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Dozens of homemade balloons fly during the days-long Ansor Kertek Balloon Culture Festival, which is back in full swing this year after a Covid hiatus in 2020 and 2021. Source
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National Tulip Day makes for a colourful splash in Amsterdam
January 22nd, 2023 
Awake Goy National Tulip Day makes for a colourful splash in Amsterdam’s Museumplein Square. The Netherlands is the world’s biggest tulip producer. Source
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM: Ancient Greek Sculptures were colourful, not white
July 16th, 2022 Awake Goy The Metropolitan Museum of New York is holding a revealing exhibition into Ancient Greek and Roman sculpture titled Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color till March 26, 2023. Visitors to the exhibition will be surprised to discover that contrary to popular belief, most sculptures in the ancient Mediterranean world were colorful. Paint, gilding, and inlaid materials… […]
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No Comments »Life In The Low Country: The Colourful Art of Gari Melchers
January 10th, 2021 Awake Goy Gari Melchers, ca. 1900. Photograph by Frank Scott Clark, Collection Macbeth Gallery records. I first became aware of Gari Melchers’ art thanks to one of his most well-known works entitled The Sermon (1886) in which we can see a young peasant girl falling asleep in church while listening to some soporific Sunday sermon delivered by […]
Artist raises awareness of endangered species with colourful murals
November 10th, 2020 Awake Goy On the wall of a residential street in Charlton, south London, Louis Masai puts the finishing touches to a striking large-scale mural of an orangutan. The British artist, known for his signature patchwork style, travels around the United Kingdom to paint colourful murals of animal species in decline or on the brink of extinction, to […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: artist, awareness, colourful, endangered, murals, raises, species No Comments »Russian artist fills Moscow museum with colourful latex sculptures
September 18th, 2020 Awake Goy Big, bright… and made out of latex. These sculptures and dresses were created by Russian artist Sasha Frolova. Her works include sculptures, music performances, and latex dress designs. “I think that the main job of an artist is to create a parallel reality,” says Frolova. “The parallel reality made from the artist’s creativity and filled […]
