August 5, 2024
Artists

Hong Kong artists’ Shenzhen exhibitions look at cities’ shared anxieties to show how art connects people regardless of geographical boundaries

The code Law uses in the piece’s title refers to catalogue numbers of a captivating collection of photographs housed at the National Archives in the UK that document the British exploration of their newly acquired territory. The entrance to “Blue Throat: Acclimated Difference (Part 2)” at Shenzhen’s Hexagon Gallery. Photo: Hexagon Gallery The artist, who

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The Tommy Garrett House for homeless artists opens in Detroit

Tommy Garrett has had a trailblazing career. He was among the first Black male models to be featured in top fashion magazines. He’s been a successful jazz musician and starred in a Broadway musical. And years ago, due to an illness and a mugging, Garrett at one point was homeless in Detroit. After the mugging

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Fort Wayne Public Art Commission seeks practicing artist for open seat | Local Arts

Local artists have an opportunity to join the city’s Public Art Commission as the body looks to fill a seat vacated this fall. To qualify, an individual must be a practicing artist or design professional and a city resident. Artists interested in the volunteer position can complete a Statement of Interest Form at FortWaynePublicArt.com. The

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Christine Kuan, President of the Non-Profit Creative Capital, on the Vital Role of Art Funding

Christine Kuan In early 2001, Christine Kuan took the helm of Creative Capital, the prestigious art fund that has awarded millions of dollars in direct grants to groundbreaking artists like Jeffrey Gibson, Simone Leigh, Theaster Gates, Laura Poitras, and many others since its founding in 1999—in total, $55 million to nearly 1,000 artists. The New

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Sip and Paint at Fenimore ‘a great success’ – Caribbean Life

Search our comprehensive guide to caribbean events in NYC for more local events — or submit your own! Brooklyn artist and entrepreneur Lett Luckain has described as “a great success” a “Sip and Paint” event she conducted last Saturday in the Fellowship Hall at Fenimore Street United Methodist Church in Brooklyn. “I am grateful for

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Louisville artist’s iconic streetscapes launch ‘Outsider’ Gallery

Mark Anthony Mulligan’s drawings are a kaleidoscopic trip through the streets of Louisville, merging the real and the surreal, providing a look into the mind of a true original artist. Mulligan, who died at the age of 59 last November, is currently being celebrated with a retrospective exhibition titled “Share a Little of Things of

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Beatport’s Top-Selling Tracks, Artists, and Labels of 2023

With Beatport Insider, we look at key stats from the Beatport store each month. With 2023 coming to a close, we look at the artists, tracks, and labels across all genres that took the top spots in Beatport’s sales and streaming charts over the past 12 months. With its slick guitar line and ’90s rave-inspired

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Artist Frida Wannerberger Believes: “The Most Feminist Act I Could Do…Is to Wear All the Dresses I Want”

Frida Wannerberger is a feminist and fashion-friendly Swedish artist based in London whose bitter and sweet work speaks to the current zeitgeist in a nuanced way. She paints life-size paper-doll-like women, who are uniform-dressers, at least in terms of silhouette. First impressions are likely not to stick: Their imposing scale, the patterning of their frocks,

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Exploring Love and Life on Wheels: Comic Artist Kristin Beale’s Creative Path

Local author and comic artist, Kristin Beale has a pretty good sense of humor. While most of us would chalk up a bad or weird date to a night and an overpriced cocktail wasted, and roll our eyes over it with close friends the next morning before it fades into our personal history books of

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Porsche Italia electrified us with five artists

The photographer Ramak Fazel (1965), born in Iran and raised in the United States, arrived in Milan in 1994. Attracted by stories that labeled it as “a challenging city to live in,” he chose the Lombard capital as his new home. He arrived at the Central Station with just one bag and immediately started working

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