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Now her organisation works with more than 90 artists each week, providing studio space, materials and tuition. Some of their works have been exhibited, commissioned and sold, with artist Shruti designing the advent calendar for beauty brand Lush, and Seatton painting the cover art for Irish music artist CMAT's second studio album, Crazymad, for Me. Meanwhile, Richard's painting called SHIP was featured in last month's edition of the House and Garden magazine.

At this year's Frieze London and Art Basel Paris fairs, many visitors were surprised to find works by an unexpected artist: Albania's prime minister, Edi Rama. Rama-who secured an unprecedented fourth term in May after campaigning to bring Albania into the EU-is also an established artist. Trained at Tirana's Academy of Fine Arts, he spent several years working in Paris before turning to politics in the late 1990s.

The Santa Maria di Missione chapel in Villafranca Piemonte, northern Italy, stands at the end of a long cornfield. Behind it, the mountains rise gently, their outlines caressed by the sun. The colours of autumn frame the 15th-century frescoes that embellish the structure's interior, painted by Italian artist Aimone Duce, of the Lombard school. The chapel is the municipality's oldest religious building, serving about 4,000 inhabitants, and stands on the site of a pre-existing building dating back to 1037.

The last time he'd visited the store was in 2018, when Derian first invited him to New York after encountering his work at an ornament fair in Frankfurt, Germany, on a tip from a Martha Stewart staffer.

"Before I could walk, they put a paintbrush between my toes," said Wicklow artist, Mary Duffy.

The holiday season is to Broadway and Off-Broadway what Black Friday is to retail: the moment when audiences flood in, families plan outings en masse, and producers hope that box-office receipts can single-handedly balance the year's budget. Shows built around nostalgia, spectacle, or the holidays themselves (i.e. A Christmas Carol, The Radio City Christmas Spectacular, The Nutcracker) tend to dominate.

South Florida's sunny skies proved an apt backdrop this week. Across Art Basel Miami Beach (ABMB), key industry figures are proclaiming the clouds hanging over the art market to have lifted. "The last two and a half years were really bad. But now we've moved onto the next 30-year cycle," says Pace's president Marc Glimcher. His gallery reported sales of almost $5m across the fair's first two days, including a 2020 painting by Sam Gilliam for $1.1m.

By the time I was cast in Rock'n'Roll in 2006 I had been following Tom for years. I saw Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead when it came to London in 1967 with the wonderful Graham Crowden as the Player King. It was a big sensation. The Real Thing was a great play and Arcadia was extraordinary. Rock'n'Roll was w at the Royal Court in London by Trevor Nunn and starred Rufus Sewell as Jan, a Czech student who returns to Prague in 1968.

With it's significant Bay Area connection, The Nutcracker has been a mainstay of local dance companies for decades and decades. And why not? The ballet and its iconic score by Tchaikovsky has everything a holiday production could ask for sumptuous choreography, unforgettable music and a Christmas setting. Once again, Bay Area troupes are offering a wide array of versions of the ballet that dominates the winter dance season and which historians estimate accounts for 40 percent of ballet company box office income each year.

I work intuitively, so moving between architecture, video, gaming and music has evolved organically. I've realised that my practice is really about different forms of immersion, which is a word that gets thrown around a lot. I think of immersion as a state of perception-the point at which you forget that you are fully within the medium. The performance at the Tate Tanks was about the immersion in the present moment that you get with music.

Marisa Merz (1926-2019) was the only woman among the core group associated with the influential Arte Povera movement, whose artists made sculptures from everyday materials instead of ones typically associated with fine art. Her exhibition was scheduled to open in August at the Fridericianum, which acts as the historic anchor of Documenta during the quinquennial's run and mounts major surveys when that festival isn't taking place.

Located on an unassuming block in Miami's Little Haiti neighbourhood, the once-derelict Villa Paula houses within it some of Miami's most fascinating lore. The residence was originally built in the late 19th century for Domingo Milord, the Cuban consul at the time, and his wife Paula, an opera singer. The Milords needed a comfortable residence that contrasted Cuba's rich design and architectural history compared to Miami's at-the-time provincial aesthetics.

The museum is set to focus on what it has termed "narrative art," or work that "tells the story of a society," according to Lucas.

Earth's Symphony, on view at the Leedy Voulkos Art Center in Kansas City, Missouri, through February 27, represents a pivotal moment in Rita Blitt 's decades-long dedication to exploring the expressive qualities of line, movement, and color. Her most recent paintings, created during the past three years, reflect Blitt's deepening connection with the natural world around her, building on core themes within her practice while reaching new levels of intimacy and nuance.

When I learned about Light Years, Judy Pfaff's debut exhibition at Cristin Tierney Gallery, I thought about what makes her work stand out to me. Pfaff, whose last solo show at a New York gallery was in 2019, has always assembled her sculptures out of diverse materials, from the store-bought and found to the fabricated. In Light Years, we encounter plastic flowers and fruit, a birds' and a wasps' nest, recycled plastic carpets, polyurethane foam, steel tubing, and LED and neon light.

Edvard Munch helps us cope with the good, the bad, and the ugly. (all edits Shari Flores/ Hyperallergic) It's December, the season of Spotify Wrapped and Apple Music Replay. Each year, the branded year-in-review graphics compile users' annual listening history and trends, converting them into shareable statistics that evoke the feeling of personality quiz results. We don't have the ability to track every reader's click history or favored content at Hyperallergic,

O'Keeffe's renderings of Northern New Mexico - which do not include Tewa people or culture - and the lore of her independent settler spirit are ingrained in the history of Western Modernism, and they continue to attract tourists, artists, and collectors to the region. Her self-proclaimed divinely sanctioned possession of the land is vital to consider when thinking critically about her art.

Hiba Schahbaz: The Garden Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami Until 16 March 2026 The first major retrospective devoted to the Karachi-born, Brooklyn-based artist Hiba Schahbaz, The Garden, features works spanning 15 years of the artist's practice-including loans from private collections, work from her studio and newly commissioned pieces. It was curated by Jasmine Wahi and is anchored by the idea of the jannat, the Paradise Garden, a motif rooted in Islamic tradition and Sufi poetry.