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Art Basel Miami Beach Returns, Smaller but Ready to Party
MIAMI BEACH — It’s back. Canceled last year because of Covid-19, the annual Art Basel Miami Beach fair returns next week, unfolding throughout the area. Beginning on Tuesday with invitation-only hours, and open to the public Thursday through Saturday, it will feature 253 galleries exhibiting work inside the city’s Convention Center, as well as a dizzying number of accompanying satellite art fairs, pop-up shows, and celebrity-studded private dinners. It’s a sprawling cultural circus that has come to be called “Miami Art Week,” complete with corporate branding exercises, from a sculptural forest by the stage designer Es Devlin (commissioned by a Chanel fragrance) to a “Yacht the Basel” fete hosted by…
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New Art Dealers Alliance Announces MobileCoin Art Prize, To Be Awarded at NADA Miami 2021
NADA miami 2021 The New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA), the definitive non-profit arts organization dedicated to the cultivation, support, and advancement of new voices in contemporary art, is partnering with MobileCoin for the inaugural MobileCoin Art Prize, an award that highlights, celebrates, and supports artwork addressing the critical topic of privacy at NADA Miami 2021. Juried by writer and curator Andrew Beradini and contemporary artist and MobileCoin Art Director Inga Bard, the prize is the first of its kind within the cryptocurrency sector, establishing MobileCoin as an industry pioneer thoughtfully navigating the intersection between art and cryptocurrency. It will be awarded to one of the 170 plus exhibitors at NADA Miami 2021 in the form of $7,500 equivalent to…
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New art gallery brings opportunity for artists, art lovers | Local News
OSKALOOSA — Artists in Mahaska County and beyond now have the opportunity to showcase their work at the newly-opened Envision Art Gallery. Located in Penn Central Mall, the gallery has something for every price point, from $5 prints to $1,000 paintings and everything in between. Owner Vera Babich decided to open the gallery after noticing a high concentration of artists and art lovers in the area. “It is a very artistically rich and diverse community,” she said. “Since we moved here in 2009, we’ve met so many talented people and seen so much beautiful art done by them.” SEGUE “We needed a place where people can come any time and…
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For Thanksgiving, check out new Native art in Seattle
Movies and virtual events Due to experience gained by all those pandemic pivots, virtual art events abound this year, which means you can enjoy including Native films, visual art shows and readings from your couch. >> Washington state’s poet laureate, Bellingham-based poet Rena Priest (a member of the Lhaq’temish/Lummi Nation), will join two other Indigenous poets, New Zealand-based Iona Winter (Waitaha/Kāti Māmoe/Kāi Tahu/Pākehā) and Tacoma-based Sasha LaPointe, a Coast Salish author from the Nooksack and Upper Skagit Indian tribes for a reading co-hosted by Seattle City of Literature and Dunedin (NZ) City of Literature. The writers will discuss their work and shared resonances in a prerecorded virtual talk (Dec. 1, 6-7…
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New York’s Midcentury Art Scene Springs to Life in ‘The Loft Generation’
They are a spiky, ambitious lot. We encounter the poet John Ashbery, to whom Schloss complained about being called “semiabstract” by a critic. “‘Isn’t all life semi?’” he replied consolingly. And the composer Elliott Carter, who sneered of folk music’s influence on modern urbans: “We are not shepherds. We are not coming out of the hills. We are not folk.” The dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham rears up “like a furry old faun”; the gallerist Leo Castelli has a Felix Unger-ish fastidiousness. Explore the New York Times Book Review Want to keep up with the latest and greatest in books? This is a good place to start. Schloss writes of…
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Mini grants fund new art initiatives in Alachua County
Johanna Weiss spent the summertime creating desire in her two university student bands, but devoid of enough funding, putting collectively reside performances appeared out of attain. Just after getting a $1,000 artwork grant, however, the band director of Gainesville’s Expressions Studying Arts Academy said her associates are established for good results. “This grant has been certainly a godsend,” Weiss said. The Alachua County Arts Council not long ago declared four recipients for the $1,000 mini arts grants: Weiss, Corey Cheval, MusicGNV and Y-Not Theatre. Newberry and Superior Springs each gained a $1,500 matching grant, which means they need to fundraise a part of the dollars. The grants had been funded…