April 26, 2024
Visual artists

United Visual Artists: Chromatic

Inside one of the Synchronicity exhibition’s most striking new audiovisual works. Showing as part of Synchronicity, United Visual Artists’ largest exhibition to date, Chromatic is an immersive audiovisual work commissioned by 180 Studios that explores the relationship between frequencies of sound and colour. Inspired by chromeosthesis, a type of synesthesia where sound evokes impressions of

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Visual Arts & Sound Art MFA applications and open studios

Visual Arts & Sound Art MFA applications and open studios Sound Art information session: November 12, 10am ET Visual Arts information session: November 12, 2023, 11am ET Class of 2024 open studios: November 12, 2–5pm ET Columbia University School of the Arts Dodge Hall 2960 Broadway New York, New York 10027United States arts@columbia.edu Applications are

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Richmond artists promote work in new directory and studio event this weekend

Lauren Ari proudly calls herself a Richmond artist. It’s where she has lived and sculpted and drawn for more than 20 years. It’s also where she finds support, among dozens of other artists who have made the same decision.  “I always had that fantasy of, ‘Oh, one day I’ll move to the country and all

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Painters and Visual Artist Memphis Art Renaissance

Black History Month gives us an opportunity to pay homage to some great black artists Memphis: from Aretha Franklin (yes, Detroit – she was born here), Issac Hayes, Ernest Withers and George Hunt. Memphis has and continues to birth culture creators and shifters.  There’s been a fresh wave of creatives sweeping over Memphis over the

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Permanent Concealment and the Visual Artist Rights Act of 1990

In Kerson v. Vermont Law School, 79 F.4th 257 (2d Cir. 2023), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit considered whether the permanent concealment of controversial murals violated the mural creator’s rights under the Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 (VARA) to prevent the intentional modification of his work. In a unanimous opinion

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St. Louis artists to know right now

You can’t really swing a paintbrush in St. Louis without hitting somebody making amazing visual art. We’ve got world-class museums and cutting-edge galleries, a thriving public art scene, and all manner of local geniuses toiling away in their studios here and across the country and world. What follows barely scratches the surface of the best of

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Crack Mix 530: GAUNT

GAUNT’s music carries a haunting, both in the eerie sense and in an uncanny beauty. The alias of musician and visual artist Jack Warne, as GAUNT his work is steeped in a multi-sensory surrealism that draws on his experiences of living with Thiel-Behnke Corneal Dystrophy, a rare eye condition, and which the title of his

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Louth saxophonist Robert Finegan looks forward to launching debut EP in Dundalk

Robert’s dad is the well-known local photographer Ken Finegan, whose work can be seen in The Argus every week, and Tara’s father is a visual artist. Having crowd-funded for the EP, they decided to embrace modern technology, so not only would the music be available on streaming platforms, but listeners could use a QR which

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