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‘This Very Moment May Be Your Deadline’: Pioneering Video Artist Zhang Peili on Pushing the Boundaries of Media
Just 10 years after Deng Xiaoping, the former leader of the People’s Republic of China, launched the country’s sweeping economic reforms, a time when television and video cameras were still largely inaccessible to the general public, the artist Zhang Peili made a revolutionary artwork. His 1988 single-channel video 30 x 30, a 180-minute unedited recording…
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Remembering Buthayna Ali: Syrian artist leaves lasting legacy on the creative scene she helped transform
Syrian artist Buthayna Ali, who has died at the age of 51, launched Madad Art Foundation in 2023. Photo: Hasan BelalSyrian artist Buthayna Ali, who has died at the age of 51, launched Madad Art Foundation in 2023. Photo: Hasan Belal University of Damascus professor was behind a number of powerful works and exhibitions Danny…
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Facility Spotlight: Full Sail University’s Film Soundstages
If you’re wondering where film students on Full Sail University’s campus gather, there’s a good chance you will find them working hard in one of its state-of-the-art soundstages. “It gives them a community space to create their projects,” explains Jason Boyette, the Department Chair for Film & Television and a Course Director for Project and…
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New multi-artist gallery will enhance Sisters’ arts scene
Brad Earl was in the midst of a successful 46-year career as an architect when his wife Dale McCullough encouraged him to take up painting. That was 26 years ago, when his daughter Sloane was young. Sloane had already shown a knack for the visual arts. “She’s been a sketcher since she was two years…
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Unlock South Asian Art History with The MAP Academy
Unlock South Asian Art History with The MAP Academy ByHT Brand Studio Oct 22, 2024 05:10 PM IST Share Via Copy Link Expand your horizons with in-depth histories of art movements across South Asia, the MAP Academy is the destination for you. Rashmi Ghosh, a chartered accountant by profession, was feeling trapped in the drudgery…
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Newark Arts Alliance exhibit showcases ‘socially engaged art’
The latest exhibit at the Newark Arts Alliance, “Visual Messages: Socially Engaged Art,” asks viewers to consider: how do we engage artistically with the world and our community? The exhibit features 45 pieces from 25 local artists depicting a wide variety of topics including the environment, homelessness, politics, world peace and health. Media types range…
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Local artists hold exhibits at Arts Center
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New art exhibit opens on campus discussing climate change
As you make your way deeper into the gallery of our campus’ Fine Arts Building, 12 scrolls unfurl from the ceiling to the floor, each overlapping the next as the image slowly comes into view. A life-sized drawing of a neighborhood torn apart by the effects of climate change rests against the wall, overlaid with…
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Art About Life, Death, and Clowning
To start at the end, Keith Puccinelli’s fascinating posthumous show POOCH: The Art Full Life of Keith Julius Puccinelli ends its story with a vision of the artist’s own death. Wending back through the UCSB Art, Design & Architecture (AD&A) Museum to its deepest gallery, we come across the grimly witty piece “Yet Another Dead…
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New Portrait Exhibit, ‘Celebrating Seniors’, Opens October 25
A new visual arts exhibition is opening on October 25 at the John D. Spreckels Center to celebrate its reopening and the community members who bring it to life. Over the summer, the Coronado Cultural Arts Commission put out a call to Coronado-based photographers involved in the community to capture portraits of Coronado seniors. “We…