June is here!
- elainebac1
- 5 days ago
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Festival d’art urbain:
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Finalists for 2026 Sobey Art Award revealed. The winner of Canada’s premier prize in contemporary art will be announced Nov. 14 in Ottawa.
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Photography:
Nadya Kwandibens - 'The Lens Bears Witness: An Indigenous Perspective'
Nadya Kwandibens is Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) from the Animakee Wa Zhing #37 First Nation in northwestern Ontario. She is an award-winning photographer, a Canon Ambassador, and the current Photo Laureate for the City of Toronto. In 2008 she founded Red Works Photography - http://www.redworks.ca/info/ a dynamic photography company specializing in natural light portraiture, headshots sessions, as well as event and concert photography. Her work has been exhibited in group and solo shows across Canada, the United States, and selected Canadian Embassies around the world.
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One of the world's most private photographers is finally showing his work. Discover what Steven Meisel saw in London in 1993 – and why every photographer should pay attention.
Who Is STEVEN MEISEL? Fashion’s ultimate enigma has had Vogue Italia’s cover under his spell for the past twenty years, nonstop. Considered the world’s greatest fashion photographer, a rare interview gets us just that much closer to finding out: who is STEVEN MEISEL?
Top Five Fashion Photographers:
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When Shirin Neshat photographed Malala, she turned to calligraphy to say what the camera alone could not. The Malala Yousafzai portrait that went beyond photography is now on show at a new immersive London experience.
Malala Yousafzai by Shirin Neshat, 2018 (Image credit: Shirin Neshat/National Portrait Gallery)
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Lunch on a Beam (Image credit: Rockefeller Group)
Town and store, Mrs. Samuels holding baby (Image credit: Courtesy Special Collections, University Library, University of California, Santa Cruz. Ruth-Marion Baruch and Pirkle Jones Photographs and Papers)
Maxwell Street Market, Chicago, 1964 (Image credit: Estate of Don Bronstein)
The awarded photographer follows a new approach to photography, adding illustrations with impact (Image credit: © Citlali Fabián, Mexico, Photographer of the Year, Professional Competition, Creative, Sony World Photography Awards 2026)
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Music:
100 ans de Miles Davis : l’art de se réinventer.
The Miles Davis century: The definition, and evolution, of cool.
Miles Davis (seen here during a concert in New York's Central Park in 1969) might have been more compelled to self-reinvention than any other artist in the 20th century. Jack Vartoogian/Getty Images
Also - Sonny Rollins, colossus of the saxophone, has died at 95.
US musician Sonny Rollins performs, 29 June 2006 in Vienne, southeastern France, during the opening of the Vienne Jazz Festival. Jeff Pachoud/AFP via Getty Images
Jazz great Sonny Rollins dead at 95. Largely self-taught, Rollins constantly adopted new styles and sounds, calling himself 'a work in progress'
SONNY ROLLINS on Monk and The Bridge – the animation is great!
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