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Culture Ministry to increase funding for art projects, support more artists next year
Culture Minister Yu In-chon speaks the ministry’s key strategies for 2024 on Thursday at the Modu Art Theater in Seodaemun District, western Seoul. [YONHAP] The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said Thursday it will move away from one-time, small grants distributed to a wide range of artists toward more targeted and impactful support for…
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Order of Canada appointees in the arts – December 2023
Advertisement / Publicité This page is also available in / Cette page est également disponible en: Francais (French) Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon, Governor General of Canada, has announced new appointments to the Order of Canada. The following are the music and arts related appointments: Officers Joséphine Bacon, O.C., O.Q.Montréal, QuebecFor her significant…
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DCASE’s Individual Artists Program helps make Afrofuturistic dreams come true
Hunter’s installation, located at the Hyde Park Art Center until March 3, is inspired by two books by Butler, “The Parable of the Sower” and Xenogenesis Series. “I’ve been in love with her work for a very long time. This is the first time I really got to investigate what her worlds would look like…
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Home is where the Art is: Boulder Art Association turns a century old
In 1923, Boulder was forever changed when Jean Sherwood, a prominent art patron, and FBR Hellems, the Dean of Arts and Sciences at the University of Colorado, took a good, hard look at the city’s cultural landscape. The pair envisioned the creation of an art club, to enrich Boulder’s cultural life and enhance CU students’…
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Art to look forward to in 2024
Happy almost-New Year from the desk of the KPBS/Arts Calendar editor and KPBS/Arts newsletter writer. Year-round, I keep my eye on what’s going on in art and culture, but I especially love looking ahead as we start a new year. Here is a round-up of some of the visual art, theater, music, dance, books and…
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Costas Picadas: Universe/Meta-verse at Donopoulus International Fine Arts
Costas Picadas, Universe/Metaverse 9, 2023, Print on Archival paper 3D model, 8X10 inches By ROBERT C. MORGAN December 28, 2023 The art of Costas Picadas is equally persuasive in terms of its exemplary concept and course of development. Over the years, he has become a multi-media artist who works as decisively with painting as he…
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Crawling Performance Art Pioneer Pope.L Dies at 68
One of Observer’s Arts Power 50 changemakers in 2019, the performance and installation artist William Pope.L was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1955, and much of his initial artistic studies as well as the early portion of his career were spent in and around Manhattan. He then spent decades making art that interrogated both…
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Pope.L, the Provocative Performance Artist, Has Died at Age 68
William Pope.L, the performance and conceptual artist whose provocative works surfaced the complexities of race and class in America, has died aged 68. His passing was announced by his gallery, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, which wrote in an Instagram post: “Pope.L fundamentally challenged and changed the last 50 years of visual art in the United…
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Local Artists Weigh in on AI Art
I’m not an artist by any means, but I made this (or, “made” this, depending on how you think about it) by using AI. It took me about fifteen seconds – I went to starryai.com, typed in “impressionistic painting of Cave Point in Door County,” and this was one of the results it gave me.…
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Alt Power 100 Artlyst 2023 – End Of Year History Making
Welcome to the Alt Power 100 Artlyst 2023, an exclusive exploration of influential figures reshaping the contemporary art and cultural landscape. Within this dynamic List, we transcend the confines of traditional power dynamics, directing our focus towards individuals who wield influence through less conventional avenues, innovative expressions, and groundbreaking ideas. The Alt Power 100 Artlyst…