Pierre Henri

The 2017 nominees for the Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards have been announced. These annual awards are regarded amongst the most valued and prestigious in the South African performing arts industry. This year's ceremony will take place on 18 March at 17:30 at the Baxter Theatre Centre in Cape Town and promises to be an 'Elegantly Extravagant' evening.

Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts has announced events for February 2018. See the full schedule below:

Food Allergy Research & Education (FARE) will hold the 20th Anniversary of the Food Allergy Ball on Monday, December 4, 2017 at The Pierre in New York City. A special performance will be given by Tony Award winner Rachel Bay Jones (Broadway's Dear Evan Hansen).

Amee Lekas's DIE DANS VAN DIE WATERMEID, which means 'the dance of the water maiden,' which only existed on paper at the first editions of Kunste Onbeperk's script market, Teksmark, in Cape Town last year, will soon come to life as a fully-fledged production at the Baxter Theatre Centre.

Jaco Bouwer, the acclaimed and multiple award-winning designer and director, tackles one of the Baxter Theatre Centre's flagship productions for 2017, Peter Weiss's contemporary classic MARAT/SADE. The production will play the Baxter Flipside from 23 February - 25 March at 19:30 nightly.

The 51st Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards were presented at the Baxter Theatre Centre in Cape Town on Sunday night in a ceremony that highlighted the theme of 'new beginnings'. With the main event taking place in the newly refurbished Baxter Theatre, this year's winners all received a newly designed medallion. The evening also aimed to present to the audience of theatre-makers, performers, designers, critics and patrons a fusion of cultures.

The 51st annual Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards has announced its 2015 nominees, reflecting a rich realm of theatre talent seen on stages throughout the Western Cape. The glamorous awards ceremony will take place on Sunday, 20 March, at 18:00 at the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town and will personify a fusion of cultures, food and Fleur du Cap win

The only decorative cycle on public display in the UK by one of the most influential artists in the development of landscape painting and a key inspiration to the Impressionists, will remain on view for future generations to enjoy after being purchased by the National Gallery with the support of the Art Fund.

Ethos Contemporary Art today announced that Amazon.com has approved the gallery to join Amazon Art, a new online fine art sales channel for the world's largest e-retailer. Ethos within Amazon Art will be offering original fine art from world-class artists, such as Pierre Henri Matisse, Georgeana Ireland, Lisa Palombo, Dick Marconi, and several others, on Dec. 1st., just before Cyber Monday, the single largest online commerce day of the year.

The European Film Academy has announced the nominees for the European Discovery Award, also known as the Prix Fipresci

Over the last 40 years, one of the most significant developments in the study of 19th-century European paintings has been a growing appreciation of the importance of plein-air (outdoor) oil sketches to the Realist and Impressionist landscape aesthetic. In 2003 The Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired from New York connoisseur Wheelock Whitney a comprehensive survey of sketches painted between 1785 and 1850 by many of the most notable artists of the French school who worked in this medium. The Path of Nature: French Paintings from the Wheelock Whitney Collection, 1785-1850 will be held on the tenth anniversary of this major acquisition.

For its annual summer festival of contemporary opera, music and theatre, the Almeida Theatre will present a programme which includes the London premiere of An Ocean of Rain, a specially commissioned opera by Yannis Kyriakides and Daniel Danis, the European premiere of Adam Rapp's Nocturne and British African Theatre Company Tiata Fahodzi's first week long residency at the Almeida.

New Book: 'Edith Bouvier Beale of Grey Gardens, A Life in Pictures' available now.