Blame it all on his roots. Loren Chantland has an eye for the kinds of idyllic rural Midwestern landscapes that make for great paintings, and the artist — who grew up outside of Marshalltown, moved away for many years and then returned two years ago — will have a chance to show off
Photos by Stephen Ironside Joaquin Gavilano, left, and Julia Paginelli-Marin. Mid-America Arts Alliance has announced the recipients of the 2023 Artists 360 Awards. One current M.F.A. student in the the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing and Translation in the Department of English has been awarded a Student Artist grant, and one alumna has been awarded a Community Activator grant. Their proposed
The UK’s largest international contemporary art prize launched its biennial exhibition in Wales last month. For its 10th anniversary, Artes Mundi is venturing beyond its usual locale of Cardiff, presenting the work of seven artists in five venues across Wales, including the capital. It is also partnering with London’s Bagri Foundation for the first time.
Three of the four Voice Coaches have made their picks for the Live Shows, setting up nine of the Top 12 spots as we head toward the Season 24 finale. On Tuesday night, it was finally time for Team Legend to take the stage and complete the Top 12, and that meant some tough choices for Coach
Over the years, the Grammy Awards have become infamous for snubbing some of the music industry’s best artists, including the likes of Katy Perry and Nicki Minaj. Although many people don’t consider awards a true measure of talent in the industry, it is still shocking when great artists are not gifted with the deserved recognition.
VANESSA LAURIE/Stuff Four new artists and the line-up for World of Words and OMV Steam Lab have been announced for Womad 2024. A bevvy of international musical acts and renowned speakers are the latest addition to Womad’s 2024 line-up. French house act Braxe + Falcon, Irish folk sensations Lisa O’Neill & Cormac Begley, Estonian folk
Marc Thorpe, the visual effects artist who created the hit television series “Robot Wars” in which customized radio-controlled robots fight in metal arenas, has died. Thorpe was 77. Thorpe died on Friday at a hospice facility in Alamo, California, according to his daughter Megan Feffer. Thorpe’s death resulted from complications of Parkinson’s disease. Doctors first
Marc Thorpe Courtesy of Megan Feffer Marc Thorpe, who created special effects for Star Wars and Indiana Jones films before launching Robot Wars, which feature radio-controlled gladiators in events he called “festivals of destruction and survival,” has died. He was 77. Thorpe died Friday of complications related to Parkinson’s disease at a hospice facility in
Mark Renders/Getty Images A coalition of artist and label groups is calling on legislators to urgently address a 2020 court ruling that risks seeing European musicians lose out on millions of euros in royalties each year to U.S. acts. For decades, American musicians have been denied royalties for the use of their music on broadcast
Explore When Marion Gaemers and Lynnette Griffiths turned on the black lights in their studio not long ago, they were pleased. The discarded fishing gear they were using to create their latest work of art luminesced, giving it a ghostly oceanic glow. The wearable sculpture, which has 500 silvery sardines worked into its skirt, is