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• Can Google’s Deep Dream become an art machine?

  28-03-2016 23:51
  
  The company’s neural network has created a slew of beautiful and at times terrifying images, and is being harnessed to create unique artwork Over the last weekend in February one of Google’s computer science departments, Research at Google, co-hosted Deep Dream: the art of neural networks, with the Gray Area Foundation, a San Francisco not-for-profit organisation that fosters collaborations between the arts and technology. The idea behind the show is that surely a technology company
  
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• Tacita Dean at Marian Goodman, New York

  28-03-2016 23:41 via artnews.com
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• Visitor Figures 2015

  28-03-2016 23:00
  The grand totals: exhibition and museum attendance numbers worldwide
  
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• Seth Price at 356 S. Mission Rd., Los Angeles

  28-03-2016 19:10 via artnews.com
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• ‘I Want to Make Africa Digestible in a Different Way’: Aida Muluneh on Her Show at David Krut Projects

  28-03-2016 19:00 via artnews.com
  Ethiopian photographer Aida Muluneh has lived the majority of her life in the Northern Hemisphere. Having left Ethiopia at a young age, Muluneh spent her early years bouncing between Yemen, England, and Cyprus before moving to Canada and later the … Read More
  
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• Chaim Stephenson obituary

  28-03-2016 18:06
  
  My husband, Chaim Stephenson, who has died aged 89, was a prolific sculptor who first began to develop his art while working for two decades as a shepherd in a kibbutz in Israel.Chaim was born in Liverpool to Russian Jewish immigrant parents, Karl and Gertrude (nee London). His father was a clarinettist whose original surname was Stupinsky, but which he changed when his conductor had trouble pronouncing it. After attending a local Jewish school, Chaim, whose given name was Harry, was a Bevin Boy
  
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• Consumer Reports: Erin Jane Nelson

  28-03-2016 18:00 via artnews.com
  Erin Jane Nelson is an artist living and working in Atlanta. She directs the space Species with Jason Benson and their dog Lilo Caraway. In the last year, Nelson has mounted solo exhibitions at Hester in New York and Document in … Read More
  
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• Rogues gallery: how photographers are targeting the 1%

  28-03-2016 16:24
  
  With his CCTV-style pictures of London’s financial elite, Daniel Mayrit joins a growing number of activist photographers dragging a veil from the CityWhen the London riots kicked off in 2011, Daniel Mayrit was living in Tottenham, and he witnessed violent events on his doorstep. A few months later, he received a police leaflet in the post featuring faces of the alleged participants, taken from CCTV cameras, which asked neighbours to help identify them. At the same time, banks were being ba
  
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• Morning Links: Frank Gehry Edition

  28-03-2016 14:54 via artnews.com
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• Drone footage of damage to ancient sites in Palmyra

  28-03-2016 11:00
  Russian state television aired drone video obtained from the Syrian Military Media Centre, showing aerial views of Palmyra after the Islamic State was forced from the ancient city.
  
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• Domestic disturbance: homes on the brink of a breakdown – in pictures

  28-03-2016 09:12
  
  Photographer Rubi Lebovitch has made a new kind of haunted house: homes that seem ordinary, but where flowers die, plants unpot themselves and people stick their hands in the toaster Continue reading...
  
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• Isil driven out of Palmyra

  28-03-2016 06:46
  
  Palmyra was retaken on Sunday by Syrian government forces that, with the help of Russian air strikes, drove out Islamic State militants that had seized the city and destroyed a number of ancient monuments there last year.
  The Syrian Directorate-General of Antiquities and Museums has received field reports and photographs showing the state of Roman sites in Palmyra, including the Theatre, Temple of Bel, and the Colonnade, which appear to be in “good condition”. Photographs of the nat
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs For 03.27.16

  28-03-2016 06:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  How Relevant is My Arts Organization? Take this Self-Test!
  Arts administrators worry. We worry about cash flow.  We worry about achieving and sustaining consensus.  We worry about attracting and retaining quality staff team.  We worry about logistics.  We worry about outstanding grant applications and… … read more
  AJBlog: Audience WantedPublished 2016-03-27
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  No vacation can deflect the march of time. I am sad to learn of the death yesterday
  
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• Mapping the Metropolis

  28-03-2016 01:56
  
  The Queens Museum—home of the Panorama of the City of New York, a room-sized scale model of the city—has launched a Kickstarter campaign to support a series of public programmes and newly commissioned works based on a new map of the city. The project was organised to coincide with the release of the forthcoming publication of Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas by Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, the third in a series of creative city guides that comprise essays and f
  
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• Philippe Apeloig on the art of the museum logo

  28-03-2016 01:29
  
  The new logo for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York had tongues wagging. So what’s in a logo, after all? Our sister paper Le Journal des Arts explored the topic last year with the graphic designer and typographer Philippe Apeloig, who has studios in Paris and New York and has designed logos for museums including the Smithsonian Institution, the Hirshhorn Museum and the new Louvre Abu Dhabi, as well as commercial clients like Showtime. Here is a condensed version of their interview
  
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