revitalize and preserve the legacy of the “Slab” — a collection of basketball courts along Elizabeth Street Parkway — with murals and other timely upgrades. The city selected four submissions from artists to design and create murals on the surfaces of those courts.
The category for Entertainer of the Year at the 2024 ACM Awards is stacked! With seven nominations, it’s clear that even the Academy of Country Music had a hard time narrowing down the competition. The 2024 ACM Awards Entertainer of the Year Nominations Every name in this year’s list of nominations is a titan of
Over 120 artists have pulled out of The Great Escape due to the festival’s sponsorship by Barclays. The Brighton-based conference and festival kicked off yesterday (May 15) and will run until Sunday (May 19), with TGE typically hosting a line-up of emerging musical talent, previously helping launch the likes of Stormzy and Kae Tempest. The
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex, File) NEW YORK — Gov. Kathy Hochul recently announced that the opportunity guidelines for art grants for Fiscal Year 2025 are now available. According to a news release from the governor’s office, $82 million in New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) grants are now available