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Town Hall Theater’s Great Art Wednesday 2024-2025 Season Features Art & Architecture
by Stephi Wild - Oct 30, 2024

Town Hall Theater’s annual Great Art Wednesday series will return with a monthly film series that focuses on fine artists, and for the first time, also features world-renowned architects.

Avon Players Perform DRINKING ALONE Next Month
by Stephi Wild - Feb 15, 2024

Adult siblings reckon with their complicated past with their father as well as their unsatisfying life paths to comic effect as Avon Players presents Drinking Alone running March 8-23.

La MaMa Experimental Theater Club and Kinding Sindaw to Present New Exhibition 'In Honor of the Ancestors'
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 22, 2024

La MaMa Experimental Theater Club and Kinding Sindaw present a new exhibition, 'In Honor of the Ancestors: Indigenous Living Traditions from the Philippines in Diaspora,' open now through Sunday, January 26, 2024 at La MaMa Galleria.

Lord Patten Of Barnes Reveals Recipients Of Praemium Imperiale 2023
by Stephi Wild - Sep 13, 2023

The Japan Art Association and Lord Patten of Barnes, Praemium Imperiale’s International Advisor in the UK, have announced the recipients of the 2023 Praemium Imperiale Awards. Learn more about the winners here!

Lord Patten Announces Praemium Imperiale 2022 Recipients
by Stephi Wild - Sep 15, 2022

The Japan Art Association and Lord Patten of Barnes, Praemium Imperiale's International Advisor in the UK, have announced the recipients of the 2022 Praemium Imperiale Awards.

Lord Patten Of Barnes Announces Praemium Imperiale 2021 Laureates
by Stephi Wild - Sep 14, 2021

The Japan Art Association and Lord Patten of Barnes, Praemium Imperiale's International Advisor in the UK, have today announced the recipients of the 2021 Praemium Imperiale Awards.

British Museum To Reopen In Time For Great Court's 20th Anniversary
by Stephi Wild - Nov 27, 2020

The British Museum's Great Court – one of the most recognizable museum interiors in the world – turns 20 on Sunday 6 December 2020. Due to the lifting of England's national coronavirus restrictions and London entering Tier 2, the Museum will reopen ahead of the anniversary, welcoming the public again from this Thursday (3 Dec).

Museum of Arts and Design to Present Exhibition of Works by the World's Leading Stained-Glass Artist, Brian Clarke
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Sep 10, 2020

From September 17 through February 21, 2021, the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) will present a major exhibition of works by celebrated architectural artist and painter Brian Clarke (b. 1953, United Kingdom).

Japan Art Association Postpones 32nd Praemium Imperiale Awards Until 2021
by Stephi Wild - Jun 17, 2020

Due to concerns and uncertainties caused by the global Coronavirus pandemic, the Japan Art Association has made the difficult decision to postpone the 32nd Praemium Imperiale annual Awards Announcement of new laureates for an entire year until September 2021.  

Museum Of Arts and Design Will Present Major Exhibition Of Works By World's Leading Stained-Glass Artist
by Stephi Wild - Jan 16, 2020

From March 21 through August 23, 2020, the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) will present a major exhibition of works by celebrated architectural artist and painter Brian Clarke (b. 1953, United Kingdom). The first museum exhibition in the U.S. of Clarke's stained-glass screens, compositions in lead, and related drawings on paper, Brian Clarke: The Art of Light showcases the most considerable artistic and technical breakthrough in the thousand-year history of stained glass.

2019 Laureates Of The Praemium Imperiale Arts Award Celebrated In Tokyo
by Stephi Wild - Oct 16, 2019

At a ceremony at the Meiji Memorial Hall in Tokyo today, Their Imperial Highnesses Prince Hitachi, honorary patron of the Japan Art Association, and Princess Hitachi paid homage to the winners of the 2019 Praemium Imperiale International Arts Award. Recipients are Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, Architecture (U.S.A.); William Kentridge, Painting (South Africa); Mona Hatoum, Sculpture (U.K.); Anne-Sophie Mutter, Music (Germany); and Bando Tamasaburo, Theatre/Film (Japan).

Photo Flash: Arthur Pita's THE MOTHER At Southbank Centre
by Roy Tan - Jun 21, 2019

The Mother is a powerful, narrative dance production choreographed and directed by master storyteller Arthur Pita which has its London premiere at the Southbank Centre Queen Elizabeth Hall in June.  Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's dark tale, The Story of a Mother, this sumptuously designed production stars international dance superstar Natalia Osipova and award-winning contemporary dancer Jonathan Goddard.

THE MOTHER Comes to Southbank Centre
by Stephi Wild - May 16, 2019

The Mother is a powerful, narrative dance production choreographed and directed by master storyteller Arthur Pita which has its London premiere at the Southbank Centre Queen Elizabeth Hall in June. Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's dark tale, The Story of a Mother, this sumptuously designed production stars international dance superstar Natalia Osipova and award-winning contemporary dancer Jonathan Goddard.

Praemium Imperiale International Arts Award Celebrated In Tokyo
by Stephi Wild - Oct 23, 2018

At a ceremony in Tokyo today, His Imperial Highnesses Prince Hitachi, honorary patron of the Japan Art Association, and Princess Hitachi paid homage to the winners of the organization's 2018 Praemium Imperiale International Arts Award. They are Pierre Alechinsky, Painting (Belgium/France); Fujiko Nakaya, Sculpture (Japan); Christian de Portzamparc, Architecture (France); Riccardo Muti, Music (Italy); and Catherine Deneuve, Theatre/Film (France).

Caroline Kennedy Named U.S. International Advisor To Praemium Imperiale Arts Award
by Stephi Wild - Oct 22, 2018

The Japan Art Association has appointed Caroline Kennedy, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan, as International Advisor to Praemium Imperiale. Starting in November 2018, she will preside over the U.S. Nomination Committee, recommending candidates for the Praemium Imperiale International Arts Award. Ms. Kennedy will succeed, Ambassador William Luers, former President of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, who served in this role for 18 years and will become an Honorary Advisor.

México Regresa A La Academia De Arquitectura De Francia Con El Ingreso De Bernardo Gómez-Pimienta
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 12, 2018

México regresará a ocupar un sitio en la Academia de Arquitectura de Francia con el ingreso de Bernardo Gómez-Pimienta el próximo 25 de octubre en París.

FIRST MAN to Open the Morelia International Film Festival
by Kaitlin Milligan - Sep 26, 2018

The Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) revealed the programming of its 16th edition, which will take place from the 20th to the 28th of October 2018.

Photo Flash: Mikhail Baryshnikov Honored by Japan's Prince Hitachi
by BWW News Desk - Oct 18, 2017

At a ceremony in Tokyo today, His Imperial Highness Prince Hitachi, honorary patron of the Japan Art Association, paid homage to the winners of the Association's 2017 Praemium Imperiale International Arts Award. This year's laureates are legendary performer Mikhail Baryshnikov, world music star Youssou N'Dour, architect Rafael Moneo, visual artist Shirin Neshat and sculptor El Anatsui. Scroll down for photos from the awards ceremony!

Mikhail Baryshnikov and More Announced as 2017 Praemium Imperiale Award Winners
by BWW News Desk - Sep 12, 2017

The Japan Art Association has just announced that Mikhail Baryshnikov, widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest dancers of all time as well as a multi-talented performing artist, and world music star Youssou N'Dour.

Utah Opera to Celebrate 40 Years with 40 DAYS OF OPERA Festival
by BWW News Desk - Sep 1, 2017

From hot air balloons to chocolate and wine, Utah Opera begins its 40th anniversary season with '40 Days of Opera,' community events from September 1 through the opening production of the season in October as a way of honoring the voices of the past, present, and future of opera in Utah.