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2014 In Art
The year 2014 in art involved various significant events. Events * A series of annual editathons entitled art + Feminism commences. Held by members of the Wikipedia community, they are undertaken in order to try to level off a gender disparity gap on the subject of the visual arts on the internet reference tool's site. * January 22 – The value of Canada's leading contemporary art award, the Sobey Art Award, is increased to a total of $100,000. * February 7 – The British National Gallery in London announces its first ever purchase of a major American painting, George Bellows' ''Men of the Docks'' (1912 in art, 1912). * February 12 – The discovery of two new portraits, presumed to depict William Shakespeare, the Wörlitz portrait and the Boaden portrait, is announced by German scholar Hildegard Hammerschmidt-Hummel. * February 16 – Dominican-born Miami-based artist Pérez Art Museum Miami#Maximo Caminerot, Maximo Caminero walks into the recently opened Pérez Art Museum Miami ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Editathons
An edit-a-thon (sometimes written editathon) is an event where some editors of online community, online communities such as Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap (also known as a "mapathon"), and LocalWiki edit and improve a specific topic or type of content. The events typically include basic editing training for new editors and may be combined with a more general social meetup. The word is a portmanteau of "edit" and "marathon". An edit-a-thon can either be "in-person" or online or a blended version of both. If it is not in-person, it is usually called a "virtual edit-a-thon" or "online edit-a-thon". Locations (in-person events) Wikipedia edit-a-thons have taken place at Wikimedia chapter headquarters; accredited educational institutions, including Sonoma State University, Arizona State University, Middlebury College, and the University of Victoria; scientific research institutions such as the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Salk Institute for Biological Sciences; and cultural inst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
February 16
Events Pre-1600 * 1249 – Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khagan of the Mongol Empire. * 1270 – The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Livonian Order in the Battle of Karuse. 1601–1900 * 1630 – Dutch forces led by Hendrick Lonck capture Olinda in what was to become part of Dutch Brazil. * 1646 – Battle of Torrington, Devon: The last major battle of the First English Civil War. * 1699 – First Leopoldine Diploma is issued by the Holy Roman Emperor, recognizing the Greek Catholic clergy enjoyed the same privileges as Roman Catholic priests in the Principality of Transylvania. * 1742 – Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, becomes British Prime Minister. * 1796 – Colombo in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) falls to the British, completing their invasion of Ceylon. * 1804 – First Barbary War: Stephen Decatur leads a raid to burn the pirate-held frigate . * 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
April 26
Events Pre-1600 * 1336 – Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascends Mont Ventoux. * 1478 – The Pazzi family attack on Lorenzo de' Medici in order to displace the ruling Medici family kills his brother Giuliano during High Mass in Florence Cathedral. * 1564 – Playwright William Shakespeare is baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England (date of birth is unknown). 1601–1900 * 1607 – The Virginia Company colonists make landfall at Cape Henry. * 1721 – A massive earthquake devastates the Iranian city of Tabriz. *1777 – Sybil Ludington, aged 16, allegedly rode to alert American colonial forces to the approach of British regular forces *1794 – Battle of Beaumont during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition. * 1802 – Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France. *1803 – Thousands of m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Robinson (artist)
Walter Rossiter Robinson III (July 18, 1950 – February 9, 2025), also known as Mike Robinson, was an American painter, publisher, art curator, and art writer, based in New York City. He was called a Neo-pop painter, as well as a member of the 1980s Pictures Generation. Robinson was the subject of the 632 page book ''A Kiss Before Dying: Walter Robinson – A Painter of Pictures and Arbiter of Critical Pleasures'' by Richard Milazzo published in 2021 with an Italian translation by Ginevra Quadrio Curzio. Background Robinson was born in Wilmington, Delaware, on July 18, 1950, and was raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He moved to New York City to attend Columbia University in 1968. Subsequently, he graduated from the Whitney Independent Study Program in 1973. He lived in SoHo in the 1970s and on Ludlow Street on the Lower East Side in the 1980s and 1990s, and lived uptown with a studio in Long Island City in Queens. Painting career Robinson was a postmodern painter whose work featur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artspace (website)
Artspace is an online marketplace for contemporary art. The company is based in New York City, New York and was launched in 2011. The site in 2013 had over $100 million in art for sale on its marketplace and had received investment from Accelerator Ventures and Metamorphic Ventures. The company was founded in 2010 by Christopher E. Vroom and Catherine Levene. Levene was named as one of the top 10 female CEOs to watch in 2011 by the ''Huffington Post''. History Christopher E. Vroom and Catherine Levene co-founded Artspace in late 2010. Vroom, an avid art collector and patron of the arts, is credited as the vision behind the business, who recognized the potential to create a platform offering quality fine art to a broad audience. Levene stated in a 2011 interview that she felt e-commerce art marketplaces could become the norm for people interested in buying art. She also stated that it could result in a similar market shift for buying art, as that which took place with clothing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
April 8
Events Pre-1600 * 217 – Roman emperor Caracalla is assassinated and is succeeded by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus. * 876 – The Battle of Dayr al-'Aqul saves Baghdad from the Saffarids. * 1139 – Roger II of Sicily is excommunicated by Innocent II for supporting Anacletus II as pope for seven years, even though Roger had already publicly recognized Innocent's claim to the papacy. * 1232 – Mongol–Jin War: The Mongols begin their siege on Kaifeng, the capital of the Jin dynasty. * 1250 – Seventh Crusade: Ayyubids of Egypt capture King Louis IX of France in the Battle of Fariskur. * 1271 – In Syria, sultan Baibars conquers the Krak des Chevaliers. 1601–1900 * 1605 – The city of Oulu, Finland, is founded by Charles IX of Sweden. * 1730 – Shearith Israel, the first synagogue in continental North America, is dedicated. * 1812 – Czar Alexander I, the Russian Emperor and the Grand Duke o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dimitris Daskalopoulos
Dimitris Daskalopoulos, (; born 1957, Athens) is a Greek entrepreneur who is known as founder and chairman of DAMMA Holdings SA, a financial services and investment company. He served as the Chairman of the Board of the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV) for 8 consecutive years (2006-2014). He is SEV’s Honorary President. Career From 1983 to 2007, Daskalopoulos was the principal owner, Chairman and CEO of Delta Holdings/Vivartia SA, Greece’s largest food conglomerate. In 2007, Greece’s Marfin Investment Group bought 30 percent of Vivartia for 550 million euros ($758 million) from Daskalopoulos and Spyridon Theodoropoulos, its founding shareholders. In addition to his business activities, Daskalopoulos served as Vice President of the Confederation of European Business from 2013 to 2015, under the leadership of its president Emma Marcegaglia. In 2016, founded diaNEOsis, a research think tank in Greece, which commissions studies and makes policy proposals on the major ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Hammons
David Hammons (born July 24, 1943) is an American artist, best known for his works in and around New York City and Los Angeles during the 1970s and 1980s. Early life David Hammons was born in 1943 in Springfield, Illinois, the youngest of ten children being raised by a single mother. This dynamic caused great financial strain on his family during his childhood; he later stated that he is uncertain how they managed to 'get by' during this time. Although not inclined academically, Hammons showed an early talent for drawing and art; however the ease at which these practices came to him caused him to develop disdain for it. In 1962 he moved to Los Angeles, where he started attending Chouinard Art Institute (now CalArts) from 1966 to 1968 and the Otis Art Institute from 1968 to 1972. He was never officially enrolled there, but Charles White allowed him to attend night classes. There he was influenced by artists such as Charles White (artist), Charles White, Bruce Nauman, John Baldes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Cannon (writer)
Steve Cannon (April 10, 1935 – July 7, 2019) was an American writer and the founder of the cultural organization A Gathering of the Tribes (Cultural Organization), A Gathering of the Tribes. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and moved to New York City in 1962. Early life Cannon was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and moved to New York City in 1962. Career During the civil rights era, he was a member of the Umbra (poets), Society of Umbra, a collective of Black writers. Cannon taught humanities at Medgar Evers College, helping to integrate the public school system in New York City. In 1969, Cannon penned the novel ''Groove, Bang, and Jive Around'', which author Ishmael Reed called the precursor to rap and author Darius James called in the New York Press, "an underground classic of such legendary stature that New York's black cognoscenti have transformed the work into an urban myth." Cannon, along with Joe Johnson (poet), Joe Johnson and Ishmael Reed, began an independ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miami New Times
The ''Miami New Times'' is a newspaper published in Miami, Florida, United States, and distributed every Thursday. It primarily serves the Miami metropolitan area, and is headquartered in Miami's Wynwood Art District. Overview It was acquired by Village Voice Media, then known as New Times Media, in 1987, when it was a fortnightly newspaper called the ''Wave''. The paper has won numerous awards, including a George Polk Award for coverage of the Major League steroid scandal in 2014 and first place in 2008 among weekly papers from the Investigative Reporters and Editors for stories about the Julia Tuttle Causeway sex offender colony. In 2010, the paper garnered international attention when it published a story by Brandon K. Thorp and Penn Bullock which revealed that anti-gay activist George Alan Rekers had hired a male prostitute to accompany him on a trip to Europe. In September 2012, Village Voice Media executives Scott Tobias, Christine Brennan, and Jeff Mars bought Village Vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
