W5uper.net was an international artist group based in Austria that focused on artistic research at the intersection of media, arts, technology, and society. The group was established in 2003 by Markus Hafner, Ile Cvetkoski, Matthias Tarasiewicz, Karina Lackner, and Michal Wlodkowski and was responsible for developing the Coded Cultures festival series, as well as diverse projects and exhibitions on the intersection of arts and technology.
W198 Contemporary Arts and Learning, also known as the 198 Gallery or 198, is an art space and gallery in Railton Road, Brixton, London, that for more than three decades has had a strong commitment to diversity, equality and inclusion.
WAcademie Minerva is a Dutch art academy.
WThe American Writers Museum is a museum of American Literature and writing that opened in Chicago in May 2017. The museum was designed by Amaze Design of Boston.
WAn Lanntair is an arts centre in the town of Stornoway in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. The centre is home to a cinema, and art gallery. Previously located in the Town Hall, An Lanntair moved to its current new building overlooking the harbour in September 2005. This building features a 50-seater restaurant, art gallery, shop, and auditorium seating over two hundred. The auditorium houses the first cinema in Stornoway since 1995.
WThe Antirom art collective was formed in 1994 as a "protest against ill-conceived point-and-click 3D interfaces grafted onto re-purposed old content - video, text, images, audio and so on - and repackaged as multimedia". Its initial and most notable project, the Antirom CD-ROM, was funded by Arts Council of Great Britain and focussed on exploring interactivity in its own right, rather than being an interface to existing content such as video, audio and text. The group's process included producing many small interactive 'toys' that revolved around a single idea such as sound mixing, bouncing or scrolling elements. In the context of multimedia, at the time, this was a very different approach to the dominant "encyclopaedia" format such as Encarta. Antirom influenced several other designers such as Brendan Dawes who said of the group, "these guys changed things. Nothing was the same in the world of so called multimedia ever again. I remember seeing the amazing, different work for Levi's, which had a massive impact on me."
WThe Arts Council of Wales is a Welsh Government-sponsored body, responsible for funding and developing the arts in Wales.
WThe Asian American Writers' Workshop is a nonprofit literary arts organization founded in 1991 to support Asian American writers, literature and community. Cofounders Curtis Chin, Christina Chiu, Marie Myung-Ok Lee, and Bino A. Realuyo created AAWW because they were searching for New York City community of writers of color who could provide support for new writers.
WThe Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures (ASAIL) is a professional academic organization. It was founded in 1971 to promote the study, criticism, and research of American Indian literary traditions, both written and oral. Its journal, Studies in American Indian Literatures, has been the primary journal for the study of North American indigenous literature for over thirty years.
WBharatiya Bhasha Parishad, a Kolkata based literary organization was founded on 1975 by Sitaram Seksaria and Bhagirat H Kanodia with the aim of promoting Indian languages. It works for the development of Indian literature through publication of books on literature and implementation of various literary projects. It honors Indian writers for the contribution to Indian literature through their respective languages. The award consists of cash prize 1 lakh, a memento and a shawl.
WCastle Bryant Johnsen is a television computer artistry group, working specifically in the field of title sequences. The group, consisting of James Castle, Bruce Bryant and Carol Johnsen, has created opening titles for television series, including As the World Turns (1993-1999), ALF, Knots Landing (1989-1993), Growing Pains, Roseanne (1995-1997), Moonlighting, The X-Files, Cheers, JAG and Frasier.
WCatalyst Arts a non-profit artist-run space based in Belfast city centre.
WThe Dépôt des marbres of the French Ministry of Public Works was founded on île des Cygnes in Paris by French minister of finance Jean-Baptiste Colbert. It was used to store marble due to be allocated to artists with state commissions, as well as statues formerly displayed but removed for political and other reasons.
WDessau Institute of Architecture (DIA) is a graduate unit within the Faculty of Architecture and Building Engineering in Anhalt University of Applied Sciences in Dessau, Germany. The institute runs a four semester professional master's program in architecture, which is taught in English. The institute is located partly within the historic Bauhaus building designed by Walter Gropius. DIA's students come from more than thirty different countries, making it one of the most international schools in Europe. The institute was run by Alfred Jacoby until 2017. The current director is Prof. Ralf Niebergall.
WEaling Art College was a further education institution on St Mary's Road, Ealing, London, England. The site today is the Ealing campus of University of West London. In the early 1960s the School of Art was composed of Fashion, Graphics, Industrial Design, Photography and Fine Art Departments, and the college was attended by notable musicians Freddie Mercury, Ronnie Wood and Pete Townshend.
WEast European Comic Con (EECC) is a speculative fiction Fan convention held annually in Bucharest, Romania. It is East Europe's most important event dedicated to fans of comics, animations, video games, as well as TV series and movies.
WÉcole des beaux-arts de Montréal was an educational institution founded in Quebec in 1922. The Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society was instrumental in its creation. Its former Sherbrooke Street building now houses the Office québécois de la langue française.
WThe Estonian Children's Literature Centre is a centre devoted to children's literature from Estonia. It is located at Pikk 73 in Tallinn's old town and is open daily for visitors. The history of the centre dates back to 1933.
WFonderie Nationale des Bronzes was a 19th– and 20th–century artistic studio and foundry in Brussels, Belgium, that specialized in bronze sculptures. It became known for casting the works of Auguste Rodin, Rembrandt Bugatti, Paul Delvaux, and many others.
WThe Fylingdales Group of Artists is a group of Yorkshire-based artists in England.
WHall of Femmes is a project, based in Sweden, aiming to highlight the work of women in art direction and design. The designers Samira Bouabana and Angela Tillman Sperandio founded the project in 2009 and the intention was to revise the design history by talking about and paying tribute to the women who were involved in it. The business includes the Hall of Femmes book series where eight female pioneers in graphic design are portrayed. The project also includes seminars, screenings, talks, exhibitions and podcasts. Hall of Femmes also wants to inspire to a more equal industry and contribute to the future of the design scene. The business is widely established both in Sweden and internationally, and has been written up in magazines like the New York Times Magazine as well as Creative Review and Vanity Fair.
WThe Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre is located in Hong Kong Park, at 7A Kennedy Road above Central, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. It was opened by Leung Ding-Bong, then chairman of the Urban Council, on 28 April 1992.
WInconnu Art Group is the name of a Hungarian group of maverick fine artists from the communist and postcommunist eras. The original members were Bokros Péter, Molnár Tamás, Csécsei Mihály, Mészáros Bánk, Letenyei József, Sipos Mihály, Kopács Kovács Miklós, and Morva Ibolya. The foundation date of the group is unknown, but as Péter Bokros remembers, they started their common activities in 1978, Cegléd, but the name "inconnu" came later.
WL'Institut mémoires de l'édition contemporaine (IMEC), translated as The Institute for Contemporary Publishing Archives, is a French institution created in 1988 at the initiative of researchers and professionals in French publishing to gather archives and studies related to the main French publishing houses. It also collects material concerning French magazines and various other players in French literary life. It is a not for profit organisation. Since 2004 it has been based at the Ardenne Abbey near Caen, Normandy, where it has a library of 80,000 books, and more than 15 km of shelving. The reading room is open to researchers.
WThe International Sculpture Symposium movement was spearheaded by Karl Prantl in Austria in 1959. This initiative grew from the need to facilitate communication and exchange between members of the international sculpture community. It was also rooted in Cold War tensions, which lent a particular urgency to the need for cross-cultural dialogue on a person-to-person basis. The first international sculpture symposium took place in an abandoned stone quarry in Sankt Margarethen im Burgenland.
WIshida-ryū (石田流) is a school of Ikebana, or Japanese floral art.
WArtists Society De Kring was founded on September 23, 1922 by artists and intellectuals who looked for a home away from home in Amsterdam.
WKunststiftung NRW is a foundation created by the government of the German state North Rhine-Westphalia. It was established on September 12, 1989 and started operations in the spring of 1990. It is based in Düsseldorf, Germany.
WThe Lithuanian Artists' Association is a creative voluntary artistic organization in Lithuania, uniting professional painters and artists. It is the official association for artists in the country. The association works towards stimulating and promoting the work of unions, protecting their copyright, and preparing and participating in creative efforts such as galleries etc. From 1940-1941 it was known as the Lithuanian Artists' trade union, from 1989 again the Lithuanian Artists' Union or Association.
WMishō-ryū (未生流) is a school of Ikebana, or Japanese floral art.
WN55 is a Copenhagen-based Scandinavian art collective which was founded in 1994. They work with art and everyday life. Over the years, N55 have achieved international recognition for their projects. All of N55's work is freely accessible; their books, manuals and images can be seen online and are not copyrighted.
WThe National Arts Council of South Africa (NAC) is the official arts council for the Republic of South Africa. The NAC was set in 1997 by an act of the South African Parliament(Act No 56 of 1977).
WThe National Arts Council of Zimbabwe (NACZ) is the official arts council for Zimbabwe. They award the annual National Arts Merit Awards (NAMA) in recognition of outstanding achievements in the arts and culture.
WThe National Museum of Taiwan Literature is a museum located in Tainan, Taiwan. The museum researches, catalogs, preserves, and exhibits literary artifacts. As part of its multilingual, multi-ethnic focus, it holds a large collection of local works in Taiwanese, Japanese, Mandarin and Classical Chinese.
WThe National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba is a social, cultural and professional organization of writers, musicians, actors, painters, sculptors, and artist of different genres. It was founded on August 22, 1961, by the Cuban poet, Nicolas Guillen. Initially their objective was uniting the intellectuals within the young Cuban Revolution to maintain a genuine Cuban culture. The group issued La Gaceta de Cuba beginning in 1962. Cuban violinist and professor Evelio Tieles was President of the Music Section from 1977 to 1984.
WOhara-ryū (小原流) is a school of Ikebana, or Japanese floral art.
WThe Pastel Society is an art society, based in London, which promotes the use of pastel painting in contemporary art, through exhibitions, workshops, demonstrations and lectures.
WThe Penwith Society of Arts is an art group formed in St Ives, Cornwall, England, UK, in early 1949 by abstract artists who broke away from the more conservative St Ives School. It was originally led by Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson, and included members of the Crypt Group of the St Ives Society, including Peter Lanyon and Sven Berlin. Other early members included: Leonard Fuller, Isobel Heath, Alexander Mackenzie, John Wells, Bryan Wynter, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, David Haughton, Denis Mitchell, and the printer Guido Morris. Herbert Read was invited to be the first president.
WThe Rijksmuseum Research Library is the largest public art history research library in the Netherlands. The library is part of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. The profile of the library collection parallels that of the museum. The online catalogue contains over 400,000 monographs, 3,400 periodicals and 90,000 art sales catalogues. About 50,000 art sales catalogues published before 1989 are not yet entered in the online catalogue. The collection grows, on average, by 10,000 books, auction catalogues, and periodicals every year.
WThe Royal Female School of Art was a professional institution for the training of women in art and design. It was founded in 1842, as part of the Government School of Design, predecessor of the Royal College of Art.
WThe Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, commonly called the Royal Academy, is located in Stockholm, Sweden. An independent organization that promotes the development of painting, sculpture, architecture, and other fine arts, it is one of several Swedish Royal Academies. The Royal Institute of Art, an art school that was once an integral part of the Academy, was broken out in 1978 as an independent entity directly under the supervision of the Ministry of Education.
WRussian Academy of Arts is the State scientific Institution of Russian Federation, eligible heir to the USSR Academy of Arts. RAKh is the public cultural Institution—a counterpart of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the field of fine arts, architecture, decorations, design and art education. A founder of RAKh is the Government of the Russian Federation.
WRussian Telegraph Agency, abbr. ROSTA, was the state news agency in Soviet Russia (1918-35). After the creation of Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union in 1925, it remained the news agency of Soviet Russia. Its name was associated with Rosta windows.
WThe Scriblerus Club was an informal association of authors, based in London, that came together in the early 18th century. They were prominent figures in the Augustan Age of English letters. The nucleus of the club included the satirists Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope. Other members were John Gay, John Arbuthnot, Henry St. John and Thomas Parnell. The group was founded in 1714 and lasted until the death of the founders, finally ending in 1745. Pope and Swift are the two members whose reputations and work have the most long-lasting influence. Working collaboratively, the group created the persona of Martinus Scriblerus, through whose writings they accomplished their satirical aims. Very little of this material, however, was published until the 1740s. Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer occasionally joined the club for meetings, though he is not known to have contributed to their literary output. He, along with Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, contributed to the literary productions of the Club.
WSpiritus Progenitum is an international humanitarian arts and literary festival held annually in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It exclusively showcases art and literature from the Former Yugoslavia.
WThe Tokyo Junior Orchestra Society (東京ジュニアオーケストラソサエティー) was established in April 1994 by Fuminori “Maro” Shinozaki, the Principal Concertmaster of the NHK Symphony Orchestra. Orchestra members are instructed by members of professional orchestras and university instructors.
WTools for Action was an informal art collective working on the intersection of art and activism. As of 2019 it is formalized as Stichting Tools for Action Foundation. It acts as collaboration platform between artists, educators, activists and others interested in making and interventions with inflatable sculptures. Tools for Action aims to practice alternative forms of social engagement and resistance and open the way for experimentation.
WUkrainian Association of Professional Photographers is a free public organization established to represent professional photographers from Ukraine in the international photographic community, to protect their interests and rights at national and international level. One of the goals of the Association is also the certification of professional photographers from Ukraine in compliance with European standards for the purpose.
WUNIMA was founded in Prague in 1929. In 1981, the French puppeteer Jacques Félix moved UNIMA's headquarters to Charleville-Mézières, France, location of the Festival Mondial des Théâtres de Marionnettes since 1972. UNIMA is affiliated to UNESCO and it is a member of the International Theatre Institute.
WUtopia Lda is a Portuguese design firm providing services in architecture, town planning, objects design, engineering and web design. Its main goal is to create a sustainable environment.
WThe Verbal Arts Centre is based in Derry, Northern Ireland, and is a centre for the development of the verbal arts and literacy. It was established in 1992 as an educational charity. In 2000 it moved to the First Derry School, a listed building.
WYellow Arrow was a public art project created by Christopher Allen, Brian House, and Jesse Shapins that was active from 2004-2006. The project is an important example of locative media and mobile phone art and draws concepts from psychogeography.