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San Diego weekend arts events: Music for Ukraine, Jonny Alexander, ‘Belonging,’ Space 4 Art and more
This weekend in the arts: Spreckels Organ Society; Jonny Alexander at Swish; 50 years of San Diego Dance Theater; Word Up! returns to The Old Globe; Nathan Hubbard pairs Dorothea Grossman poetry with sound; Space 4 Art open studios; and “Retelling/Recontar” at Art Produce. Jonny Alexander: ‘Heavy Levity’ Visual art Courtesy of the artistArtist Jonny Alexander is pictured with his painting, “Heavy Levity” (and the subject matter). The work will be on view at Swish Projects beginning Mar. 18, 2022. Swish Projects will show a solo exhibition of new works by Jonny Alexander, called “Heavy Levity.” This exhibition is centered around a series of large paintings on canvas, contrasting natural…
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Launched by Art-World Insiders, the New NFT Platform Artwrld Is Trying to Corner the Market Where Traditional and Crypto Art Meet
If the mention of NFTs elicits eye rolls in the modern artwork environment, it’s practically normally for one particular rationale: compound. Even if it’s a generalization or a stereotype, crypto-artwork has a name for lacking rigor and depth. Signing onto the chat is Artwrld, a new NFT platform that aims to bridge the gap involving these two fields by bringing founded modern artists into the electronic space. Among the its founders are Nato Thompson, the previous creative director at Philadelphia Modern and main curator at Artistic Time, and Josh Goldblum, the CEO of Bluecadet design company. Rather than a brief way to income in on a trend, Goldblum pitches Artwrld…
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Cleveland Museum of Art announces ticket availability for ‘The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion’
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Tickets for the Cleveland Museum of Art’s upcoming main exhibition, “The New Black Vanguard: Photography in between Artwork and Trend,” will be readily available to users setting up Monday and to the community starting off March 28. The museum introduced the facts about ticket availability Wednesday morning. Arranged by Aperture, New York, and curated by critic and author Antwaun Sargent, the photography display will target on portraits and conceptual visuals that fuse artwork and manner pictures. It will be on check out from May possibly 8 to Sept. 11. Tickets are $12 for adults, $10 for seniors, students, and children ages 6 to 17, and cost-free to…
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Editors’ Picks: 12 Events for Your Art Calendar, From the Return of Asia Week IRL to an Anti-Patriarchy Billboard Blitz
Each week, we search for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events, both digitally and in-person in the New York area. See our picks from around the world below. (Times are all ET unless otherwise noted.) Tuesday, March 15 Barbara Chase-Riboud, Malcolm X #3, (1969), 125th Anniversary acquisition. Purchased with funds contributed by Regina and Ragan A. Henry, and with funds raised in honor of the 125th Anniversary of the museum in celebration of African American art, 2001-92-1) © Barbara Chase-Riboud. 1. “(Re)membering through Repetition: Seriality and Memorial Art” at the Philadelphia Show Jessica Todd Smith, curator of American art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Gwendolyn DuBois…
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Artist Derrick Adams celebrates Black wig styles in impressive paintings at Cleveland Museum of Art
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Black American artists typically have portrayed racial injustice by means of images of conflict and suffering. Derrick Adams, a remarkably acclaimed mid-occupation New York artist, whose get the job done is the subject of an classy and seductive exhibition on see at the Cleveland Museum of Art, has taken a various path. The 52-year-outdated multidisciplinary artist portrays Black lifestyle by photos of ravishing elegance that are steeped in his deep awareness of artwork historical past and a commitment to very polished visible contemplating and object-making. Adams’s work certainly phone calls consideration to inequality and cultural blindness in a greater part white modern society, but it does so…
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Charleston Co. schools rolls out art therapy amid spike in mental health concerns
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) – The Charleston County School District is taking action to meet the mental health needs of its students after a report in December showed a disturbing increase in concerning behavior. That report found suicide assessments in schools were up 45{5b4d37f3b561c14bd186647c61229400cd4722d6fb37730c64ddff077a6b66c6} across the district, while assessments of threats to others and to buildings were up over 50{5b4d37f3b561c14bd186647c61229400cd4722d6fb37730c64ddff077a6b66c6}. Along with a wave of hiring’s aimed at getting more mental health professionals in the classroom, the district has also started a new program called art therapy. In partnership with the Medical University of South Carolina, the district is testing out one-hour, once a week art therapy classes at five schools.…