March 10, 2025

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Eight Black queer visual artists changing the way we see ourselves & others

Public Gallery at the 2023 Armory Show VIP Preview at Javits Center on September 07, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Sean Zanni/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images) With summer drawing to a close, the art world is looking ahead to The Armory Show, an art fair that brings leading international contemporary and modern art

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BUTTER returns on Thursday! Co-founder shares what you can expect

INDIANAPOLIS — A growing art fair returns to Indianapolis this week — It’s called BUTTER and it’s known as America’s equitable fine art fair. “That centers the care and the economic viability of black visual artists,” said GANGGANG Co-founder and Creative Director, Mali Bacon. Each year the BUTTER Fine Art Fair gets bigger and bigger.

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Art and Wine: A creative escape

Enanka Art Gallery is more than just a space; it is a weekend haven where people escape to nurture their artistic talents and reconnect with their creative sides. The gallery is alive with activity. Each corner buzzing with the hum of creation. Painters are gathered on one side, their canvases slowly coming to life with

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Be My AI Is Revolutionizing How We Interact with Visual Culture

I first encountered Be My AI last fall, when the app was in beta. Developed by Danish mobile app Be My Eyes and OpenAI, it uses ChatGPT-4’s vision model to provide robust, nearly instantaneous descriptions of any image and facilitate conversations about those images. As a blind artist, I collect image descriptions like others collect

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Tatachilla joins Australia’s largest visual arts festival

Entitled Echoes of Tarnanthi, the exhibition will feature artworks by 160 students who have taken their inspiration from Adelaide’s most recent Tarnanthi Festival and who have explored ways in which symbolism is used in art to convey important messages about life, culture and meaning.  The students, currently enrolled in Years 7-11, have spent an entire

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Monash University Visual Residency Prato Opportunities – ArtsHub Australia

We’re pleased to offer a wonderful opportunity for a visual residency in Prato, Italy – a collaboration between Monash Art, Design & Architecture and the Monash University Prato Centre (MUPC). Italy is renowned for the richness of its art, design and architecture. Our visual residency program gives Australian creative practitioners the chance to engage with

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Japanese Visual Artist and Animator Keiichi Tanaami Passes at 88

AWN recently received the sad news of the death of Japanese visual artist and animator Keiichi Tanaami (1936-2024). Besides graphic designer and visual artist, Tanaami was an important independent filmmaker and played a significant role in the development of autonomous and experimental animation film in Japan. NANZUKA gallery, which displayed art by Keiichi Tanaami, published

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Art As Activism: Three Visionaries Preserving Legacy Through Storytelling, Movement, And Visual Art – Essence

Shot of a young male artist working in his studio Art, by its very nature, is reciprocal. It’s an energetic conversation between the artist, the viewer, and the presenter—each contributing to its impact.  Art is universal. And, in many respects, multilingual—a higher form of communication that cuts directly to the soul. It’s why you can

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Open call seeks state poet laureate, musicians and visual artists

On behalf of the Texas Legislature, the Texas Commission on the Arts (TCA) is seeking nominations for the positions of 2025 and 2026 State Poet Laureate, State Musician classical genre, State Musician nonclassical genre, State Artist two-dimensional media (i.e., painting, photography), and State Artist three-dimensional media (i.e., sculpture).  All Texas citizens are encouraged to make

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Lesley Dumbrell: Thrum at the Art Gallery of NSW

The painting creates its own atmosphere. Bands of colour shimmer across a canvas, vying for my attention. First hot pink, like the last traces of a sunset. Then the golden orange of high summer, when it’s so hot and bright that surfaces become radiant. Finally, a calm green creeps across my retina, growing more intense

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