Art
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Erick Lottary and Cyanca release stunning music video for “Replay” shot at Portal in Charlotte
By CLTure News February 11, 2020 Charlotte’s Erick Lottary and Cyanca released a sultry and seductive song, “Replay” last week. The track, produced by Smwhereat4am has a mind-bending rhythm that showcases Cyanca’s glistening vocals on the hook and Lottary’s signature rap-singing style, creating a hypnotic appeal. On...
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‘PDA’ is a multimedia art exhibit exploring cultural perceptions of love and affection
By Shirley Griffith February 8, 2020 This Valentine’s Day weekend, you can share a love of art and community by bringing your friends or special someone to Crown Station for the gallery opening of PDA, a multimedia art exhibit created by Julio Gonzalez and Jillian...
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Charlotte’s John W. Love, Jr. awarded prestigious Creative Capital Award for his upcoming project, The Cathedral of Messes
By Matt Cosper Photo: Jay Weinmiller Charlotte’s John W. Love Jr. has received a Creative Capital Award for his upcoming project, The Cathedral of Messes. Creative Capital is one of the most significant granting programs in the U.S., because of the depth and breadth of...
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Making Arrangements art exhibit explores the many moods of floral design at Goodyear Arts
By Shirley Griffith January 7, 2020 When one hears the term “making arrangements,” most often funerals come to mind. Grief and loss in their quiet natural wisdom segue into planning: raw hearts beat into lists of who to call, despairing turns into ordering bouquets of...
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Vibrant mural at Northwest School of the Arts sheds light on history of West Charlotte
By Brandon Lunsford November 18, 2019 If you occasionally drive past the Northwest School of the Arts on Beatties Ford Road, you may have noticed a big change there over the summer; a colorful mural has taken over the front entrance facade. As you face...
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Alexandra Loesser Schoen’s art uses nature to examine the beauty of vulnerability
By Matt Cosper February 25, 2019 Painter Alexandra Loesser Schoen is an alchemist of image and color, working in oils to create dynamic aethers and dream-like images of animals, humans, and creatures somewhere in between. By placing symbolically rich figures into fields of pulsating color,...
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The history of The Mint Museum exhibits true dedication to the arts in Charlotte
By Brandon Lunsford January 11, 2019 In an interesting coincidence, the two locations of the Mint Museum in Charlotte opened their doors to the public during a period of almost 75 years that bookended two of America’s most critical financial collapses. The Mint Museum of...
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Charlotte visual artist HNin Nie’s work is imaginative, vulnerable, and saturated with emotion
By Matt Cosper January 6, 2019 Born in Vietnam but living in Charlotte’s West Side since infancy, 26-year-old visual artist HNin Nie creates visionary works in painting, sculpture and video. After a recent slew of successful gallery exhibitions, a residency with Goodyear Arts, Nie is...
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‘Talking Walls’ is a citywide public mural festival enhancing the visual appeal of Charlotte through thought-provoking murals.
Powered by the Mint Museum By Matt Cosper October 6, 2018 The walls are talking in Charlotte, if you know how to listen. Open your eyes and look around you. All over the city, muralists are magicians articulating a spectrum of fantastic dreamscapes, sly humor...
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Charlotte keeps growing, and so does John Hairston, Jr.
By Patrick O’Boyle March 24, 2018 When I met with artist John Hairston, Jr., he was on a ladder above a mob of spray paint cans. He’d been working all day on a mural in the hallway outside Oso Skate Park and was nearly done....
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