Dazzled by Art

Arabian Post -Presenting Sun Life Pavilion: “Sun Life Believes Art Can Forge a Brighter Tomorrow” HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach Newswire – 26 August 2024 – Sun Life is proud to announce title sponsorship of ART021 HONG KONG Contemporary Art Fair, marking the highly anticipated debut of this prestigious art fair in Hong Kong, following its acclaimed successes in mainland China with over 20 international-grade art fairs hosted […] via Sun Life Announces Title Sponsorship of the Inaugural ART021 HONG KONG Presenting Sun Life Pavilion: “Sun Life Believes Art Can Forge a Brighter Tomorrow” HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach Newswire – 26 August 2024 Sun Life is proud to announce title sponsorship of ART021 HONG KONG Contemporary Art Fair, marking the highly anticipated debut of this prestigious art fair in Hong Kong, following its acclaimed successes in mainland China with over 20 international-grade art fairs hosted over the past decade. Foun...

Would you be brave enough to visit? Joel Griggs, curator at the True Crime Museum, reveals all (Picture: True Crime Museum) Peering keenly at towering acid containers as her mum reads from the nearby information boards, a young girl in a sing-songy voice says: ‘The lady’s head has gone. The acid has made it all go into sludge.’ ‘Sludge?’ her mother asks. ‘Yes, sludge,’ the little girl replies. The huge barrels the pair are looking at are displayed in the True Crime Museum in White Rock, Hastings, and once belonged to the fearsome John George Haigh. The British serial killer, who claimed to drink the blood of those he ensnared, would dissolve his victims in vats of sulphuric acid. After agreeing Haigh was ‘a naughty man’, the young girl and her mother continue on their merry way around what could well be Britain’s most eerie museum, located in the seaside town of Hastings. ‘Parents know whether their child is going t...

Mandie van der Merwe and Avish Gordhan, the creative duo at Saatchi & Saatchi Australia, sit down with Campaign to discuss navigating creativity in a tech-driven world, the flexibility in their partnership, and their relentless pursuit of excellence. Creative Duos in Advertising Advertising has often been shaped by the creative synergy of visionary duos—partnerships that have not only defined agencies but also left an indelible mark on the industry. Think of Nike’s Phil Knight and Dan Wieden, the duo behind the iconic "Just Do It" campaign, or Apple’s Steve Jobs and Lee Clow, whose collaboration brought us the legendary "Think Different" ads. These partnerships exemplified how powerful creative alliances could reshape brands and create lasting cultural impact. For the Australia and New Zealand region, one such standout creative duo is Mandie van der Merwe and Avish Gordhan. Appointed as joint chief creative officers at Saatchi & Saatchi Aust...

See iconic Edgar Allan Poe poems and short stories, featuring gothic tales, dark themes, and hauntingly beautiful language from the master of macabre. Portrait of American author Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) Undated illustration, after a photo by Matthew Brady. Bettmann Archive Boston-born, Richmond-raised Edgar Allan Poe is one of the greatest writers of all time and his name is one that inspires images of dark, atmospheric plots, haunting characters and soul-gripping storytelling. One of the reasons why Poe is called the master of the macabre is because he took the horror genre and found a niche within it. Even so many generations later, Poe’s creative DNA remains of the driving forces of the horror and mystery genres, and his works remain as unsettling and dreadful today as they were in the 19th century. Poe’s writing career began in the early 1820s with the release of “Tamerlane and Other Poems,” a collection of poems that included the well-thought-ou...

Aug 22 (IPS) - CIVICUS speaks with Chris Garrard, co-founder and co-director of Culture Unstained, about the campaign to end fossil fuel sponsorship of cultural institutions, which oil companies use to try to present a positive public image. Read the full story, “UK: ‘Many in the Climate Justice Movement Are Finding Creative and Imaginative Ways to Protest’”, on globalissues.org → by CIVICUS Thursday, August 22, 2024 Inter Press Service The campaign has achieved some notable successes, with the Royal Shakespeare Company and Tate group of art galleries ending BP sponsorship deals and the Edinburgh Science Festival rejecting fossil fuel funding. Recently, the Science Museum in London ended its sponsorship arrangement with the Norwegian state-owned oil giant Equinor. It's now under pressure to reconsider its relationships with Adani and BP. How significant is the London Science Museum's decision to end its sponsorship by Equinor? The museum...

Conventional art history proclaims Abstract Expressionism as the first originally “American” artform. With all due respect to Jackson Pollock, another novel artform was simultaneously developing in post-War America. Installation Image: ‘Where I Learned to Look: Art from the Yard,’ 2024 Constance Mensh Conventional art history proclaims Abstract Expressionism as the first originally “American” artform. With all due respect to Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, and the de Koonings, another novel artform was simultaneously developing in post-War America. It came from Wisconsin and Mississippi and Texas, outside “The City” whose critics, curators and collectors decreed what had worth and what did not. Emerging from the hinterland, this creative expression did not pass their muster. Neither did its practitioners. These artists didn’t attend the Arts Students League. They often didn’t attend any art college, or any college, or sometimes any high school for that matter. Yard art. Th...