Press Releases by Category Arts & Culture
Classic Phone Box Gets Creative Twist
This summer BT launches ‘BT ArtBox’ in support of ChildLine, a public art exhibition that will see Britain’s iconic red phone box transformed by some of the world’s most creative talent. Amongst the participants is experimental artist, Denis Masi, who, in collaboration with signage and display specialist Creative FX, has transformed a classic K6 telephone kiosk into a graphic work of art.
Denis Masi is one of 80 famous faces and…
›Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition Hannover 2012‹ is presented in …
On Thursday, June 7, 2012, saw the first presentation in Berlin of the ›Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition
Hannover 2012‹, a development that serves to underline the Competition’s national and international significance. In the 21 years of its existence the Competition has come to occupy a firm place in the international music scene, and is unique in Germany. Among those present were Joachim Werren, Secretary General of the Stiftung Niedersachsen (the…
Popular international tenor Stephen Lloyd-Morgan releases album to aid Spanish a …
Popular international tenor Stephen Lloyd-Morgan releases album to aid Spanish and Welsh cancer charities
Tenor Stephen Lloyd-Morgan’s new album 'In My Father’s Footsteps' is to be released on 1st July.
The album is dedicated in memory of his Dad Bryant, who passed away 18 months ago having been diagnosed with cancer only 5 week’s previously, and its primary purpose is to aid The Cudeca Hospice in Spain www.cudeca.org and Welsh cancer…
Mary Karlton Among Top Five Winning Artists for Figurative Art Exhibition at Lig …
California artist Mary Karlton's painting "Anima" was among the top five winning paintings (out of more than 700 entries) chosen by Light Space & Time Online Gallery for its current Figurative Exhibition.
Jupiter, Florida - June 9, 2012 -- Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is pleased to announce that its June 2012 juried art exhibition is now posted, online and ready to view on their website. The theme for…
“Oh, Beautiful” Wins IndieReader Discovery Award for American Studies
At the first annual IndieReader Discovery Awards, announced this week at the BookExpo America trade show in New York City, the award in the category of American Studies went to Oh, Beautiful: An American Family in the 20th Century by John Paul Godges.
Judges for the awards included publishers, agents, publicists, reviewers, authors, bloggers, and producers. Nina Sankovitch, author of Tolstoy and the Purple Chair, a memoir of reading a book…
J. Solà Puig: Poetic Landscapes at Agora Gallery
Influenced by artistic traditions such as Baroque and Impressionism, Spanish artist J. Solà Puig breathes exotically fascinating freshness into the oil painting medium. Richly thick planes of color are confronted with deftly articulated shapes, abstracting familiar yet fanciful landscapes with a subtle flourish. Fiery sensations of blazing light are palpable in Puig’s painting, evoking sublime passion in each of his smoothly tactile brushstrokes. Interested in the relationship between meaning and…
Grace Arledge’s Art Conveys Joy, Humor, Nature, Beauty, and a Glimpse of the Sou …
Grace Arledge is an interpretive realist who works with recognizable subjects and a wide variety of media. She approaches each piece with a fresh eye, unafraid to use new techniques if that is what fits the subject best. Arledge employs a method of expressionism that stays true to her subject while still leaving room for artistic interpretation. "I use representational art so that the subject is 'in your face,'" she…
Initial Exhibitor Roster Announced For The Ellis Boston Antiques Show Slated For …
Having relaunched The Ellis Boston Antiques Show in 2011, the show's producers, Tony Fusco and Robert Four, are pleased to announce the second annual show will take place on October 18-21, 2012 at The Cyclorama at the Boston Center for The Arts. The show will feature 40 exhibitors of the highest quality, drawn from both past Ellis exhibitors as well as many new additions. The show opens…
Johansson Projects presents Vampires & Wolf Men featuring Anna Fidler
Age-old folklore renders a vampire's reflection invisible. Anna Fidler suggests that when a post-internet vampire faces the mirror, its simulacrum glitches like a psychedelic computer virus. The exhibition "Vampires and Wolf Men" combines Fidler's traditional taste for exploring supernatural energies with a vampire's taste for blood. She revamps portraits of suspicious looking individuals from the 19th and early 20th centuries, giving them the electric glow of one who has stolen…
“Titans of the Sea” Extended at International Poster Gallery
BOSTON, MA - International Poster Gallery (IPG) announces that by popular demand, “Titans of the Sea: Posters from the Golden Age of Ocean Liners” will remain on display through July 1, 2012. The show, which has drawn visitors in person and online from around the world, features a stunning selection of the greatest vintage ocean liner posters. The extended show has been enhanced with a number of new additions,…
The Figurative Art Exhibition Winning Artists Announced
Jupiter, Florida - June 2, 2012 -- Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is pleased to announce that its June 2012 art exhibition is now posted on their website and is ready to view online. The theme for this art exhibition is “Figurative” and artists were asked for their interpretation of this theme by depicting the human form or human features. “Figurative” was considered to be figures, forms and…
Agasthiyar Nadi Astrology
The Agasthiyar Nadi Astrology is a form of Hindu astrology practiced in Tamil Nadu. The Agasthiyar Nadi Astrology is based on the belief that the past, present and the future lives of all humans were foreseen by Hindu sages in ancient times.
They were written by a Tamil sage called Agathiyar who is said to have had divine revelations. Naadi in Tamil means “in search of”. As one individual goes in…
JAM Publishing Ltd publishes Jade Jaeger's "All That Shimmers"
JAM Publishing Ltd. brings to market first eBook “All That Shimmers” by Jade Jaeger. The book was originally published in 2009 by publishing house Macmillan Australia not without an avalanche of controversy as the book held nothing back about the sequence of events and the people involved including socialite Amber Petty. Jade Jaeger has since then assigned JAM Language Ltd the rights to publish the…
Art Place Seoul shows Exhibition “TinTones – Rough Print” by American Photograph …
New York, Paris, Los Angeles, Hamburg, Munich and Berlin are the most important stations of Russ's creative input. More than four decades of photography and film are the basis for the multi-faceted mastery of his art. Club MOW Art-Gallery, Seoul, June 1st - July 31st, 2012.
Michael A. Russ's pictures reveal the sensuality and aestheticism of the female body. They reflect a spectacular experimental power, incorporating various photographic techniques, like layering,…
Michel Montecrossa's 'Michel & Bob Dylan Fest 2012' merges with Spirit of Woodst …
The work of Bob Dylan, who received on May 29, 2012 the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama, will, on July 30th, be part of the Spirit of Woodstock Festival 2012 in Mirapuri, Italy with the 'Michel & Bob Dylan Fest 2012' of Michel Montecrossa and his band The Chosen Few. The Spirit of Woodstock Festival takes place from 27.7.2012 – 5.8.2012 presenting twenty Love & Unity Concerts…
Timeframehd’s Creative Director Richard Kirby Received IWFF Award
Richard Kirby received an Honorable Mention Award for Cinematography at International Wildlife Film Festival in Missoula, Montana.
Renown wildlife and time-lapse photographer Richard Kirby, Creative Director of Timeframehd time-lapse footage library, received an Honorable Mention Award for “Cinematography” at this year’s International Wildlife Film Festival in Missoula, Montana. The award was presented for Kirby’s work on “Sahara”, one of the thirteen episodes of the Discovery channel series “Wildest Africa”.
Richard…
Stefan Szczesny: Major exhibition in Frankfurt am Main, Summer 2012
A major exhibition of Stefan Szczesny’s artworks will open on June 28, 2012, in Frankfurt’s Palmengarten. The exhibition will feature about 70 sculptures, in particular the artist’s black-steel “shadow sculptures”, but also paintings and ceramics. The exhibition’s epicentre is the Palmengarten, but artworks will be on display in other locations as well.
Born in Munich in 1951, Stefan Szczesny is among the protagonists of the ‘Junge Wilde’ movement which emerged…
Nature photos in XXL format
Neschen sponsers nature photography festival "horizonte Zingst" 2012
Bückeburg, 24 May 2012 - From May to June 2012, the nature photography festival "horizonte Zingst" is showing large-format digital prints directly by the sea. The organisers are mounting an outdoor exhibition of photographs by Dresden artist Betty Schöner, who has put together a series of macro images of marine animals entitled "Seamore". In actual fact, these are XXL portraits of the…
Michel Montecrossa's concert series at the Spirit of Woodstock Festival 2011 rel …
The ‘Future World & Climate Change’ concert series at the Spirit of Woodstock Festival 2011 in Mirapuri, Italy, released by Mira Sound Germany as two Boxes-Set with twelve Audio-CDs or DVDs featuring all 163 festival songs of Michel Montecrossa and his band ladies Mirakali and Diana Antara.
The two Boxes-Set presents a stunning variety of original music ranging from acoustic and electric New Topical Songs to mind-blowing Cyberrock and Dancedrive with…
Julie Bowland Solo Art Show Opening May 26th At The Buchanan Museum Of Fine Art
The Buchanan Museum of Fine Art is pleased to announce its May 26th, 2012 exhibition opening featuring Plein Air Expressionist works by Julie Bowland, who also holds positions of Gallery Director and Assistant Professor in the Department of Art at Valdosta State University. Before moving to Valdosta, Ms. Bowland lived in North Florida for almost 20 years, teaching Art at Florida State University and Tallahassee Community College, and for…
The Abdication - A True Ero(t)icomic Epic
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With the appearance of his first novel, *The Acolytes,* early readers professed that Hanshe gave promise of becoming a truly important writer. With his second, *The Abdication,* Keith Ansell-Pearson attests that “Hanshe reinforces his growing reputation as one of today's most original and thought-provoking novelists."
Spring 2032: an enigmatic bandleader named Triboulet arrives by helicopter in Rome, where his carnivalesque troupe…
Nature photos in XXL format
Neschen sponsers nature photography festival "horizonte Zingst" 2012
Bückeburg, 22 May 2012 - From May to June 2012, the nature photography festival "horizonte Zingst" is showing large-format digital prints directly by the sea. The organisers are mounting an outdoor exhibition of photographs by Dresden artist Betty Schöner, who has put together a series of macro images of marine animals entitled "Seamore". In actual fact, these are XXL portraits of the…
The Nancy Ferrari Show Features Elle Febbo
The Nancy Ferrari Show, on KNOC 1680 AM Radio features Elle Febbo, a former Orangewood Children's Home resident turned best-selling author.
Granada Hills, CA. (May 21, 2012) - Former Orangewood Children's Home resident turned best-selling author, Elle Febbo joins Nancy Ferrari to talk a little about the journey through foster care, and a lot about how the life they live today, can heal their yesterday. The Nancy Ferrari Show, airs every…
A Newly Redesigned MilitaryPlaques.Com Website Launched
South Bend, Indiana (May, 2012) – MilitaryPlaques.Com launches newly revamped website that features a compact look and sleeker navigation buttons for better browsing experience. The improved web structure will increase the site’s clarity and browsing efficiency using a streamlined design and intuitive navigation.
The contemporary layout promotes better readability and smoother navigation that will benefit site visitors and existing clients. Notable features include updated social media buttons, improved main menu, and…
Sweet Soul Records Reaches Japan Music Distribution Agreement with Arizona-based …
An exclusive license agreement has been reached between SWEET SOUL RECORDS and Forward Motion Concepts, representing music producer Paris Toon and soul band Mothers Favorite Child, allowing Japan distribution of their latest album “Baptism By Fire” in both physical and digital formats.
Tokyo, Japan: Today, SWEET SOUL RECORDS, parent company lifesound, Inc., officially announced that an agreement has been reached with Forward Motion Concepts for nationwide distribution of the album…
Special exhibition "Frida Kahlo: Beautiful Minds" in Kunstmuseum Gehrke-Remund
Starting on May 21st 2012 in the rooms adjacent to the Kunstmuseum Gehrke-Remund in Baden-Baden, sixteen artists from Luxembourg expose fifty-nine paintings inspired by Frida Kahlo life and work.
The works are painted by patients with mental illnesses (schizophrenia, psychosis).
Schizophrenic artists stand out in the course of art history; the high intelligence and creativity that are often associated with mental disorders result in unique works of art. …
University of Chicago Department of Music Performs Debussy’s "Fêtes" and "La Mer …
Chicago, IL -- The University of Chicago Department of Music concludes another glorious season on Saturday, May 26 at 8:00 pm and Sunday, May 27 at 3:00 pm in Mandel Hall, located at 1131 E. 57th Street in Hyde Park. This year the University Symphony Orchestra, University Chorus, Motet Choir, and Rockefeller Chapel Choir present Francis Poulenc’s celebrated Gloria, a grandiose setting of the Roman Catholic Gloria in excelsis Deo…
OnCell Release Official Android App
OnCell, a leading mobile technology service provider to cultural sites and institutions, recently launched its free OnCell App for Android mobile phones and tablets. The app allows users to experience hundreds of multimedia tours when visiting museums, zoos, gardens, historic sites and parks around the country. The tours can also be taken “virtually” from any location. OnCell’s interactive mobile tours feature audio, images, video and social media network sharing.
"At…
The Pefection of Colors and Forms in Tanya Marie Reeves' Art at Agora Gallery
Tanya Marie Reeves' acrylic paintings utilize geometric forms and striking color combinations to create vivid and kaleidoscopic imagery. Often chimerical, her abstractions conceal naturalistic forms such as a flower blossom, a human hand, or most notably, the female form. Her meticulous technique results in strict yet fluid lines that draw viewers’ eyes across the canvas, enticing them to enter the unique world conjured by Tanya’s paintbrush. A self-taught artist, Tanya's…
Nicolette Benjamin Black: Intricate Renderings of Our Natural World
Australian artist Nicolette Benjamin Black uses little strokes of pen and ink on canvas to create compelling works with a weighty message. For the artist, the patterns, swirls and dots within her drawings are an ancient cross-cultural activity able to speak to a diversity of cultures. In fact, much of Black’s influence comes from her Australian roots, both “the indigenous artists and their techniques and connectedness to their land, and…
Natasha Parenta’s Original Artwork Explores the Universal Spirit
Abandoning any trace of realism or representation in favor of beautiful, profound abstractions, Natasha Parenta’s fluidly stylistic approach to abstract symbolism is deeply rooted in both her personal identity as an artist and in a powerful bond with the spirituality of nature. An emotional energy surges through her art, with a passion and spontaneity that touches upon a transcendent universal connection and awareness. As Parenta creates her mixed media paintings…
New Location for Fine Art on the Rhine - Ketterer conquers Düsseldorf
Munich, 15 May, 2012, (kk) – Ketterer Kunst will open its new representative office in Düsseldorf on May 23 with highlights of the June auction. Among them will be works by renowned artists such as Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Gabriele Münter, Emil Nolde, Serge Poliakoff, Pierre Soulages and Andy Warhol.
”It's been a long lasting concern of mine to offer our clients in the Rhineland a more personal service”, said…
Michel Montecrossa's CD about Michael Moore reacts to music industry’s buy-out o …
‘Michael Moore Is A Rich Man – Laugh Out Loud (Song For The Day Without The 99%)’, released by Mira Sound Germany on Audio Single and DVD, is Michel Montecrossa’s New-Topical-Evolver-Song about the music industry’s buy-out of the Occupy Movement through things like ‘Occupy This Album’ and stuff. The music video is available on the Michel Montecrossa Homepage and the song can be downloaded from Bandcamp.
Michel Montecrossa says about ‘Michael…
Pianist Okonsar Improvises On Cd
"I initiated playing them with no pre-conceived representation in mind" states Mehmet Okonsar, the Turkish born Belgian pianist, composer, conductor and musicologist when referring to the "Shadowy Arcade". He let the music come in effortlessly and captured all. Then, Okonsar disposed off a lot of the takes and without any extra modifying, saved the ones he liked to get published.
The lengthy as well as complicated headings of the pieces were…
Paul Fraser Launches Online Auction Firm With May 24 Collectibles Sale
GUERNSEY, Channel Islands – Britain’s Paul Fraser has built a stellar international reputation from the sale of blue-chip collectibles, rare stamps, antiques and pop-culture memorabilia. His insightful, always entertaining newsletters are read religiously by investors and often quoted by the media in their quirky “we leave you with this” stories on TV or in print. Now Paul Fraser has stepped into the auction arena with the launch of PFC Auctions,…
Special Exhibition "Frida Kahlo: Beautiful Minds" in Kunstmuseum Gehrke-Remund
Starting on May 12 2012 in the rooms adjacent to the Kunstmuseum Gehrke-Remund in Baden-Baden, sixteen artists from Luxembourg expose fifty-nine paintings inspired by Frida Kahlo life and work.
The works are painted by patients with mental illnesses (schizophrenia, psychosis).
Schizophrenic artists stand out in the course of art history; the high intelligence and creativity that are often associated with mental disorders result in unique works of art.
The exhibition shows extraordinarily…
Art Exhibition Hamburg Art Week 2012 presents George Lilanga: Inside…Africa…Outs …
George Lilanga (1934 – 2005) was born in the Makonde area of Northern Mozambique. In the beginning of the 1970s he came to Dar es Salaam/Tanzania where her started his artist career at Nyumba ya Sanaa (House of Art) founded by the Maryknoll sister Jean Pruitt. In the following over 30 years he became one of the most important contemporary African artists. His works are established in the spirit world…
TASTE NIRVANA DEBUTS CANNED REAL COCO ALOE BEVERAGE IN RALPH’S
LOS ANGELES (May 9, 2012) – Beginning May 9th, all California and Las Vegas Ralph’s locations will be promoting Taste Nirvana’s latest all-natural refreshment, Real Coco Aloe in the long-awaited 16.2 oz. can size. Amidst an overwhelming amount of coconut waters on the market today, Taste Nirvana’s authentic taste and all-natural ingredients set it apart from the rest, and with a splash of Aloe and no added sugars in this…
Gabriela Jolowicz - The Monkey on My Back
Galerie Emmanuel Post is pleased to announce the second solo exhibition 'The Monkey on My Back' of work by the artist Gabriela Jolowicz of recent mid- and large-format woodcuts.
Gabriela Jolowicz captures ephemeral sceneries of everyday life in one of the oldest and most traditional visual media, the woodcut. Still life images with laptop or Ipod add to the more prominently featured dense genre-like sceneries of metropolitan life and interiors such…
The Boston Center for Adult Education Offers Exclusive Look Inside The Boston Op …
WHAT: The Boston Center for Adult Education (BCAE) is continuing its popular “Behind the Curtain” series with an exclusive look into The Boston Opera House and the award-winning musical MAMMA MIA! The series, which has already gone inside the Boston Ballet’s performance of Romeo and Juliet and the Boston Opera House’s production of South Pacific, is aimed at showing students Boston’s historic theaters and revealing what happens behind the scenes…
Lee, Deodato Jr., Pérez, Capullo Among 250+ Talented Creators At Wizard World Ph …
Whether it's “The Avengers,” “Superman,” “Spider-Man,” zombies, vampires or just about any character ever, more than 250 talented creators at Artist Alley at 2012 Wizard World Philadelphia Comic Con have probably drawn them. Fans can meet superstars like Stan Lee, Mike Deodato Jr., George Pérez, Greg Capullo, Harvey Tolibao, Phil Foglio, Carlo Pagulayan, Yanick Paquette, Greg Horn, Arthur Suydam, Michael Golden and dozens of others at the event, set…
Green Light Booking Announces Exclusive Party Crashers Alliance
Salt Lake City, Utah - May 7, 2012 - Green Light Booking is a Utah-based entertainment booking service that delivers exceptional party bands, musicians, singers, world champion dancers, comedians, in addition to other types of entertainment for special functions throughout the world. As the exclusive booking agency to a few of the most amazing performing artists in the country, Green Light Booking offers exceptional entertainers that are not offered somewhere…
Las Paellas in Cheste
Paella-Competition including a free spanish lesson in Cheste
The language students of Valencia attend a Paella-Festival
Valencia. Past saturday spanish language students from Valencia and other Paella-Lovers swarmed out to the little village called Cheste for actively participating on the Paella-Competition or just to enjoy spains culinary showpiece in circles of families and friends.
Everybody can participate on the Paella-Competition which takes place…
Photo Contest winners announced by Asian stock photography site, Photokore
Winners of the ‘Asian Flavors’ photo contest hosted by Asia-based microstock photography company, Photokore, were announced today on www.photokore.com .
“We were delighted with the response to the contest, but it was the quality of submissions that really made this contest stand out,” said Sean Mooney, President and CEO of Photokore. “As this year’s contest winners were all determined by the votes of Photokore members, it was also fascinating to…
Free Speech Film Festival Announces 2012 Free Speech Awards
Quick info
Who: American Insight
What: Free Speech Film Festival
Where: American Philosophical Society
When: Wednesday, May 16, 2012
For Tickets: FreeSpeechFilmFestival.org
Philadelphia, PA – American INSIGHT's first annual Free Speech Film Festival on Wednesday, May 16, 2012, will take place in the Benjamin Franklin Hall of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, PA. Creative filmmakers from 16 nations around the world entered their work as a response to the subject of Free Speech. The…
pre-Beatles THE QUARRYMEN released their GREY ALBUM
The Quarrymen, the band from which the Beatles evolved, have released their "Grey Album". It can be purchased (as mp3) from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk (England), Amazon.de (Germany), Amazon.jp (Japan) and iTunes.
On the Grey Album the original Quarrymen (Len Garry, Rod Davis, Colin Hanton, John Lowe) are playing, singing and talking. As a special addition it includes Beatles-related quests like May Pang ("Lost Weekend"). Pang was, of course, featured on John Lennon´s…
Lion Brand Yarn Supports the Yarnbombing of the Philadelphia Museum of Art to Ce …
New York, NY – May 3, 2012. Lion Brand Yarn Company is the yarn sponsor for the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s new exhibit, “Craft Spoken Here”. This is the museum’s first special exhibition dedicated to crafting. Today, Jessie Hemmons, a Philadelphia fiber artist known as the Philadelphia Yarn bomber, will “yarnbomb” the façade of the museum’s Perelman building using two of Lion Brand Yarn Company’s most popular yarns in…
University of Chicago Performs Midwest Premiere of Andrea Clearfield’s Lung-Ta, …
University of Chicago New Music Ensemble will present a distinctive, multi-media performance of Andrea Clearfield’s Lung-Ta (“The Wind Horse”) on Saturday, May 5 at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel. Under the direction of Barbara Schubert, the event will celebrate Tibetan ritual music, iconography, and dance. Composer and artist Maureen Drdak and the Group Motion Dance Company of Philadelphia will visually enhance Clearfield’s musical work.
Scored for medium chamber ensemble, Clearfield’s “Lung-Ta” also…
Julia Mangold: Solo Exhibition at Bartha Contemporary London
Bartha Contemporary is delighted to announce Julia Mangold’s (GERMAN, B. 1966) forthcoming solo exhibition, showcasing new sculptures and works on paper. Please join us for the private view on Thursday May 24, 6.30 – 8.30 PM, Exhibition: May 25 – June 30.
The artist first London solo exhibition since her 2004 show will take on an all-encompassing architectural character. Three spectacular tall sculptures, liberated from all allegorical meaning, will occupy…
Peter Greenaways "Atomic Bombs on the Planet Earth" nominated for "Yellow Oscar"
8 Nominees selected for Rio de Janeiro Uranium Film Festival Awards 2012
Rio de Janeiro, RJ, (May, 02, 2012) – The 2nd International Uranium Film Festival of Rio de Janeiro has nominated eight films representing eight countries for its Award, the Yellow Oscar, in three categories: Best Short, Best Feature and Best Animation. The Festival starts 6 days after the next Earth Summit (Rio plus 20) in the Cinema of…
