In 1979, the Museum of Modern Art hosted a small exhibition titled “Sound Art” that helped define the burgeoning medium. Broadly speaking it comprised anything aural — spoken word, installation, and even silence itself — that featured sound as both its medium and subject. Nearly fifty years later, Sonic Terrains in Latinx Art at Vincent Price Art Museum (VPAM) is …
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Persistence and perseverance. These are the words that Vallejo native Drew Lago uses when talking about his inspirations, outlook on life and how he has gotten to where he is today. The 41-year-old hip-hop artist and entrepreneur, whose stage name is DL da ARSUN, is in the running in a contest to win an opening spot at “We Can Survive” …
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In the first edition of our new column, Beats and Strings, we speak with Srikanth Chary, an accomplished Bay Area-based veena artiste. Srikanth frequently performs on television and radio, and is a graded artiste of the All India Radio. He has released three studio recordings (Janani, 1996; Tiger and Silk, 2002; Ethereal Melodies, 2007) that have won rave reviews from …
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This August, American artist Ian Cheng will explore the depths of metaverse psychology, pairing generative art with blockchain technology for a new NFT portrait series. “3FACE,” as Cheng calls the project, is based on an algorithm that generates abstract portraits of a purchaser’s online persona using data from their public cryptocurrency wallet. Cheng has produced “3FACE” in collaboration with Christopher …
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Lonni Pike uses her platform on TikTok as @grayhairandtattoos to encourage women to embrace their individuality no matter what age they are. That comes with advice, too, like how to avoid pitfalls at the tattoo parlour. A collector of body art, Pike, 57, told Insider that she has been getting tattooed since she was 30. Over the past 27 years …
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Persistence and perseverance. These are the words that Vallejo native Drew Lago uses when talking about his inspirations, outlook on life and how he has gotten to where he is today. The 41-year-old hip-hop artist and entrepreneur, whose stage name is DL da ARSUN, is in the running in a contest to win an opening spot at “We Can Survive” …
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