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Cultural festivals for the soul: 2024 events that celebrate art, design, and creativity

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Singapore Art Week – Singapore, 19-28 January If you've never experienced the small but perfectly formed Asian city-state of Singapore, here's the perfect opportunity. April Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival – USA, 12-14 and 19-21 April Coachella is one of America's closest equivalents to Glastonbury in the UK. Madinat Jumeirah.

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Spinning a yarn: how Icelandic artist Ýrúrarí turns textiles into stunning works of art

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This project evolved into 'visible mending' workshops in her open studio at the The Museum of Design and Applied Arts in 2021. The workshop, in which participants personalise items of clothing and play creatively with mending techniques on their own knits, has now travelled to several European cities.

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Bauhaus Graphic Design: Past, Present, and Future

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He aimed to start a new movement in the visual arts that rejected the excessive historicism and ornamentation that defined late 19th-century design in favour of a modern , industrial aesthetic. Merging Fine Arts With Crafts Gropius wanted to return to the medieval roots of the word “Bauhaus,” which translates to “building house.”

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October 2022 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

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One photographer will receive a €50,000 grant to produce a body of work, followed by a traveling exhibition and a monograph. apexart is accepting exhibition proposals for its open call. Five curators, artists, writers, and others will be awarded $10,000 and a chance to curate an exhibition at the New York City space.

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July 2023 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

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1708 Gallery’s InLight 2023 Call for Proposals (International) For this year’s exhibition, 1708 invites regional, national, and international artists working in all media and disciplines to submit entries that engage with and respond to Reflection and Refraction for the InLIght festival. Deadline: July 4, 2023. Commentator?

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The role of Aberdeen People’s Press in late 20th century activism

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All images courtesy University of Aberdeen A new exhibition, Another World is Possible: Aberdeen People’s Press and radical media in the 1970s, is giving insight into the legacy of APP and revising its place in the history of activist media in Scotland and the UK more widely.

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Five Artists to Meet at The Other Art Fair’s Upcoming Brooklyn Edition

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The November edition ignites with additions like an exclusive exhibition of paintings by Guest Artist Danny Cole, complimentary personalized haikus (exclusive to Thursday’s Opening Night!), Works in her recent solo exhibition, WRETCHED , combine traditional printmaking with mystical aesthetics from the late 1800s.

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