Arts planner for July 19

USC Professor of Piano wins arts fellowship

Pianist Marina Lomazov has been named the South Carolina Arts Commission Music Performance Fellow, a title that comes with an unrestricted award of $5,000.

Lomazov is an Ira McKissick Koger Professor of Piano at the University of South Carolina School of Music. She is also the founder and artistic director of the Southeastern Piano Festival.

The South Carolina Arts Commission created fellowships to recognize and reward the artistic achievements of South Carolina's exceptional individual artists. Fellowships were awarded to four artists in South Carolina, with awards for visual arts, craft, music composition and music performance.

‘Thoughts on Contemporary Art, Especially Painting’

701 Center for Contemporary Art presents a free lecture, “Thoughts on Contemporary Art, Especially Painting,” by New York City art critic and artist Peter Plagens at 1 p.m. Sunday. Plagens will be in town to serve as the national juror on the panel for the 701 CCA South Carolina Biennial. He writes a bi-weekly art-review column for the Wall Street Journal and was art critic for Newsweek from 1989–2003.

Broadway tickets on sale

Broadway in Columbia has announced its 2015-16 season lineup, and tickets go on sale at 9 a.m. Monday. “The Illusionists,” “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” “Once,” “Celtic Woman” and “42nd Street” are all coming to the Koger Center for the Arts. Tickets will be available at the Koger Center box office at 1051 Greene St. or by phone at 803-251-2222. For more information visit www.BroadwayinColumbia.com.