Danish startup Artelize has raised €1m of funding to launch two new services for artists and arts organisations. The company describes itself as ‘a platform for the performing arts’, showcasing events, artists and creators, arts organisations and creative works. The pre-seed funding round will be used for expansion in the UK and Europe, as well as to

As an artist working across media, I’ve used everything from thread to my voice to poetically translate and express information. Recently, I’ve been working with another medium – geologic datasets. While scientists use data visualization to show the results of a dataset in interesting and informative ways, my goal as an artist is a little

Silent Servant, techno artist and Sandwell District member, dies · News ⟋ RA Mendez’s management confirmed the news earlier today. Los Angeles-based DJ and producer John Juan Mendez, AKA Silent Servant, has died. Mendez’s management, Triangle Agency, confirmed the news in an email sent to Resident Advisor earlier today, January 19th. The cause of death

Lorraine O’Grady was an intelligence analyst for the US State Department at the height of the Cold War, a professional translator, a rock critic at the Village Voice, a professor of art and literature at New York’s School of Visual Arts, and finally, in her 40s, a groundbreaking artist. That last one stuck, late as

Josinah Makotoko and Ricardo Rodriguez are the new BIPOC artists-in-residence at ArtCite. (Amy Dodge/CBC – image credit) For artists Josinah Makotoko and Ricardo Rodriguez, art and skateboarding go hand in hand. Makotoko and Rodriguez are the newest participants in the BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and people of colour) artists-in-residence program at Artcite. They will be in residence until March

A judge Thursday placed a stay on a hip hop artist’s lawsuit against A$AP Rocky pending the outcome of the rapper’s criminal case, in which he is charged with pulling a gun on a hip hop artist during a 2021 altercation in Hollywood and then firing at him soon afterward. The 35-year-old entertainer — whose

A press Thursday release from Finlandia Foundation National, announced that National Sauna Week, Feb. 18-24, celebrates its third year with a new look: the winning entry in the inaugural poster art competition. Debbie Paver of Calumet, Michigan, submitted the winning poster entry and says, “I am incredibly excited to be a

The year 1956 is widely considered the moment when container shipping was born. On April 26 that year, American trucking entrepreneur Malcom McLean put 58 trailer vans aboard a refitted tanker ship, the SS Ideal X, and sailed them from Newark, New Jersey to Houston, Texas.  The same year has a few similarities with today’s

Harlem Stage has teamed up with Sugar Hill Salon and Concert Artists Guild to present a special installment of its beloved series Uptown Nights that will showcase chamber music written by living composers of color. The Friday, February 23 concert marks the first collaboration between the organizations, and the first time artists from Sugar Hill

EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) – Nearly 400 visual art students from different school districts including El Paso, Socorro and Ysleta, along with the El Paso Community College (EPCC), had the opportunity to meet and present their art portfolios to 19 colleges and universities from across the nation on Sun City Art Portfolio Day held Thursday,