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The Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi launches the Abu Dhabi Public Art Initiative and unveils the artwork "Wave"
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, March 21, 2023: Today, the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi launched its latest initiative, “Abu Dhabi Public Art,” in an effort to enhance the emirate’s long-standing legacy of investing in culture, instilling it in the minds and consciences of individuals and the urban fabric of society. The launch event included the unveiling…
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Famed art dealer Larry Gagosian and artist Anna Weyant arrive in New York
Famed art dealer Larry Gagosian and his rising artist girlfriend Anna Weyant, who is 50 years his junior, were spotted in New York City together on Sunday — less than a year after she signed with his gallery amid a bitter fallout with her former dealer. The gallery owner, 77, and the Canadian painter, 27, who have been dating for about…
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‘Wellaging’, the art of aging in a ‘natural’ way
According to Dr. Leticia Fasano, a specialist in Aesthetic Medicine and Plastic Surgery at Clínica Opción Médica, the ‘wellaging’ trend is a concept that refers to the ability to age ‘naturally’, without resorting to surgeries or invasive treatments.” Stopping the passage of time to curb the signs of aging is the desire of many. However, although aging is a natural…
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Arts
Mike Mignola, Lemony Snicket’s ‘Pinocchio’ Book Gets First Look at Art
A new, hot literary collab just dropped: Hellboy creator Mike Mignola and Lemony Snicket from “A Series of Unfortunate Events” fame are partnering up for an illustrated and annotated edition of Carlo Collodi’s classic novel “Pinocchio.” Variety has the first look of the little wooden boy, reimagined by Mignola. Teaming back up with award-winning colorist Dave Stewart, Mignola returned to…
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Breaking News
New York Magazine art critic tells followers to 'shun' family and friends who vote for Republicans
Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic for New York Magazine Jerry Saltz advised his social media followers to ‘shun’ anyone in their lives who had voted for Republican political candidates. To his 603,000 Instagram followers on Sunday, Saltz wrote: ‘If you know anyone who voted Republican – including friends and family – you should shun them. ‘You own it [sic] yourself, to…
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USA
We’re recycling Putin’s missiles as art to fund the war effort. Defiant Ukrainians have learned to be creative | Andrey Kurkov
The festival of St Tryphon – the patron saint of winemakers – attracted no tourists this year. This saint is very much loved in Bessarabia, the largely ethnic-Bulgarian area of Ukraine’s Odesa region, where the February feast is always a much-awaited event. This year, villagers pruned their vines and celebrated quietly by themselves. Given the tragedy of the war in…
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Celebrity
The secret of Yousra and Hussein Fahmy’s meeting at a plastic art exhibition.
Cairo: Hany Kamal El Din The two stars, Hussein Fahmy and Yousra, gathered together at the Townhouse Gallery in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, to attend the joint art exhibition of artists Hossam Dirar and Maher Diab, in support of their artistic experience that drew attention to them, as the two stars invested hours of stopping filming their Ramadan works to…
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First Sackler, now Bet365. The art world can’t keep taking money from companies that do us harm | Hannah Jane Parkinson
In Laura Poitras’s Oscar-nominated documentary, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, we watch as members of the Sackler family – then-owners of the pharmaceutical behemoth behind America’s opioid crisis – are confronted with the testimony of those affected. They sit impassively as a recording is played of a desperate mother’s 911 call after finding her son dead from overdose. Another…
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Arts
Liu Jian’s Berlin Competition Entry ‘Art College 1994’ Unveils Clip, Poster
Sales agency Memento Intl. has unveiled the first clip and poster from Liu Jian’s Berlin competition title “Art College 1994,” which world premieres on Feb. 24. The film is a portrait of youth set on the campus of the Chinese Southern Academy of Arts in the early 1990s. Against the backdrop of reforms opening China to the Western world, a…
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Art Directors Guild Awards Red Carpet Photos: Nicole Kidman, Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Guillermo del Toro & More
The Art Directors Guild came together tonight to celebrate the 27th Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown on Saturday night, February 18, 2023. The awards took place before over 1,000 guild members, and industry executives with the ADG President Nelson Coates, ADG, and Art Directors Council Chair Evan Rohde, […] Source of data and…
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