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Digital billboards, which sparked furious opposition two years ago, are now popping up along major streets
Looking at a screen, members of the Baltimore Planning Commission got a preview of one of the new digital billboards coming to downtown and visuals for some additional signs they were being asked to approve. One mock-up showed a 20-foot-high by 40-foot-wide digital billboard, wrapped around the corner of a building, hawking Planet Fitness –…
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Shop for Unique Finds at the Del Ray Artisans 28th Annual Fine Art & Fine Craft Holiday Market
Artist Maxine Cholmondeley, Max’s Mixtures Candles & Soaps (All Photos: Del Ray Artisan) Alexandria, VA – Looking for great gifts that are unique, hand-crafted, and special? Then you must be at the Del Ray Artisans’ 28th Annual Holiday Market the first three weekends in December. “You might want to attend all three because different artists…
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A new book looks at the art of Tantric Buddhism
‘Buddhism: A Journey Through Art’ looks at Asia’s Buddhist visual art traditions, especially that of tantric Buddhist painting and sculpture Over its long, 2,500 year old history, the art of Buddhism has undergone many changes, while staying true, in essence, to the Buddha’s tenets of liberation and compassion. The ways that these changes have manifested…
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Arup celebrates triple success at HKIOA Acoustics Awards 2023
M+ Our acoustic design for M+ has cliched the Silver Award in the Architectural Acoustics category. Housing 17,000m² of exhibition space across 33 galleries, along with a range of facilities and office spaces, M+ hosts a vast collection of over 7,000 works of visual arts and more than 46,000 archival objects. It was therefore critical,…
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‘Cash for Your Warhol’ Goes Worldwide | Magazine
So far, I’ve avoided being arrested,” is how Geoff L. Hargadon ’76 concludes our 90-minute interview. “No animals have been harmed in the making of this project. I think it’s given people a few laughs, and it’s also puzzled some people.” Hargadon, a wealth management adviser, conceived his “Cash for Your Warhol” project as a…
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Raclin Murphy Museum of Art opens after more than two years of construction // The Observer
The Raclin Murphy Museum of Art opened to student on Friday, Dec. 1, 2023. This weekend, the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art, located just north of Eddy Street, opened its doors to the public for the first time after more than two years of construction and 16 years of planning. Students were the first ones…
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Mixed media artists connects creations to human spirit
The Museum of Art Fort Collins presented “Terry Maker: In Which the Progeny of the Hero Shapes the Dust,” made with materials ranging from jawbreakers to graphite. Terry Maker is a mixed media artist with a focus on “works emerging from humble origins,” she said. Maker has been working for 40 years to manipulate and…
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How mobile technologies have changed visual culture and landscape | Contemporary Lynx – print and online magazine on art & visual culture
In 2023, artificial intelligence has penetrated all areas of life, art and visual culture surprisingly swiftly. Thousands of digital tools, services and products based on AI have been produced this year, while the success of Chat GPT and Dalle-e 2 has resulted in notorious redundancies and strikes in the creative industry. However, these profound changes…
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Indiana High School art students decorate windows of personal care home
Junior and senior students of the Visual Arts and Portfolio Club at Indiana Area Senior High School spent Friday afternoon decorating windows with a Christmas landscape scene at Indiana Square Personal Care Home. Liz Roach, director of activities for Indiana Square, reached out to art teachers Beth Porter and Jen Rinkevich to coordinate a holiday…
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Visual artists reflect on a year of creativity and community
Chapel Hill Community Arts & Culture aims to beautify the town and add interest to the everyday Chapel Hill experience by installing art in places people might encounter it unexpectedly, Wright said. “Our mission is to inspire creativity and celebrate the community in Chapel Hill,” he said. “And through public art, we often do that…