March 9, 2025

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Parallax Art Center to Close June 30

Pearl district gallery Parallax Art Center will be closing June 30, announced executive director Chandra Glaeseman late last week “with great sadness.” “Despite our best efforts, we have been unable to secure the necessary funding to sustain our operations,” Glaeseman wrote. “As I am writing this, I’ve had to navigate the ever-present piles of human

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Drake, J. Cole concert could spark A-list artists to come to OKC

UP AT EIGHT THIS MORNING FOR THAT CONCERT. YEAH, EVAN. AND THEY’RE STILL LINING UP NOW FOR DRAKE AND JAY COLE THAT ARE GOING TO BE HERE IN OKLAHOMA CITY FOR A TWO NIGHT TOUR. WE’RE GOING TO SHOW YOU THE LINE. THIS IS JUST ONE OF THE LINES. IT LITERALLY IS HALFWAY BACK ON

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Why Are African Artists Distancing Themselves from Afrobeats?

Afrobeats has been undergoing a reckoning, especially as the nominal term used to represent the wide range of popular music from West African (and generally African) artists. This is hugely significant for the sake of cultural nuance because of how much weight is attached to names culturally and spiritually in most, if not all, African

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Glenview artist opens abstract art exhibit at Glenview Library

Glenview abstract artist Emmett Kyoshi Wilson is opening his sixth solo exhibition, “VisAbility Exhibition,” at the Glenview Public Library, on a very significant day — March 21. That happens to be World Down Syndrome Day. The artist has Down Syndrome. The exhibit will run through May 15 and include a May 9 celebration of Emmett’s

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WKRG names Paris native as ‘Favorite Artist’ at Fairhope Arts & Crafts Festival

FAIRHOPE, Ala. (WKRG) — The Fairhope Arts & Crafts Festival has come to an end and WKRG has named our favorite artist for 2024. Elberta veteran gets a new home thanks to Homes For Our Troops Over 200 artists from 34 states and Canada came to Fairhope to show off their work at the 72nd

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NKollectiv embraces spring with group exhibition, new member artist

NKollectiv at 960 Santa Fe Drive presents “ReAwakening,” a group exhibition to mark the start of spring. The show features the gallery’s current mix of local artists and will be introducing a new member to the group, painter Elissa Quist. Guest printmakers Zelga Miller and Timothea Biermann are participating in conjunction with the larger Month of

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Toshiko Takaezu’s Posthumous Appeal – The New York Times

There was no excuse that Toshiko Takaezu, a formidable ceramist, deemed acceptable when students missed her class at Princeton University’s Program in Visual Arts. Not even if a student was training for a place on the United States women’s field hockey team for the Olympic Games. Martha Russo was a sophomore in 1982 who was

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Banksy: Artist confirms new London tree mural is his own work

18 March 2024, 11:36 GMT Updated 1 hour ago Image caption, Streams of people have been coming to see the artwork since it first appeared Banksy has confirmed that he is behind a new artwork that appeared in north London on Sunday. It shows green paint sprayed on a wall behind a cut-back tree to

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Gospel artists headed to Adderley Amphitheater

Tallahassee has proven that Mother Nature can’t match the force of gospel music. Three years ago, national gospel star Todd Dulaney was set to perform at the Cascades Park with the praise team from Tallahassee’s Family Worship and Praise Center. But then inclement weather forced a relocation to The Moon. Despite the location change, fans

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NFT artist’s meme coin on Solana nets $10m in one-day presale

A non-fungible token (NFT) artist going by the pseudonym Kero broke the crypto internet after he raised more than $10 million in Solana (SOL) in less than a day during the presale of a meme coin, which apparently started for a laugh.  Kero launched the presale after conducting a poll on X on whether they

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