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Art on the Lake: A celebration of creativity and community in Sahuarita
SAHUARITA, Ariz. (KGUN) — On Saturday, Jan. 11, Sahuarita Lake came alive with vibrant colors, engaging sounds and the unmistakable energy of community spirit as the Southern Arizona Arts and Cultural Alliance (SAACA) hosted its annual Art on the Lake festival. A unique fusion of interactive art installations, cultural experiences and community participation, the festival…
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David Lynch Was The Artist of Our Time
Across the entire spectrum of great American icons, there is no one quite like David Lynch. He was a walking enigma: an artist’s artist who was also somehow mainstream, an unapologetic esotericist whose work still managed to be immediately though ineffably understood, a well-known and highly regarded director who was nevertheless completely underrated. He’s arguably…
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What a poet says about Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Have fun exploring the city with Play List, Mirror Indy’s midweek arts and culture newsletter. Sign up here: Support local news Our journalism will always be free because of donations from readers like you. Last year — when Mirror Indy was still only a few weeks old — we commissioned “HIGHWIRE,” a poem by Mitchell…
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How artists are mobilizing for fire victims and first responders: L.A. arts and culture this week
As thousands of firefighters continue to battle the Palisades and Eaton fires and the unfathomable damage is assessed, the arts communities are mobilizing. Actors, musicians and comedians are putting together performances that benefit those affected by the blazes. Theaters are making donations to firefighters and first responders, sharing their surplus costume stock and offering their…
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Lisa Nandy vows to bulldoze barriers in arts and turbocharge growth
Arts and the creative industries will be a key part of the UK government’s drive for economic growth, the culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, has said as she promised to “bulldoze” barriers that hold back potential. Nandy gave a speech in Gateshead where she vowed to “turbocharge” the nation’s creative industries, whether film, television, music, fashion,…
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Events in and around Spokane this weekend
Check out these five can’t-miss events happening around the Inland Northwest this weekend. See even more events in our calendar listings. <a href="https://media1.inlander.com/inlander/imager/u/original/29240914/2551_d031_00223r.webp" rel="contentImg_gal-29240911" title data-caption=" ” class=”uk-display-block uk-position-relative uk-visible-toggle”> click to enlarge Broadway RaveFri, Jan. 17 at 8:30 pmThe District Bar I would be lying if I said I didn’t feel superior for my…
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San Antonio Mayor Set to Receive National Arts Award
Published on January 17, 2025 SAN ANTONIO (January 17, 2025) – The Americans for the Arts and The United States Conference of Mayors will present San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg with a distinguished arts leadership award on Sunday, January 19 during the 93rd Winter Meeting of The United States Conference of Mayors in…
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Review: Is Strange Woodcraft an art exhibit … or sex shop?
Staring at Gord Peteran’s sculpture “Untitled So Far,” an almost phallic bulge of wood, I sought to figure out where this object could possibly belong: Bobbing out at sea, like a buoy? Or maybe in the aisles of a fashionable sex shop? An ancient tomb? The answer is inside the Museum of Art in Wood,…
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How the World Economic Forum is offering a global stage for collaboration between art and technology
The opening concert at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos is the event where Joseph Fowler, WEF’s head of arts and culture, presents one of the meeting’s cultural statements—inspired by the forum’s focus on sustainability, innovation and global progress—to 2,500 high-profile delegates from the worlds of politics, business and academia…
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Jann Hanworth: a work in progress for recognition of women
The acclaimed US-born Pop artist Jann Haworth sees Work in Progress—the mural project she has been working on since 2016 with her artist daughter Liberty Blake—as a reckoning for the lack of women in Haworth’s best-known piece, the legendary cover of the Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967, co-created with her then husband…