• Mendive’s retrospective exhibition at Cuba’s Museum of Fine Arts

    Havana, May 18 (Prensa Latina) With the opening of the retrospective exhibition “Mendive. Pan con guayaba, una vida feliz” (Mendive. Bread and Guava, a Happy Life) on Friday, by Cuban visual artist Manuel Mendive, the Havana-based Museum of Fine Arts has joined the tribute to the National Plastic Art Award winner on his 80th birthday. The post Mendive’s retrospective exhibition at Cuba’s Museum of Fine Arts first appeared on Prensa Latina.

  • Court freezes water cutoff by Pangilinan group in Cagayan de Oro for 3 days

    The bulk water supplier points out that it cannot disconnect what has already been disconnected

  • LWUA probes Cagayan de Oro water firm as consumers’ group calls for audit

    The Cagayan de Oro Water District is given until May 10 to submit its documents after a consumers' group filed a petition for a 'complete audit'

  • The Met’s Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion exhibition reminds us fashion is living art

    To step inside The Costume Institute’s new spring exhibition is to step inside a garment, becoming not just its wearer but a component of its overall makeup, Kaleigh Werner writes. Being a passive observer in ‘Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion’ is not an option

  • Editor’s Pick: WashTimes Showcases Report on How Few of Today’s Immigrants Work

    In a front-page story for Tuesday’s print edition and published Monday online, The Washington Times’s intrepid reporter Stephen Dinan shared the findings of a new Center for Immigration Studies report that said only 46 percent of recent immigrant arrivals — both illegal and legal — are holding down jobs and contributing to the American economy. “The Center for Immigration Studies, using Census Bureau numbers, calculates that 46% of immigrants who arrived over the past two years are employed....

  • Editor’s Pick: WashTimes Showcases Report on How Few of Today’s Immigrants Work

    In a front-page story for Tuesday’s print edition and published Monday online, The Washington Times’s intrepid reporter Stephen Dinan shared the findings of a new Center for Immigration Studies report that said only 46 percent of recent immigrant arrivals — both illegal and legal — are holding down jobs and contributing to the American economy. “The Center for Immigration Studies, using Census Bureau numbers, calculates that 46% of immigrants who arrived over the past two years are employed....

  • Sky: CotL "The Art of Sky" art book promo video, artist exhibition announced

    Sky-high expectations for this release

  • Katie Holmes’s Artful Black Gown Looks Like It’s Dripping With Sequins

    Katie Holmes has nailed that posh New York City art philanthropist look we’re so used to seeing around Museum Mile.On Tuesday evening, the actor and director debuted the most sophisticated, artful ensemble to attend the annual American Ballet Theatre Spring Gala. The highlight of the look was Holmes’s flowy black gown.The floor-length Pucci kaftan features breezy sleeves, and at the rounded neck, it is embellished with squiggly stripes of pastel-colored sequins—black, brown, tan, beige, white,...

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    Greater Haverhill Arts Association Spring Art Exhibit at Penacook Place Through May 18

    The Greater Haverhill Arts Association is presenting a Spring Art Exhibit featuring members’ works in oil, acrylic, watercolor, colored pencil, digital art and stained glass. The display is the latest in the second year of an ongoing series of quarterly exhibits of favorite artworks from the studios of members. Art is on display to the […] The post Greater Haverhill Arts Association Spring Art Exhibit at Penacook Place Through May 18 first appeared on WHAV.

  • Film and TV art crews are facing an unemployment crisis. Here’s what it’s like for workers

    The Art Directors Guild (ADG) recently sent an email to aspiring film and television professionals with a bleak, shockingly candid message. Citing 75% unemployment among its 3,000-strong membership, the ADG not only announced in an email to prospective candidates a suspension of its Production Design Initiative (PDI)—which offers paid, on-the-job training in a variety of art department roles—but the email also stated: “Given this situation, we cannot in good conscience encourage you to pursue...

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    Hulu doc examines Black Twitter’s influence before Elon Musk’s wreckage

    Hulu’s docuseries “Black Twitter: A People’s History” chronicles the rise of a subculture that transformed the social media platform. Black users were already disproportionately present in digital spaces in the early 2000s, but Twitter helped those users find each other, especially after the hashtag became a thing in 2007 during Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign. Director Prentice Penny partnered with Jason Parham, senior writer at Wired, to document the history of Black people shaping...

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    Cinco cosas que probablemente no sabías sobre el mayor robo de arte de la historia

    Sofía Benavides (CNN) — La mayoría de las galerías de arte y museos son famosos por el arte que contienen. La Galería Nacional de Londres tiene “Los Girasoles” de Van Gogh; “La noche estrellada”, por su parte, está expuesta en el Museo de Arte Moderno de Nueva York, en buena compañía junto a los relojes