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DRAWING ROOM - A NEW GALLERY FOR LONDON OPENS IN SEPTEMBER
After 20 nomadic years, Drawing Room, the UK’s leading arts organisation dedicated to displaying, making and sharing contemporary drawing, will settle in its new purpose-built home in Bermondsey, southeast London, opening to the public on 22 September 2023. Drawing Room is a division of studio provider Tannery Arts, which was established by artists in a Bermondsey Street warehouse in 1993. Putting down roots in an area traditionally occupied by artists, Drawing Room is the only UK art gallery dedicated solely to the medium of drawing. With over 1,600 sq ft of double-height gallery spaces...
Alison Wright
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ASTON MARTIN RESIDENCES ART GALLERY PRESENTS LOUIS CARREON
The Aston Martin Residences Art Gallery has selected “Ryzantine Artist” Louis Carreon as the new exhibitor for its Virtual Art Gallery exhibition series.   Californian-born Carreon follows in the footsteps of Julian Lennon, Aaron Schwartz, Fabio Mesa, Robi Walters, Michele Utley Voigt and Rafael Delceggio, all of whom have displayed their unique artwork in the Aston Martin Residences Virtual Art Gallery.  Carreon’s exclusive exhibition, entitled “An Addicts Halo,” will be featured for two months as a three-dimensional immersive experience, replicating the residence’s physical...
Rudy Geneva
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LOOP printmakers share their secrets
LOOP PRINTMAKERS SHARE THEIR SECRETS In September, thirty LOOP artists will be exhibiting together at the Bankside Gallery in London. This group pushes the boundaries of printmaking every year by exhibiting new work, very much in the spirit of sharing and spreading explorations of techniques and ideas. This year’s exhibition will include approaches which combine digital processes with collage, which manipulate the surface to become 3D, and which ink up the body to impress onto the printing plate. Experienced LOOP artists draw on their expertise in print processes but are continuing to...
Janet Sang
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CHAMPIONS: an immersive boxing art experience; T.K.O.O. launch endorsed by the World Boxing Council and WBC Cares, July 8, New York
The fine art and boxing worlds are merging to create CHAMPIONS, a fundraiser exhibition at gleason's gym in brooklyn, New York to support retired boxers. brought to you by T.K.O.O x OCLESSE, in association with the world boxing council, Jose Sulaiman Charity Boxer’s Fund and WBC Cares. The event will take place July 8th, from 5-6pm (media only), 6-10pm (guest list) Gleason’s Gym: 130 Water Street, Brooklyn, NY. Calling boxing professionals and enthusiasts, art industry experts and collectors to join us at Gleason’s Gym with Legendary Champions on July 8th from 5-6pm for the media, 6-10...
Anastasiia
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The environmentally-centered Artwork ‘Saharan Sands’ (2022) by Contemporary Artist and Activist Natalia Kapchuk sells for £27,940 at the remarkable Phillips Auction
During the Wired online auction held by Phillips Auction House from May 18th to 24th, 2023, a curated selection of exceptional contemporary artworks by established and emerging artists captivated audiences. London-based artist and environmentalist Natalia Kapchuk has gained global acclaim for her contemporary mixed-media creations, coveted by collectors worldwide. Her artworks have also been featured in charitable auctions supporting environmental and humanitarian causes, leading to the inclusion of her piece 'Saharan Sands' (2022) from The Lost Planet series in this exclusive event....
FPRBuro Communications Agency
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Bitget Celebrates Messi’s Birthday with Graffiti Wall in His Hometown
Bitget, top crypto derivatives and copy trading platform, is honoring its official partner and soccer legend Lionel Messi's birthday on June 24 in a unique and artistic manner. As a gesture of appreciation, Bitget has commissioned a graffiti wall featuring portraits of Messi in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This special gift is a testament to the platform’s exclusive partnership with Messi, aimed at promoting the mainstream adoption of cryptocurrencies. Bitget and Messi embody shared attributes of perseverance, continuous improvement, and resilience when confronted with challenges....
Єлизавета Копань
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London’s Artesc Gallery Robbed: Do Thieves Appreciate Art More Than Critics?
A group of unidentified men robbed London's Artesc Art Center & Creative Space, located at 103 King's Cross Road, on the night of Monday, June 5. Between 10 PM and 3:30 PM the next day, the suspects broke into one of the halls and fled the gallery in a getaway vehicle with seven pieces of artwork from local creators and on-site equipment. The stolen items are valued at over £10,000.  London is the heart of the UK's 21% share of the $56 billion global art market. As a result, the city has a reputation for art theft owing to its strong gallery scene, light funding of Scotland Yard's...
Anastasiia
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Newly released book by Rebecca Gabriel:APPEARANCES-EXPERIMENTAL PORTRAITURE
GOLD LIST AWARD artist, Rebecca Gabriel's, new book APPEARANCES - EXPERIMENTAL PORTRAITURE, is newly released by Wellstone Press. Art critic John Seed, author of DISRUPTED REALISM writes, "In Gabriel’s sensibility, there is always more going on than the eyes can see. Finding ways to try and express the mysteries of others through portraiture has taken Rebecca Gabriel towards her own imaginative core. Her journey has been very rich indeed as she has inched closer and closer to things that will never be understood."  Dafna Narrow, CEO of ART MARKET MAGAZINE writes,"Gabriel's work...
Rebecca Gabriel
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STUDIO PORTRAITS
Dorich House Museum presents a selection of portraits of sculptors in their studios by photographer Anne-Katrin Purkiss. She has a longstanding interest in documenting people in the context of their working environments and occupations and is especially drawn to spaces created and inhabited by artists. Further examples of her work can be seen in a digital display in the Plaster Studio Café on the ground floor.  Viewed within the setting of the sculptor Dora Gordine’s former studio-home, these portraits of women sculptors today ask us to consider their creative environments and what...
Anne-Katrin Purkiss
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WOOD - SAND - STONE
The painter John Hitchens has followed in the footsteps of his father (Ivon) and grandfather (Alfred). Both were distinguished painters working in the local Sussex landscape. John Hitchens’ works are likewise heavily influenced by the South Downs area where he grew up and where his studio is based. His paintings are concerned with the textures, colours and patterns he sees in the surrounding landscape. During the past decades, he has developed a more abstract style to reflect this, often using the natural materials found in the landscape, such as wood, sand and stone. This recent work...
Anne-Katrin Purkiss
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LOAN OF TWO MAJOR MASTERPIECES FROM THE STEINITZ GALLERY TO THE SARAH BERNHARDT EXHIBITION AT THE PETIT PALAIS IN PARIS
The exhibition "Sarah Bernhardt. And the woman created the star" will be held at the Petit Palais from 14th April to 27th August 2023, paying tribute to this extraordinary woman who was free-spirited, engaged, and passionate, and became a legend even during her lifetime. The Steinitz Gallery, which owns important pieces from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries signed by great figures of decorative arts, is pleased to contribute to this exhibition by loaning two objects: The Grand Mirror, designed by Édouard Lièvre, adorned in its center with the initials SB and the motto "Quand même" (...
Ula Paket
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Animalia: The Warm and Furry Side of Art
By J. Scott Orr Artists and animals have a long and lovesome past, with some of history's greatest artists sharing their lives with pets of every stripe. From Andy Warhol’s dachshund, to Frida Kahlo’s monkeys to Salvadore Dali’s ocelot, behind many of art’s greatest humans were non-human intimates. Now, an East Village art gallery is hoping to build on that transition through its new exhibition Animalia, a group art show that explores the adamantine bonds between humans and their non-human companions.  Through history, animals have been friends, inspirations, emotional-support-...
B Scene Zine
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