Her brief: criss-cross the United Kingdom and make a politically and geographically-balanced piece of art about its general election campaign. English photographer Joanne Coates has spent the last few weeks tailing politicians out canvassing, observing rallies, stump speeches and hustings, and chatting to community groups and voters on streets. As well as collecting video clips […]
A rental property secretly transformed by the eccentric artist who lived there for three decades has been officially protected by the British government, five years after his death. Shortly after Ron Gittins died in September 2019 at age 79, his family visited the apartment where he had lived since the mid-1980s in Birkenhead, just outside […]
Markus Hinterhäuser has been given a third five-year term as artistic director of the Salzburg Festival, extending his tenure in one of Europe’s most influential cultural roles to the longest since Herbert von Karajan‘s reign from 1956-89. The festival said Thursday that its board of directors agreed to a contract through 2031 with a provision […]
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) – Local leather artisan Rafael Batrez has been honing his craft for nearly five years and is now incorporating it into his art shop where he offers people the opportunity to learn the basic principles of leatherwork. “My journey as a leather artisan began four to five years ago. I was […]
Pakistan is a dumping ground for post-consumer textile waste. In 2021, the European Union exported $46 million of used clothing to the country, according to the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics. But, Pakistan has “huge potential” to recycle these used textiles. More from Sourcing Journal Textile waste management firm Reverse Resources and Pakistan’s National Textile University have joined forces on […]
As an artist working across media, I’ve used everything from thread to my voice to poetically translate and express information. Recently, I’ve been working with another medium – geologic datasets. While scientists use data visualization to show the results of a dataset in interesting and informative ways, my goal as an artist is a little […]
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – Hershey has been sued by a Florida woman who said its holiday-themed Reese’s peanut butter candies lack the artistic details shown on the packaging that make them worth buying. In a proposed federal class action filed on Thursday and seeking at least $5 million, Cynthia Kelly accused Hershey of deceiving […]