August 5, 2024
European Artists

Latin America is calling for Live Nation and European artists alike

Much has been written about Latin America’s current clout when it comes to exporting artists, thanks to the global success enjoyed by the likes of Bad Bunny, Anitta, J Balvin, Shakira, and most recently Peso Pluma. However, there’s just as much interest in international companies and artists going the other way and reaching audiences within Latin

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Industry bodies sign up to AI-based initiative to help European artists break into LATAM markets | Digital

Digital music marketing agency Melboss has announced a partnership with AIM Ireland, the European Music Managers Alliance (EMMA) and WHY Portugal on a project to help European artists to break into the LATAM region. Algo-Rhythms aims to harness the power of AI and smart data to enable European artists to successfully navigate the booming Latin

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Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Life and Times Examined in Two European Shows

Meanwhile, in Basel, Switzerland, the solo show “Basquiat. The Modena Paintings” at the Fondation Beyeler (June 11 – August 27, 2023) offers a suite of eight large-scale paintings that the artist made in the Italian city of Modena over a two-week period for a 1982 exhibition that never took place—until now, more than 40 years

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An EU framework for artists’ working conditions, finally?

A framework for conditions in the cultural sector is back on the agenda. This time it must stay there. Life may not be quite as chaotic for EU cultural workers today as for the Travelling Players amid the vicissitudes of wartime and postwar Greece in Angelopoulos’ classic film—but they do need secure working conditions The

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What is Romanticism? Exploring the 19th-Century Movement

Caspar David Friedrich, ‘Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog,’ ca. 1818 (Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain) Throughout art history, many major art movements emerged in response to existing artistic approaches. Pre-Raphaelite painting, for example, was born out of a dislike of the Renaissance, while Rococo artists built upon the opulence of Baroque art. Though this phenomenon

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MEPs call for revamp of artists’ rights across EU and debate on AI-generated content

The European Union should do more to mitigate the “very irregular” employment situation” and the challenges posed by AI and digitalisation that artists and other professionals in the creative sector face, lawmakers have demanded. ADVERTISEMENT The European Parliament’s culture (CULT) and employment (EMPL) committees this week presented a joint report that called for a new

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Klimt’s final portrait sells for record £85.3m

By Jasmine Andersson BBC News 27 June 2023 Image caption, Lady with a Fan is the last portrait Austrian artist Gustav Klimt painted before he died Gustav Klimt’s final painting has sold for £85.3m ($108.4m), making it the most valuable work of art ever sold at auction in Europe. Lady with a Fan (Dame mit

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Ranked and Rated! The best European albums of the 21st century

We can sense the nods of agreement and hear the rumbling of discontent, but Euronews Culture stands by its much fought over selection. How many have you listened to? Do let us know your choices @euronewsculture #euronewsculture ADVERTISEMENT Last month, we gave you our ranking of the Top 30 European Films of the 21st Century. 

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Vatican, Pope Francis welcome avant-garde artists

United States’ artist Andres Serrano arrives to meet reporters after being received by Pope Francis on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Contemporary Art section of the Vatican Museum, at the Vatican, Friday, June 23, 2023. AP Photo/Andrew Medichini Pope Francis praised artists on Friday as true visionaries who can see,

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The exhibition re-framing Van Gogh’s last days

Appointed after Vincent Van Gogh’s discharge from the Saint-Paul Asylum in Saint-Rémy, Dr Paul Gachet was always more than a medic. Gachet and Van Gogh shared a close affinity; both were artists and prone to mental health problems, and when Van Gogh painted his doctor, he did so in the pose of “melancholia”, sighing over

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