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Yahoo
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Artists with abilities share joy of art in High Point
HIGH POINT, N.C. (WGHP) — Remi Vizcaino is just 11 years old, and he loves art. 'This is one of the … things that I enjoy, and I hope everyone else enjoys,' Remi said. 'Just making people happy and making people smile.' Remi's artistic treasures are on display at the Phillips Collection Showroom on 135 S Main St. He is just one of many with the group Artists with Abilities who are part of the Phillips Collection's Luminous Layers exhibition this year. Since 2009, the Phillips family has helped showcase the work of talented artists. 'Our goal is to do something meaningful for the community, for these artists who have become our friends, to raise awareness, 'said Jason Phillips with the Phillips Collection. 'This is a community that is underrepresented and deserves our focus and attention.' 'It doesn't matter how hard you do,' Remi said. 'It matters how much it makes you happy.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to FOX8 WGHP.
Axios
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
Your guide to WorldPride 2025 in D.C.
WorldPride Festival kicks off May 17, and three weeks of parties, rallies, concerts and events will draw major star power and an expected 2-3 million revelers to D.C. The big picture: The LGBTQ+ celebration, which also commemorates the 50th anniversary of Pride events in Washington, has been years in the making. The city is prepping for crowds with a new parade route, a tap-and-pay Metro card system, and amped-up security. Some plans are shifting last-minute due to the Trump administration's attacks on DEI and the trans community. WorldPride organizers announced this week that they're moving all events out of the Kennedy Center to new venues following President Trump's takeover. Meanwhile, huge names like Cynthia Erivo, Jennifer Lopez, RuPaul and Troye Sivan will join the star-packed lineup in a show of solidarity. Between the lines: Within the larger Pride celebrations, look for community-centered events for DC Latinx Pride, Trans Pride, Black Pride, API Pride, Silver Pride and those with disabilities during the festival. Hungry? Taste of Pride is happening in neighborhoods around the city, highlighting LGBTQ+ bars, restaurants and allies. Many museums like the Phillips Collection are running special exhibits, plus there's a free outdoor exhibit at Freedom Plaza that traces the history of D.C. Pride. Zoom in: Nonstop events are happening through June 8 and beyond. Here's your guide to major moments, free fun, and all the good vibes you can handle. See the full event list here. Free entry events are marked with a * Festival headliners You won't want to miss: Welcome Concert | Saturday, May 31 Shakira kicks things off at Nationals Park on her first World Tour since 2018. The evening also honors Capital Cup athletes. WorldPride Music Festival | June 6-7 Stars take over three stages at the RFK Festival Grounds with headliners like Jennifer Lopez, Troye Sivan, Galantis, Grimes, Kim Petras, Marina, Paris Hilton and more. WorldPride Parade * | June 7 The massive parade from Logan Circle to near the Capitol is followed by a concert on Pennsylvania Avenue headlined by Cynthia Erivo. It's free, though new security fencing likely means long lines. Folks can also buy VIP tickets. WorldPride Street Festival * | June 7-8 The two-day festival on Pennsylvania Avenue includes artisans, food, beverage gardens and free concerts on multiple stages headlined by Doechii. International March + Rally * | June 8 The festival closes out with a morning rally at the Lincoln Memorial and march towards the Capitol, which will end near the festival grounds and free concerts. Sports 🏆 Capital Cup Sports Festival * (May 30 – June 4): You can register for bocce or basketball, swimming and darts — there's a huge range at venues throughout town. ⚾ Night OUT at Washington Nationals (June 5): MLB's longest-running Pride event includes a special jersey and donation to Team DC. The Nats play the Chicago Cubs. Theater/entertainment 🎭 Gay for DC Theatre (May 16 – June 7): Theatres throughout D.C. participate in a "micro-festival" showcasing LGBTQ+-themed productions with specially priced tickets. 📽️ WorldPride Film Festival (May 27-29): A collaboration with the Queen Film Institute, the festival showcases LGBTQ+ stories through documentary and films screened across D.C. 💃 Drag Through the Decades (June 8): Mr. Henry's on Capitol Hill hosts a show that pays tribute to the evolution of drag, from '80s divas through today's icons. Concerts 🌟 Project GLOW (May 31 – June 1): RFK Festival Grounds hosts the famous electronic music festival headlined by Alan Walker, Loud Luxury, Subtronics, Tiësto and more. 🎼 Opera on Tap DC Metro * (May 22): Keep it classical with a free night of music from LGBTQ+ composers, librettists, and poets and Wonderland Ballroom. 👯♂️ The Capital House Music Festival * (May 23-24): The largest free world music festival at Alethia Tanner Park features 11 hours of nonstop tunes with cocktail and food vendors to keep the party going. 🎤 Choral Festival (May 23- June 8): The Gay Men's Chorus of DC, along with LGBTQ+ choruses from across the country, will perform 45-minute concerts at multiple venues daily during WorldPride. 💐 Full Bloom (June 6): Queer nightlife collectives and artists showcase music and dance across three indoor/outdoor stages in Northeast. 📼 MIXTAPE Pride Party (June 6): Head to the 9:30 Club where DJs Matt Bailer and Shea Van Horn will spin a mix of house, indie dance, nu-disco, electropop and throwbacks. Street festivals and parties 🛥️ Pride on the Pier * (June 6-7): Head to the Wharf for a free pier party with DJs, dancing, food and drinks. 🎉 * (June 6-7): The local block party in D.C.'s original "Gayborhood" celebrates the festival's roots.
Washington Post
19-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
The turbulent beauty of art nouveau is still all over culture
There is no train in 'Monaco • Monte-Carlo.' The railway ad instead pictures a woman, poised at the shore's edge. Encircled in rings of carmine- and blush-tinged blossoms, she looks up, hands held in wonder, her lips cherry red. Anticipation swells in the Alphonse Mucha poster, in the liquid folds of a satin skirt, in the stirring of plans unformed. This is not the world as it is, but as it could be. Mucha, the subject of a Phillips Collection survey, was a student of the world. As a child in Moravia, in the present-day Czech Republic, he spent his days poring over 'flowers, the neighbours' dogs and horses,' noting every curve and flourish, as he wrote years later. 'I tried not only to depict them, but also to preserve them.' Mucha's sketches are nimble, some ecstatic. One, of a man at rest in a high-backed chair, is impossibly fluid, his coiled mustache and tousled hair a flurry of razor-sharp slashes. His pastel 'Holy Night' is a furious study of cornflower and powder blues, veiled by a web of tissue-paper-thin streaks. Mucha examined life closely, intensely. He was, artist Charles Matlack Price observed, 'the most perfect and painstaking draftsman.' Mucha was a close observer of the world, drawing out the strange and fantastical. Art should project 'moral harmonies,' he professed; it should 'know how to charm.' In his pictures, he didn't bother with facial details. More interesting to him was capturing the movement, the verve of his subjects, suffusing them with luster. In one picture, he swapped out an actress's short, red curls for cascading blond tresses; in another, he elongated a model's fingers, coiling them around a fluted bouquet. His work is all affect, made 'to glorify beauty,' he said, to awaken the soul. This movement — the sweeping lines, rich patterning and swirling ornamentation — became an instantly recognizable element of art nouveau, the style Mucha helped lead to lasting popularity through 20th-century commercial art, global comics and counterculture. As an illustrator in fin de siècle Paris, Mucha saw his images reach wide audiences, especially images featuring the beloved French actress Sarah Bernhardt. His theater posters are wide awake. In one, for the Alexandre Dumas play 'The Lady of the Camellias,' he set Bernhardt against a violet ground, dappled with pearl-gray stars. As the title courtesan, she is forced to give up her lover, her death all but inevitable. She turns away, enveloped in cream-colored blooms. In 'Lorenzaccio,' Bernhardt is still more withdrawn. Draped in billowing opals, she is Lorenzo de' Medici, who kills the tyrant of Florence. Bernhardt here is steely, lost in thought before a gilded archway, a mint-green dragon snaked about her. Each captures what Mucha called the 'particular magic of her movements,' Bernhardt's sinuous lines and chilly, spellbinding gaze. There's much to gaze at in Mucha's pictures. Take 'Zodiac,' a woman in profile, glittering in syrupy crimson, teal and eggshell, her hair a spiral of copper. (Mucha was especially fond of redheads, writing in a 1908 article, 'A man admires a red-haired woman for the same reason that he papers the walls of his bachelor apartment red … because red is his favorite color.') He was unguarded, his work brimming with periwinkle-blue diadems and whirling arabesques, his studio overgrown with rococo tables and grand palms. The effect is thrilling, if slightly manic. He once lamented, 'I never had time to finish the work.' That energy carried over to Mucha's classroom. He was an in-demand teacher and charmer, earning 'a reputation as a kind of joker,' a student recalled. 'We had a circus.' His philosophy was simple: Art should stir the viewer, inviting them to a higher plane. The idea recurs in the show in a French-blue Grateful Dead cover — of a skeleton, crowned with bloodred rosettes — and a Pink Floyd print — of a castle floating through a scarlet- and yellow-soaked sky — the pictures at once conjuring and falling short of the Czech master. Mucha saw his work as a reprieve. People 'needed to breathe fresh air,' he maintained, 'to quench their thirst for beauty.' That splendor, edged in Mucha's prints with sumptuous brocades and rubies, may be what's missing from some of his many followers. As one pupil said, 'There are few who have been on this Earth like Mucha.' Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St., NW. 202-387-2151. Dates: Through May 18. Prices: $20; $15 for seniors; $12 for military personnel; $10 for students and teachers; free for members and visitors 18 and under. Admission is pay-what-you-wish daily from 4 p.m. to closing. On the third Thursday of the month, the museum stays open until 8 p.m. and admission is free after 4 p.m.
