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Lovelamp is one of the artists of Dublin street art scene. In the past few years he has been attracting the attention of the public with his posters and stickers of lamps scattered all over the city. We asked him few questions about his unusual work and his opinion about Dublin street art.
A garden consisting of tunnels, pathways, grassy mounds, hidden spaces, and tall coloured poles dotted. This is not the latest Disney amusement park, but a project currently undertaken by RehabCare's Childern's Respite Service in Navan. The centre is a residential respite service for children with disabilities and or on the Autism Spectrum.
You visit his studio for the first time. There are tubes of paint everywhere, papers scattered on the floor, a broken mirror, slashed canvases, paint on the walls. Then you see the paintings. At first you notice a figure messed up by a series of spots and deforming lines. You look more carefully.
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French poet Charles Baudelaire once wrote: “But the true travellers are they who depart/ For departing's sake; with hearts light as balloons,/ They never swerve from their destinies,/ Saying continuously, without knowing why: 'Let us go on!'/ These have passions formed like clouds.”
When Miles Davis’ sextet recorded Kind of Blue in a disused Manhattan church in the spring of 1959, the history of music changed its course. Not only jazz, but all music. Artists as Terry Riley, La Monte Young, Brian Eno, the Velvet Underground, Keith Jarrett, Chris Rea, Robert Wyatt and many others, were all influenced by the two fateful sessions when Davis eventually achieved his aim: “learn all the changes”.
The use of Virtual Reality by non-profit organizations is one of the new frontiers of fundraising, allowing donors to experience realities that are often far away and difficult to imagine.
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Three American filmmakers at the Foyle Film Festival this year raise questions about memory and conscience. The Foyle Film Festival has been taking place every year in Londonderry since 1987 and is regarded as one of the most important events in Northern Ireland.
Through July 21st, La Centrale Électrique of Brussels exhibits the first monographic exhibition in Belgium of the controversial and surprising African artist Jane Alexander, titled Security (Surveys from the Cape of Good Hope).