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Mural coming to Linnentown Lane, artist needed
Linnentown Lane is welcoming a mural in the coming months. The Athens-Clarke County Unified Government has created an opportunity for artists to submit applications to be considered for public art in Linnentown Lane. The goal of this artwork will be to capture the joy and sense of life in Linnentown, while also speaking to the…
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Sculpture coming to Linnentown Lane, artist needed
Linnentown Lane is welcoming a sculpture in the coming months. The Athens-Clarke County Unified Government has created an opportunity for artists to submit applications to be considered for public art in Linnentown Lane. The goal of this artwork will be to capture the joy and sense of life in Linnentown, while also speaking to the…
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Last nonprofit art school in SF faces uncertain future
The California College of the Arts is San Francisco’s last remaining nonprofit art school, but it remains to be seen for how much longer. Ex // Top Stories
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Ten museum shows to see in every New England state
CONNECTICUT DIVINE GEOMETRY: ISLAMIC ART AT THE WADSWORTH ATHENEUM Drawn from the museum’s permanent collection, this exhibition expands on the historic motifs of Islamic art with modern and contemporary pieces that contain echoes of an ancient aesthetic practice defined by its crisp forms and elegant visual rhythms. Nov. 27-April 13. Wadsworth Atheneum, 600 Main St.,…
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A Short Visual History of America, According to the Irreverent Comic Artist R. Crumb
[embedded content] As a founder of the “underground comix” movement in the 1960s, R. Crumb is either revered as a pioneering satirist of American culture and its excesses or reviled as a juvenile purveyor of painfully outmoded sexist and racist stereotypes. Crumb doesn’t apologize. He keeps working, and his fans are grateful. He has parlayed…
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WVCSD Artist of the Week: Dania Barillas
As part of its ongoing Artist of the Week feature, Warwick Valley High School recently highlighted senior Dania Barillas. Barillas is a talented violinist who began playing in third grade and has never let up. She’s now in her ninth year as a performing musician here in Warwick Valley, while also developing her skills as…
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Concordia co-hosts the first major gathering focused solely on Inuit visual arts since 2011
Making Waves In collaboration with the MMFA, Avataq Cultural Institute, La Guilde, Concordia, and the university’s FOFA Gallery, the Inuit Futures Symposium will be the first major gathering focused solely on Inuit visual arts since the Inuit Modern Symposium that took place in Toronto on February 4, 2011. The three-day gathering will be an opportunity…
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Pakistani PM’s climate aide highlights visual arts’ role in wildlife protection
Coordinator to Pakistan’s Prime Minister on Climate Change, Romina Khurshid Alam on Friday said that while the climate change impacts grow more frequent and intense, innovative approaches such as painting and visual arts can play a vital role to sensitise policymakers and public about various threats being faced by the wildlife species and their habitats…
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Multiple Speaks: A Review of the Thirty-Eighth Panorama da Arte Brasileira at MAC USP
Installation view of 38º Panorama da Arte Brasileira, 2024, at MAC USP/Photo: Ruy Teixeira Days after the intense heat waves and fires in large areas of Brazil have cooled down, we have arrived at “Mil Graus” (A Thousand Degrees), a good example of the current Brazilian artistic fervor. Fire and heat lead the thirty-eighth Panorama…
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As Georgia Decides Its Future, Artists Are Worried About Theirs
On a sultry late summer night, in a horseshoe-shaped club cantilevered over the Mtkvari River that cuts Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi, in two, the artist and drag performer Andro Dadiani was belting out the last bars of his aria act a cappella. Wearing a sweeping ball skirt the same shade of blue as the European Union…