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The fifth edition of Less Is More announces its selection The participants in Less Is More 2021 The fifth edition of Less Is More (LIM), the European development programme for limited feature films, has announced its selection, which consists of 16 script projects and 12 Development angels. Despite these troubling times, a total of 350 applicants from more than 70 countries, including a handful of new ones from around the world, applied. LIM is a training and coaching programme dedicated to scr...

The Covid-induced crisis has caused some to question the funding of arts venues, but they're key to sustaining our world-envied industry

But his piano has gone from something to be feared to Learmonth’s most treasured possession. “I’m new to the piano-playing thing,” he confessed. “It’s a lockdown love that has happened; something I’d been putting off for fear of the instrument, but something I’m loving more and more.” Ross Learmonth and Prime Circle back in concert Good news for fans is that Learmonth and his fellow Prime Circle sidekicks will finally be heading back to the Ticketpro Dome for a concert on 28 ...

Gerald Feil He also shot the Rolling Stones concert film Lets Spend the Night Together, directed by Hal Ashby. Gerald Feil, a cinematographer who worked on Lord of the Flies, Friday the 13th Part III and the Hal Ashby-directed Rolling Stones concert film Lets Spend the Night Together, died Feb. 9 in Montreal after a short illness, a family spokesman said. He was 87. Feil also served as a lead cameraman and director for Africa, a four-hour documentary that aired on ABC in 1967 and was hosted...

Warhol Foundation announces fall 2020 grants Joshua Dudley Greer, TNT Storage Igloo N6-B, Point Pleasant, West Virginia, 2012. Archival pigment print. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Richard and Ronay Menschel Fund for the Acquisition of Photographs, 2019.345. © Joshua Dudley Greer; image courtesy of the artist. - from grantee Harvard Art Museums exhibition Devour the Land: War and American Landscape Photography since 1970. NEW YORK, NY .-The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts announ...

Duane Linklater, The place I seek to go, 2014, coyote fur, garment rack, hanger, flatscreen TV, Mac Mini, HD video loop, cables, 132 x 66 x 20". Photo: SITE Photography. Collection of Remai Modern, Saskatoon. Courtesy Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver. January 14, 2021 at 12:51pm The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has announced the fifty-one recipients of its fall 2020 grants, which total $3.9 million and are issued in support of visual arts programs, exhibitions...

On the occasion of the publication of museum strategist András Szántó’s new book,  The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues, the author will speak with Sandra Jackson-Dumont, director of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles, and Marie-Cécile Zinsou, president and founder of Benin’s Zinsou Foundation, about new models for what a museum can be. Brooklyn Museum director Anne Pasternak will also speak with Victoria Noorthoorn, director of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aire...

A Scramble to Boost Vaccinations in New York [Here’s how you can get the Alternate-side parking: In effect until Jan. 18 (Martin Luther King’s Birthday). Image Credit...David Dee Delgado/Reuters New York is now entering its fifth week since coronavirus vaccinations began. But the effort has been rife with complications. Medical providers, unable to find patients who met the state’s vaccination guidelines, have reported throwing away doses. A more transmissible variant of the virus has b...

Art & Design|In 177 Portraits, an Artist’s Homage to His Bed-Stuy Muse The artist Kambui Olujimi at his Long Island City studio with new works, called North Star, that combine painting and collage and conjure Black figures in a state of weightlessness. The works were partly inspired by his ink paintings of Catherine Arline.Credit...Simbarashe Cha for The New York Times In 177 Portraits, an Artist’s Homage to His Bed-Stuy Muse Over five years, Kambui Olujimi created paintings in tribut...

Can each influence the other simultaneously? The answer to those philosophical questions — a topic of debate for over a century — may be found in the exhibitions of the Clark Art Institute, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art and the Norman Rockwell Museum opened at the end of the state-mandated COVID-19-related closure of museums. Although the shutdown pushed a majority of the summers scheduled programming into 2021, exhibitions that did open in 2020 seemed to reflect societ...