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Special event for Ireland at UN HQ in New York to mark an historic moment for the nation 100 years ago
Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin TD, will open the exhibition. Entitled ‘On an Equal Footing with All, Ireland at the League of Nations 1923-1946’ it marks the centenary of Ireland’s membership of the League of Nations, the first worldwide state-level political organisation, created in the aftermath of the First…
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This Week in Culture: November 20
William Kentridge, The World is Leaking, 2023. Image courtesy of the artist and Goodman Gallery. Welcome to This Week in Culture, a weekly agenda of show openings and events in major cities across the globe. From galleries to institutions and one-of-a-kind happenings, our ongoing survey highlights the best of contemporary culture, for those willing to…
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CTAC Holiday Art Show & Sale presents 118 pieces of artwork
#inform-video-player-1 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } #inform-video-player-2 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } When a local art gallery initiates a call for art, artists show up and the gallery walls are illuminated with colorful pieces and inspirational artwork. The Chisholm Trail Arts Council (CTAC) returned for its sixth annual Holiday Art Show…
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Music Hall’s Robin Albert: ‘Communities just don’t work without volunteers’
PORTSMOUTH — Robin Albert of Portsmouth feels right at home in a theater. She has volunteered at The Music Hall for 15 years. “My background is in the arts, in theater, so volunteering in the arts brought me back to my origins,” she said. She grew up 12 miles from Manhattan. Her mother was a…
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Native American arts center in Eastern Oregon welcomes new leader
For more than 30 years, Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts has operated inside a small, 19th-century stucco building that was once a Catholic mission on the Umatilla Reservation in Eastern Oregon. In October, Phinney Brown became the organization’s executive director and a big part of her job will be to lead a capital campaign…
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Review: Southern/Modern exhibit explores the South
What comes to mind when you think of the South? Does it conjure images of wrap-around porches and sweet tea? Or does it summon images of discrimination? The “Southern/Modern” exhibit at the Georgia Museum of Art presents various paintings of the South through over 100 works created during the first half of the 20th century.…
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New exhibits at AAM; Museum announces Members’ Exhibit winners
The Academy Art Museum in Easton has announced two new winter exhibits and has also named the winners of its Annual Members’s Exhibition.
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20 Best Places to Live in Europe
In 2022, more than 75,000 Americans moved to Europe. The Netherlands, for example, saw an increase from 15,500 to 24,000 Americans moving in over the last five years, while Spain’s American expat numbers jumped 13 percent, from an estimated 20,000 to nearly 34,000 in the same time frame, according to statistics from the European Union.…
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Alexander, Alexandria, and a tribute to a great Egyptian city
Alexander the Great never saw the city he envisioned and had named after himself almost two and a half millennia ago. He was there to map it out, using grains of barley as the story goes, only to leave and carry on his conquests, before dying at the age of 32 in Babylon, more than…
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Gallery marks ten years of arts and culture with exhibition of artists and makers
Woven Stories also marks one of the final exhibitions curated by gallery director Jane Kay, who is leaving Sunny Bank Mills in Farsley after a decade at the helm. More than 30 artists and makers are taking part in Woven Stories with work that includes painting, print, textiles and ceramics. Jane Kay said: “All the…
