Vaudeville is thriving in Los Angeles defining a new entertainment era with Lucent Dossier at the Edison Lounge. The shows are spectacular that include stunning aerial acts from acrobats, one-act plays and athletes, minstrels, and short movies. The artists’ self-described ‘gypsy glamour’ like face painting, fantastically Vaudeville-inspired costumes, body painting, headdresses and stunning look make the show exciting. The amazing performance from creative community headed by Lucent Dossier adding value to the mass entertainment, continuing with new experiments to preserve the wonderful historic graphics of the past.
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Contadores de Estorias is a Brazilian troupe of puppets (Storytellers) has been in existence for 30 years. The Storytellers, comprised of Rachel and Marcos Caetano Ribas from the beach town of Parati, they have good number of captive audience those religiously attend such event. They have been traveling the world with the puppets which they handmade, focusing on adult topics, the troupe Conveying just through gestures not the spoken word. Watch here one of their creation;
The British Museum has the greatest sculpture collections in the world, it preserve cultural history from ancient to contemporary housing more than 7 million objects in its collection of artifacts, their collections also include a broad range of contemporary works from around the world.. More than 4.5 million visitors each year visit the museum. This autumn it will showcase a group of creative works by leading contemporary British artists.
The Statuephilia exhibition at British Museum becoming the center of attraction which include the creative work of major artists such as Damien Hirst and Marc Quinn are featuring their statues in the exhibition. Marc Quinn sculpted Kate Moss, 34, out of bronze back in a sculpture called Sphinx showing the supermodel in a revealing yoga pose. Now she has been cast in solid gold and would be part of the Statuephilia exhibit, this beauty icon will take up residence amongst the beautiful women of Ancient Egypt and Greece.
Fine art photography fulfill the creative imagination of the artist and it provide visual support for the stories too, for print media and as well online presentation it is one of the tool that help you greatly while you find the text is not just enough to express your feeling! Adam’s photography work of the beauty of Sierra Nevada mountain is one of the best example of such creative work which raised public awareness and that helped to build political support for their protection.
The Fine art has greater contribution in the area of censorship law and free expression in 20th Century, it could have greater leverage especially if this art of photography addressed with certain cause, the approaches of representation of great perception could be archival, historical, anthropological, sociological or theoretical.. here is one more extension.. Fine art can blend with stills from the famous movies through photoshopping.. Creativity has no boundaries…
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An elegant exhibit of about 350 old paparazzi shots is currently on display at the “Helmut Newton Foundation” in Berlin, the photos of the Paparazzi and Pigozzi collections include stunning black and white shots of classic Hollywood which are marvelous blast from the past from the days of Studio 54 to present. The gallery include works by Salomon, Weegee, Galella, Quinn, Angeli, Secchiaroli, Pigozzi and Helmut Newton. Check here the slide show.
“The show advertises itself as the first survey of paparazzi in this country, and that makes sense. Chalk up Germany’s ambivalence toward homegrown celebrity to what Ulf Poschardt, the founding editor of the German version of Vanity Fair magazine and now an editor at the newspaper Welt am Sonntag, the other day called “aggressive egalitarianism.” “The complete affirmation of yourself is considered kitsch here,” he said. “You can’t do it.” Patrick von Ribbentrop put it somewhat differently. “There isn’t the right setup,” he said. A 35-year-old clothing entrepreneur with a famous name to bear (he’s the grandson of the Nazi foreign minister), he attributes the state of German celebrity culture, such as it is, to “a marketing problem.”- ( nytimes )
