August 5, 2024
Artists

Apple might soon pay artists more for offering their music in Atmos

Most of today’s biggest music releases already come with a Dolby Atmos mix alongside the traditional stereo version, but Apple is apparently determined to increase the format’s adoption even further. Bloomberg is today reporting that the company is planning to give “added weighting” to songs that offer an Atmos mix; this could potentially increase the

Read More
Artists

Burlington County Celebrates Longtime Mount Laurel Artist Virginia Marchiondo

Mount Laurel artist Virginia Marchiondo displays her painting that recreates the iconic 9/11 image of first responders raising a flag at Ground Zero in Manhattan, New York. (Courtesy of Burlington County) Virginia Marchiondo started drawing when she was 15 years old during her classes in school. “I was supposed to be paying attention, but I

Read More
Artists

Recent exhibit shines spotlight on Samohi artists

With so many extracurricular choices at Santa Monica High School, the campus’ robust visual arts department can sometimes stay under the radar as students hone a variety of craft skills. Going into the winter season, the department is undetected no longer, as locals flocked to the Samohi Roberts Art Gallery on Dec. 7 for the

Read More
Artists

The Arizona Daily Star collaborates with local artists to turn newspaper into wrapping paper

How cool is this? The Arizona Daily Star collaborated with local Tucson artists to create holiday wrapping paper. Each day between December 3 and December 14, a full page of wrapping paper is included in the print newspaper. You can also visit the website to download each day’s featured art-as-wrapping-paper. The Arizona Daily Star provides more details:

Read More
Artists

Government Notes: Cedar Rapids seeks artists for Delaney Park basketball court mural

Monica Vallejo dances with Steve Lagunas during a Sept. 15, 2022, rehearsal of the Ballet Folklórico troupe Fuerzas Culturales at Delaney Memorial Park in southwest Cedar Rapids. The city is seeking an artist or art team to create a full-court mural on the park’s basketball court. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette) The city of Cedar Rapids is

Read More
Artists

Soviet-Era Art Luminary Karlo Kacharava Is Finally Emerging From Obscurity

Karlo Kacharava. photo by Guram Tsibakhashvili photos, 1989. When I first visited Tbilisi, Georgia, in winter 2018, I was taken to meet Lika Kacharava, and in her small apartment we drank local natural wine, ate homemade fare, and viewed many paintings, drawings, and notebooks by her late brother Karlo Kacharava. His art—renderings of brooding people

Read More
Artists

‘Beauty must suffer’: the artist lifting the barre on ballet | Art

It begins with barre. The young girl’s left hand grips the bar, her right hand in first position, her tutu adorably upright, while she inquisitively, and somewhat nervously, looks at her reflection in the mirror. It’s a process every dancer starts with, and it’s this image that visitors see first at Beauty Must Suffer, an

Read More
Artists

10 Solo Gallery Exhibitions to See In New York Before the End of the Year

Sagarika Sundaram. Photo: Anita Source. Courtesy of the artist and Palo Gallery. Whether you are just returning to the city from Miami or simply wanting to see what’s on in the city before the holidays, we’ve rounded up 10 solo exhibitions that are not to be missed before the end of the year. And though

Read More
Artists

Artists for Luxembourg Song Contest 2024 announced

Auditions have been held where more than 100 artists have sung in front of a panel of national and international experts. Eight artists have thereby been selected to compete at Luxembourg Song Contest 2024. Today, the artists for Luxembourg Song Contest 2024 will be revealed. The announcements will take place throughout the day on Today

Read More
Artists

Artist in residence helps students find creative voice | News, Sports, Jobs

Laurie Cave, resident artist at St. Matthew School in Tyrone assists a student with a project. Courtesy photo Imagination is the basis for everything, according to Laurie Cave, resident artist at St. Matthew School in Tyrone. Cave is aiming to teach students in preschool through fifth grade just that. Cave was born in Tyrone, but

Read More