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NEW YORK, Sep 4, 2003 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The Buckingham Hotel has announced that the fifteen semifinalists of the first annual "Buckingham Prize for the Expression of Music through Art" will be unveiled today at 5pm at the New York Studio School on 8 West 8th Street in New York by internationally acclaimed painter and New York Studio School Dean Graham Nickson, Ira Goldberg, Executive Director of The Arts Students League of New York, and Stephen Shapiro, Managing Partner of the Buckingham Hotel. The paintings will remain on display at the school until the last week of September.
The Buckingham Hotel will award $17,000 in prize money to the three overall winners in a ceremony in November. The three finalists of the competition will be chosen in October 2003. Their works will be unveiled and shown publicly at the Art Students League, and later as part of the Buckingham`s permanent art collection. The First Prize work of art will be displayed by the Buckingham Hotel in its grand lobby. Three cash purchase prizes will be awarded upon the conclusion of judging, with $10,000 going to the First Prize winner and prizes of $5,000 and $2000 going to second and third place winners.
The Buckingham Prize, a juried art competition open to New York`s seven largest art and design institutions, was created to promote painting visualizing music, in all its forms.
The Buckingham Hotel, located on 101 West 57th Street across from Carnegie Hall, sponsors this competition because music is woven throughout the history of the hotel (it was the last home of the composer Ignacy Paderewski, among others). When this history is combined with West 57th Street`s own artistic tradition, `musical artwork` is the natural result. The Buckingham Hotel has in fact commissioned original art to celebrate precisely this, including a magnificent 80 square foot stained glass arch called the Dancing King which adorns the entranceway, and eleven unique mixed media works created exclusively from musical instruments are recessed into the lobby`s walls to express the music and art relationship. |
