Lavazza Commission Christy Lee Rogers
Lavazza asked Christy Lee Rogers to shoot the cover for their legendary calendar - previous artists who have shot Lavazza's calendar include Helmut Newton, David LaChapelle and Annie Leibovitz. Lavazza even took inspiration for their entire campaign, which is called The New Humanity, from Christy's latest series - Human.
Check out the 2 minute film Lavazza made about Christy here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XisFTWAQUI0
And their campaign here: calendar.lavazza.com
Royal Academy & Grayson Perry Select Mila Fürstová for Exhibition
Turner Prize winning legend Grayson Perry handpicked Mila Fürstová's "All the Rivers that Flow Through Me" for one of the prominent walls in the Royal Academy and the museum itself selected her work out of 12,000 entries to be the image to represent the Summer Exhibition digitally. The Evening Standard prominently featured and mentioned Mila in their magazine article on the show.
Christy Lee Rogers Launches New Series at SuperBowl
Sony World Open Photography Award Winner, Christy Lee Rogers, launched her new series Luminescence at a celebrity SuperBowl party to raise money for Cancer charity.
Christy exhibited an art installation on a 15 meter screen at the party as well as auctioning one of her works to benefit the charity.
Read about it here: www.christyleerogers.com/2023- ... g-game-big-give
Artmag Features A Gallery's Call for Canary Wharf Drawings to be Placed in Museum
Artmag published a story stating: "An appeal has been launched to have the original artist’s impressions that helped secure funding for London’s landmark Canary Wharf development, adopted for a UK museum. The late American architectural illustrator Carlos Diniz (1928 – 2001) made the drawings in 1986, which appeared in prospective brochures and newspaper supplements and led to securing approval and funding for the vast financial-sector development on defunct docklands on the Thames. His estate is now making a bid to find a philanthropic buyer to purchase the selection of nineteen drawings in order that they be placed in one of London’s most important museums, as yet unspecified.
In 2021, the American entrepreneur Mark Cuban purchased a series of Diniz’ drawings for the World Trade Center – drawn in 1963, ten years before the twin towers became operational – and donated them to the Smithsonian Design Museum in New York."
See the article here: artmag.co.uk/see-artists-impression-canary-wharf-drawings-appeal-launched/
Mila Fürstová Wins Westminster Council Competition - Art on Central London Building
Mila Fürstova unveiled her “Motherhood” on the site of the old Queen Charlotte’s Maternity Hospital in central London - it’s 20 meters high and will be seen by over a hundred thousand commuters a day.
Míla won Westminster City Council’s competition for the commission by concentrating on how this building was the first London hospital to treat unmarried women, even winning royal patronage to achieve that noble goal.
Raoof Haghighi Wins Royal Society of Miniature Painters Award
Raoof Haghighi's painting "Linda" won first prize in the Royal Society of Miniature Portrait Painters Award (their patron is King Charles). Raoof has previously exhibited his regular size paintings with the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and multiple times at the National Portrait Gallery.
Evening Standard
The Evening Standard reports on Anne Marie White's nude sculpture in A Gallery.
The BBC also reported on it both on Radio 2 and the BBC Worldwide website:
Ambassador Marie Chatardová Opens A Gallery's Embassy Show for Mila Fürstová
A Gallery staged the UK launch of the legendary Czech books Kytice and Babicka, illustrated by Mila Fürstová at the Czech Embassy, London. the evening was inaugerated by Ambassador Marie Chatardová and attended by a Member of Parliament and many members of the Evening Standard Influential List and Sunday Times Rich List.
The Czech Embassy show was generously sponsored by Matt and Conchita Saronsen.
Coldplay Open our Show for Mila Furstova's Ghost Stories Art
We staged and hosted a show for Mila Fürstová's album art for the world-wide number one hit album Ghost Stories, with 100% of proceeds of sales to charity, and the entire band of Coldplay attended and opened the show which raised well over £100,000 for the children's charity.
See: www.coldplay.com/ghost-stories-art-exhibition-coming-to-london/
Image: Mila backstage at the Royal Albert Hall where Coldplay and Mila signed the charity artworks which featured at the show.
Photo credit: Chris Salmon
Carlos Diniz Collected by MOMA San Francisco
Carlos Diniz did extensive work for the city of San Francisco, so the Museum of Modern Art San Francisco honoured him by adding this drawing of San Francisco State College Student Union Center by Moshe Safdie to their collection: www.sfmoma.org/artist/Carlos_Diniz/