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Dead Beautiful Art Supplies & Services When Once Living Things Become Works of Art 22 Paint It, Frame It, Insure It, Ship It! 55 Regional News Showcase SCOTLAND’S NO.1 ART MAGAZINE APRIL/MAY 2018 art • craft • design ART Dead TRAVEL& EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF Beautiful CULTURE: LEEUWARDEN ONCE LIVING THINGS AS WORKS OF ART Art News CRAFT & DESIGN KEEPING YOU IN THE PICTURE HAND-MADE FOR YOU & YOUR HOME TICKETS TO THE GLASGOW CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR PREVIEW EVENING! POTFEST WIN! SCOTLAND & A CERAMIC PIECE WORTH £100! A PERFORMANCE BY THE SCOTTISH ENSEMBLE! ALEXANDER MILLAR HEADS FOR NYC Critically acclaimed artist Alexander Millar opens his first ever international museum show in New York on 3rd April 2018. The exhibition, Everyday Heroes NYC pays tribute to the firefighters of New York as the working men and women of the city. The exhibition at the New York City Fire Museum opens on Tuesday 3rd April and Millar will exhibit work in the city throughout April. "With this new museum collection, I was very keen to look at the late 20th and 21st century, and recognise the more modern eve???ryday heroes working to keep our cities and societies safe." Alexander Millar Fans can find out more and see some of the collection online or in person at the New York Fire Museum and the Alexander Millar pop- up gallery on 138 Wooster Street, New York. www.everydayheroesnyc.com YOUTH & YOUNG MANHOOD Youth & Young Manhood by Alexander Millar is available in galleries and online now. alexandermillar.com The limited edition collection imagines Millar's familiar Gadgie characters in their youth, taking inspiration from ARTAY classic films, Peaky Blinders and the streets of New York City. From £195 on alexandermillar.com "Youth & Young Manhood is almost like a prequel to the Gadgie, the way our old Gadgies were in their youth. My Papa, or yours, as a young man, his hopes for the future, his attitude, the good and the bad of a teen becoming a man." 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Selections by participating is by the street artist Ryan Callanan, better artists and makers on display at the Barony known as RYCA. A church representative Centre, West Kilbride, until Apr 29. noted that the work ‘was larger and more RYAN “RYCA” DUMFRIES & GALLOWAY prominent than was anticipated when the CALLANAN, exhibition was approved. Its position in the ‘CRUCIFIED Spring Fling, May 26-28, STORMTROOPER’ church proved to be distracting for some www.spring-fling.co.uk See preview page 33. Also related exhibition, entitled Place, worshippers.’ with critics pointing out that she walked Ottersburn Gallery in Dumfries, Apr 17-May 7. Commenting on the debate, RYCA told without a limp, climbed a pyramid and Artnet News: “This is a crucified stormtrooper danced. FIFE and has nothing to do with religion. It is not Other critics have argued that her Open Studios North Fife. May 5-7, a method of capital punishment reserved clothes do not accurately represent the www.openstudiosfife.co.uk; Artline Open for the son of God. This work is like many traditional costumes Kahlo favoured and Doors Weekend, May 5 & 6, www.theartline. of my works, using symbology and pop even her most famous physical feature, her co.uk. See preview page 43. culture and mixing them up to create a new almost conjoined eyebrows, have been narrative.” www.artbelow.org.uk neatly trimmed. The Inspiring Women series was IT’S A DOLL’S LIFE launched on International Women’s Day, The Mattel toy company has caused a the same day Hayek posted a still from ruckus with the launch of a Frida Kahlo her movie on Instagram, depicting the artist doll as part of its Inspiring Women range. painting from a wheelchair. Mexican actress Salma Hayek, whose portrayal of her compatriot in the 2002 OPEN STUDIOS film ‘Frida’ earned her an Academy You can visit artists and craftmakers Award nomination, protested on Twitter in their workplaces and get a that Kahlo ‘never tried to be or look peek into their methods during like anyone else.
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