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Ena Swansea
Ena Swansea (born 1966) is an artist based in New York City. Her paintings often take memory as a point of departure. Early life Swansea was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. Her parents, an architect and an editor, were Quakers active in the civil rights and anti-draft movements in the 1960s. She studied painting and film at the University of South Florida in Tampa. Work Swansea makes paintings in both oil and water based materials, extensively experimenting with their chemistry. As Barry Schwabsky describes in his 2017 review of Swansea's work in Artforum, "Swansea has developed an unusual technique of painting on a graphite-infused ground, which seems to situate everything in a darkly glimmering, indistinct twilit space; you might even call the resulting light effects Caravaggesque. On this ground, where brush marks often seem to float discretely, the paintings’ imagery may appear to be in a state of dissolution—but it never comes close to being unrecognizable." She wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte, North Carolina
Charlotte ( ) is the List of municipalities in North Carolina, most populous city in the U.S. state of North Carolina and the county seat of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, Mecklenburg County. The population was 874,579 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making Charlotte the List of United States cities by population, 14th-most populous city in the United States, the seventh-most populous city in Southern United States, the South, and the second-most populous city in the Southeastern United States, Southeast behind Jacksonville, Florida. Charlotte is the cultural, economic, and transportation center of the Charlotte metropolitan area, whose estimated 2023 population of 2,805,115 ranked Metropolitan statistical area, 22nd in the United States. The Charlotte metropolitan area is part of an 18-county market region and combined statistical area with an estimated population of 3,387,115 as of 2023. Between 2004 and 2014, Charlotte was among the country's fastest-grow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boca Raton Museum Of Art
Founded by artists, the Boca Raton Museum of Art was established in 1950 as the Art Guild of Boca Raton. The organization has grown to encompass an Art School, Guild, Store, and Museum with permanent collections of contemporary art, photography, non-western art, glass, and sculpture, as well as a diverse selection of special exhibitions. The museum is located at 501 Plaza Real, Boca Raton, Florida in Mizner Park. About The Boca Museum of Art features an assortment of traveling exhibitions and permanent collections from established and rising artists including works of art by a number of the great masters. It offers educational programs, artist lectures, films, classes for children, and events. The museums see more than 200,000 patrons annually, making it a major cultural institution in Boca Raton and the surrounding area. The museum promotes sketching in the galleries and even provides clipboards, sketchbooks, and pencils at the front desk. The Boca Raton Museum of Art is a Blue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
Purpose: Because living persons may suffer personal harm from inappropriate information, we should watch their articles carefully. By adding an article to this category, it marks them with a notice about sources whenever someone tries to edit them, to remind them of WP:BLP (biographies of living persons) policy that these articles must maintain a neutral point of view, maintain factual accuracy, and be properly sourced. Recent changes to these articles are listed on Special:RecentChangesLinked/Living people. Organization: This category should not be sub-categorized. Entries are generally sorted by family name In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give .... Maintenance: Individuals of advanced age (over 90), for whom there has been no new documentation in the last ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online news coverage. The service has over 5,500 journalists working across its output including in 50 foreign news bureaus where more than 250 foreign correspondents are stationed. Deborah Turness has been the CEO of news and current affairs since September 2022. In 2019, it was reported in an Ofcom report that the BBC spent £136m on news during the period April 2018 to March 2019. BBC News' domestic, global and online news divisions are housed within the largest live newsroom in Europe, in Broadcasting House in central London. Parliamentary coverage is produced and broadcast from studios in London. Through BBC English Regions, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LUMA Arles
Luma Arles is an arts center in Arles, France created by the LUMA Foundation headed by Swiss arts patron Maja Hoffmann. It encompasses several renovated former railroad factories and the LUMA Tower, a 15,000 square meter tower building designed by the Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry for the LUMA Foundation. For the building Gehry took some of his inspiration from the Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh hoping to catch the light Dutch artist sought in the South of France, specifically as in '' Starry Night'' which was painted in Arles in 1889. The skin of the building features 11,000 angled reflective stainless steel panels. The center was founded by Maja Hoffmann, who heads the foundation and collaborated with Gehrys on the tower's genesis. The building includes exhibition spaces, workshops, a library, an auditorium with 150 seats, and a café. The magazine Artnet reported that the total cost of the project is understood to be 150 million euros, but Maja Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Misha Kahn
Misha Kahn (born 1989) is an American designer and sculptor, known for assemblage. He incorporates refuse and found objects in his furniture and lighting designs. Kahn's style has been described as "disheveled, spontaneous maximalism". Career Kahn graduated from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) with a degree in furniture design in 2011. In 2012, he was a Fulbright Fellow at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Tel Aviv, Israel. He was a fellow in 2013 at the Creative Glass Center of America at WheatonArts in Millville, New Jersey. Kahn was featured in the Museum of Arts and Design's 2014 NYC Makers biennial. His first solo exhibition, ''Midden Heap'', was held at the Friedman Benda Gallery in 2016. He has since exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center, Dallas Museum of Art, and High Museum of Art. Kahn's work is in the collections of museums such as the Dallas Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Speed Museum of Art in Louisv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mickalene Thomas
Mickalene Thomas (born January 28, 1971) is a contemporary African-American visual artist best known as a painter of complex works using rhinestones, acrylic, and enamel."Mickalene Thomas" Artnet, Retrieved 2 December 2018. Thomas's collage work is inspired from popular art histories and movements, including Impressionism, Cubism, Dada, the , and selected works by the Afro-British painter Chris Ofili. Her work draws from Western art history, pop art, and visual culture to examine ideas around femininity, beauty, race, sexuality, and gender. Early life and edu ...
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Ena Swansea, Goyesque, 2010
Ena or ENA may refer to: Education * École nationale d'administration, French Grande école, for civil service * Education Networks of America, Internet service provider Government and politics * English National Association, a former political party * Ensame Nacionalista Astur, a defunct political party in Spain * Ethiopian News Agency, of the Government of Ethiopia * ''Étoile Nord-Africaine'' (The North African Star), a former Algerian nationalist organization People Given name or nickname * Ena von Baer (born 1974), Chilean journalist, political scientist and senator * Ena Baga (1906–2004), British pianist and theatre organist * Ena Begović (1960–2000), Croatian actress * Ena Sandra Causevic (born 1989), Danish model * Ena Cremona (1936–2024), Maltese judge at the European Union General Court * Ena de Silva (1922–2015), Sri Lankan artist * Ena Fitzgerald (1889-1962), English novelist, poet * Ena Fujita (born 1990), Japanese musician and model * Ena Greg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Maison Rouge
La Maison Rouge was a private contemporary art Foundation (nonprofit), Foundation dedicated mainly to showing private art collections, monographic shows of contemporary artists' work. It was located close to the Place de la Bastille, Bastille, in Paris, at 10 Boulevard de la Bastille in the 12th arrondissement of Paris. La Maison Rouge has been definitely closed in October 2018. History Created in 2004 by Contemporary Art Collector Antoine de Galbert, La maison rouge occupied an old factory building. The 2000-square-meter space was renovated by architect Jean-Yves Clément and the artist Jean-Michel Alberola. The Foundation offices were located at the center the building in what used to be an old red farmhouse (hence its name). La maison rouge had an adjacent bookstore run by Bookstorming and a branch of ''Rose Bakery'', an organic English style cafe, that renewed its entire decoration with each exhibition. Exhibitions 2004 * ''Central Station'' - The Harald Falckenberg Collectio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art – Das Kunstmagazin
''Art – Das Kunstmagazin'' is a monthly art magazine founded by Wolf Uecker and first published by Gruner + Jahr in 1979. Its original editor-in-chief, Axel Hecht, was replaced by Tim Sommer in 2005. The magazine features both new and established contemporary artists across all disciplines (including painting, sculpture, design, and video art) as well as reports on exhibitions and projects. In 2001, ''Art'' assimilated the Swiss monthly art magazine ''Artis – Zeitschrift für neue Kunst'' (), which had been published by Hallwag, Bern and Stuttgart-Ostfildern since 1950. References Further reading * External links * Publisher's profile {{DEFAULTSORT:Art Das Kunstmagazin Visual arts magazines published in Germany Monthly magazines published in Germany Gruner + Jahr Magazines published in Hamburg Magazines established in 1979 German-language magazines ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flash Art
''Flash Art'' is a contemporary art magazine, and an Italian and international publishing house. Originally published bilingually, both in Italian and in English, since 1978 is published in two separate editions, Flash Art Italia (Italian) and Flash Art International (English). Since September 2020, the magazine is seasonal, and said editions are published four times a year. ''Flash Art'' extensively covered the Arte Povera artists in the 1960s, before they became known in the English-speaking world. It is especially known for featuring Andy Warhol's final interview before his death in 1987. It also publishes ''Flash Art Czech & Slovak Edition'' and ''Flash Art Hungary''. History The first issue of ''Flash Art International'' featured the seminal text "The Italian Transavantgarde" by Achille Bonito Oliva, whose ‘Ideology of the Traitor’ introduces the art of Enzo Cucchi, Francesco Clemente, Sandro Chia, Mimmo Paladino, among others. In the November 1967 issue, "pri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Brooklyn Rail
''The Brooklyn Rail'' is an American publication and platform for the arts, culture, humanities, and politics, based in Brooklyn, New York. It features in-depth critical essays, fiction, poetry, as well as interviews with artists, critics, and curators, and reviews of art, music, dance, film, books, and theater. The ''Rail's'' print publication is published ten times a year and distributed to universities, galleries, museums, bookstores, and other organizations around the world free of charge. The ''Rail'' operates a small press called Rail Editions, which publishes literary translations, poetry, and art criticism. In addition to the small press, the ''Rail'' has also organized panel discussions, readings, film screenings, music and dance performances, and has curated exhibitions through a program called Rail Curatorial Projects. Notable among these exhibitions is "Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale that Society Has the Capacity to Destroy: Mare Nostrum" co-curated by Fran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
