Nigerian singer Mr Eazi, a global popstar known for hits like “Skin Tight,” “Bankulize,” and “Leg Over,” is collaborating with top African visual artists for his upcoming debut album, the artist told ARTnews. For the album rollout, Eazi will work with contemporary artists to create unique art pieces to accompany each song. The pieces will be tokenized and shared with the public through specially-curated ...
PORT ANGELES — Elementary students are blooming with creativity in an exhibit at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center. The Blooming Artists Exhibit will be on display from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursdays through Sundays beginning this Thursday and continuing through June 19. On Tuesday, the center at 1203 E. Lauridsen Blvd. in Port Angeles hosted a reception for the student artists from ...
Nearly half of all art exhibitions showcased by U.S. museums between 2017 and 2021 were dedicated to less than five percent of a quarter of a million artists, ranging from those born at the start of the 20th century to those working today, according to a new survey. The report, authored by art economist Clare McAndrew and published last week by UBS, laid out ...
Following last week’s vandalism of a Documenta exhibition space, nearly every artist involved in this year’s edition of the famed recurring art exhibition, called for the increased protection of Palestinian participants. Days before their statement was published on the platform e-flux, Documenta filed a criminal complaint with the city of Kassel, Germany, where the show is held once every five years. Documenta reported that ...
Pictured are some of the works on display inside the art gallery.The gallery opened on Chautauqua Avenue in Lakewood in January 2018. In April of this year, it moved to its new location at 318 N. Main St. in Jamestown. “I started Chautauqua Art Gallery in 2018 in Lakewood to create a small art studio for myself and a place to display my paintings,” ...
Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, a Cuban dissident artist, is set to stand trial in a Cuban court at the end of the month, human rights groups announced on social media today. Otero Alcántara, a visual artist and member of the San Isidro Movement, a collective of artists and dissidents fighting censorship in Cuba, was arrested last July amid island-wide anti-government demonstrations. Otero Alcántara has ...
The Brazilian multimedia artist Paulo Nazareth traveled from Minas Gerais to New York on foot in his durational performance a decade ago and washed the dirt from his tired feet with the water from the Hudson River—only to walk back to his homeland to complete his artistic mission, Noticias de America. Nezareth is back in New York this week to inaugurate the Brazilian gallery ...
Marcela Guerrero, an associate curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, is spearheading two major exhibitions this year: No Existe Un Mundo Poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria and Martine Gutierrez: Supremacy. She was part of the team behind the seminal show Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-1945 and as a curatorial fellow at the Hammer Museum ...
Against the backdrop of a busy week for art in New York headlined by the Frieze art fair, a sale of 60 works of Impressionist and modern art at Sotheby’s on Monday evening brought in a total of $408.5 million. Of the entire grouping of 58 works offered, 33 were backed by the auction house with a guarantee or an irrevocable bid. By the ...
