BETHEL, Ohio (WKRC) – A local couple, who initially met during a blind date, recreated a photo to celebrate their wedding Monday.
Photographer Hannah Brink said she set the two up on a blind date more than a year ago. Yesterday, Savannah and Colt tied the knot.
According to a heartfelt message posted on Facebook, Brink told the new couple that “I better be invited to the wedding,” not knowing that is exactly what would happen.
“Pursue each other as the years go by, and never forget how this day felt,” Brink wrote.
Stoyanova was working for the Ukrainian state broadcaster Suspilne as a photojournalist in Odesa when the Russian invasion began. She stayed to document everything and became a fixer. ‘In almost a year of work, fixing became the best school of reporting,’ she said. ‘Working with experienced journalists, photographers and videographers, you learn how to be like them. You learn to search for topics, contacts, people, places. You organise all the work, start writing texts and then do the pictures’
Photograph: Nikoletta Stoyanova/IPPG 2023
From Metal and Jazz to Hip Hop, there isn’t a type of music Native Americans don’t play. #k5evening
SEATTLE — Inside Seattle’s Discovery Park, voices that were once silenced are now being heard around the world.
“The goal of this station is to indigenize the airwaves. And we are Daybreak Star Radio,” said Sherry Steele, Station Manager for Daybreak Star Radio. “The station was created in the first place specifically to give a voice to Native American musical artists.”
Steele adds, “People are often surprised by the different varieties and styles of Native American music. They’re surprised that for instance, Native Americans do metal. They’re also surprised that natives do Jazz. There’s a surprise that natives do Hip Hop, which always surprises me because Hip Hop is storytelling and that’s what Native Americans do.”
One of the station’s on-air personalities is DJ Big Rez.
“I’ve been a DJ for years, kind of a mobile DJ doing gigs and concerts and basically almost anything when it comes to DJing really,” said Big Rez. “To have a chance to highlight indigenous people, you know that was one of the biggest things that I wanted to do or heard but I got I tried to do throughout my career being indigenous, pushing them into the radio stations and I worked out now just to have a whole radio station focused on it. It was it was a full like I just dove in cannonball into it.”
The feedback Big Rez gets about the station and the artist it plays is overwhelmingly positive.
“After a show, I’ve had so many people like ‘holy cow, who is that artist? Where’s that from?’ And you know, and it’s cool to be able to be on such a big platform now and being highlighted, you know, getting interviews, things like that to showcase what we can really do,” said Big Rez. “It’s just music, but it’s an art form. I’ve learned it’s an energy. It’s important to just highlight these people, you know, it’s their art, it’s their story.”
And with Daybreak Star Radio providing the platform for Native American music, those stories will continue to be heard.
“It’s emotional, you know? And it’s crazy to be here to show everyone, you know, we can do it we can get it,” said Big Rez. “I said I’m from Lummi nobody knows that, I do, I’m trying to show the world and this place gave it to me.”
Paris+ par Art Basel’s second edition, highlighting the city’s cultural vitality and its growing stature in the global art market, has concluded. With 154 premier galleries, including 61 in France, the event showcased the country’s thriving art scene. It featured a diverse public program in collaboration with renowned cultural institutions across six Parisian locations. This edition welcomed 15 new galleries from Europe, the Americas, Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Held at the Grand Palais Éphémère from October 20 to 22, 2023, the fair drew 38,000 attendees. The next edition will take place at Art Basel’s permanent venue—the iconic (renovated) Grand Palais—from October 18 to 20, 2024.
Here are some highlights from this year’s Paris+ par Art Basel:
In Paris, the art scene is abuzz with a retrospective of Mark Rothko’s 115 works at Fondation Louis Vuitton, the first comprehensive exhibit in France since 1999, featuring loans from esteemed institutions worldwide. Simultaneously, Paris+ par Art Basel presented a notable Rothko piece, “Olive over Red” (1956), available for $40 million through Pace Gallery. Another valuable Rothko, “Untitled (Yellow, Orange, Yellow, Light Orange)” from 1955, is now at Christie’s, estimated at $45 million (after not being sold for $60 million at Art Basel in June).
Artist Sarah Sze, represented the United States at the 2013 Venice Biennale.
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Sarah Sze, born in Boston in 1969 and currently based in New York, is an acclaimed artist. She represented the United States at the 2013 Venice Biennale and received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2003. Her works are showcased in esteemed museums globally, including Tate in the UK, M+ Museum in Hong Kong and The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Sze’s art is also part of permanent collections at renowned institutions such as the Guggenheim Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Notably, she has contributed public installations to locations like the High Line, Second Avenue Subway Station and LaGuardia Airport in New York.
Rashid Johnson’s uses materials like ceramic and mirror tiles, oyster shells, branded red oak, … [+]
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Born in Chicago in 1977, Rashid Johnson is a prominent contemporary American artist. His diverse practice spans photography, sculpture, painting, drawing, film and installation. Johnson explores themes such as art history, cultural identities, personal narratives, literature, philosophy, materiality and critical history, using a wide range of materials imbued with symbolism and personal significance. In his Surrender Paintings, Rashid Johnson continues to delve into the Anxious Men motif. These works feature ghostly faces rendered in Titanium White oil paint on raw linen, evoking a sense of acceptance and reconciliation. Johnson deliberately restricts the palette to white on raw linen, creating an aura of redemption and acknowledgment. These new series offer a simplicity and quiet resonance that echo the collective experiences of recent months.
Ed Ruscha’s HUGE CONDITIONS champions awareness for climate change and sustainability.
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Ed Ruscha’s “Huge Conditions” (2007) is a standout among his works characterized by expansive landscapes overlaid with text. To achieve the photorealistic effect seen here, Ruscha initially applied a thin layer of paint directly to the canvas, refining details with precise acrylic brushwork. The distinctive font used for the text, named “Boy Scout Utility Modern” by the artist, features straight lines without curves. The typeface’s wide spacing and Ruscha’s deliberate lateral composition enhance its square, straight quality, making it a striking example of the iconic style he developed in the 1980s.
Soon Windy will be back at New York’s High Line, after a visit at the Parisian Tuileries Gardens … [+]
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Meriem Bennani’s dynamic sculpture, “Windy” (2022), presented by Clearing and co-commissioned by High Line Art and Audemars Piguet Contemporary, was on display in Paris’s Jardin des Tuileries from October 17 to 22. This artwork was part of a featured piece in “La Cinquième Saison” (“The Fifth Season”), a public exhibition organized by Paris+ par Art Basel and the Musée du Louvre. Curated by Annabelle Ténèze, the incoming director of the Louvre Lens Museum, this exhibition was part of Paris+ par Art Basel’s 2023 public program, spanning six locations across the French capital.
What made Parisian hearts beat faster these days: Gaetano Pesce, Double Heart (2022)
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A design luminary, Gaetano Pesce drew inspiration from his 1969 lamp design to craft a monumental sculpture in 2022. The recurring motif of the pierced double heart features prominently in his artwork. It encapsulates a core tenet of Pesce’s artistic philosophy, emphasizing contemporary engagement with the exuberance and romance found in objects and people. Placed at the garden entrance, the pierced hearts symbolize deep poetry and hint at life’s uncertainties and potential tragedies.
Pesce’s rich background includes studying architecture, founding the “N” Group in 1959, and pioneering innovative materials and shapes in design since 1962. His work graces over 30 prestigious national and international museum collections, from MoMA to the Victoria and Albert Museum.
One of the highlights from the Emerging Artists section of Paris+ par Art Basel 2023
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Dylan Solomon Kraus, born in 1987, employs mythical symbols and geometric shapes in his artistic practice, offering a fresh perspective on pastoral nightscapes featuring celestial elements. He has held solo exhibitions at various prestigious venues, including Almine Rech in London, Peres Projects in Seoul and Milan, Mamoth in London and Entrance in New York. Additionally, Kraus has contributed to numerous group exhibitions in New York, such as Europa, Jack Hanley and Tramps, and was recently featured in a group exhibition at Hoffmann Maler Wallenberg in Nice.
Roses et Matisse “Les Fleurs du Mal” by Jean-Philippe Delhomme, one of the 26 artists represented … [+]
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As an official Paris+ par Art Basel Partner, Maison Guerlain presents from October 18 to November 13, 2023, “Les Fleurs du Mal,” an exhibition paying homage to Charles Baudelaire’s poetry. This tribute aligns with Maison Guerlain’s 170th-anniversary celebration of the “Bee Bottle,” created for Empress Eugénie, a poetry enthusiast. Baudelaire’s “Les Fleurs du Mal” once provoked fascination and outrage, leading to his trial, where the Empress intervened on his behalf.
Beyond history, Maison Guerlain explores the connection between nature and artistic creation, delving into the dualities of flowers. Each exhibit reflects on existence’s fragility, prompting contemplation of life, death and transcendence.
Curated by Hervé Mikaeloff, the 16th annual contemporary art exhibition features 26 artists worldwide. They interpret the theme using various artistic media, with some creating pieces exclusively for the event. For Mikaeloff, it was very important to bring different generations, genders and nationalities of artists together, to create contrast, vibrancy and curiosity. What’s beautiful is that all these artworks harmonize so perfectly despite their differences—or maybe because of their contrasts. What a beautiful purpose.
Maison Guerlain’s tradition as an art patron since 1828 continues, fostering creative dialogues with painters, designers, sculptors and photographers. Through “Bee Art by Guerlain,” they champion art’s role in addressing pressing issues, supporting ecological awareness and artistic engagement. This event offers a platform for emerging and established artists, contributing to the international contemporary art scene.
Constellation 2019 by Vietnamese artist Day And Nhan Duc representing the cycles of life.
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In addition, Lee Ufan Arles and Maison Guerlain have awarded the Art & Environment Prize to Djabril Boukhenaïssi for its inaugural edition. Chosen from 381 applicants and five finalists by a jury of esteemed cultural figures presided over by Lee Ufan, the winner will enjoy six to eight weeks of residency support followed by a solo exhibition in Lee Ufan Arles’ Espace MA in the summer of 2024. This museum, located in the city center, showcases Lee Ufan’s work while nurturing contemporary art and cultural interactions.
The prize offers visibility and career opportunities and opens doors for collaboration with Maison Guerlain. Boukhenaïssi’s art explores disappearance and fragility, weaving evanescent memories into personal and collective narratives. Following his studies at Beaux-Arts de Paris in Djamel Tatah’s studio, he established his studio for engraving and painting in the Normandy countryside, inspired by the starry night’s boundless muse for his artistic and philosophical musings.
