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• From Trump Nevermind babies to deep fakes: DALL-E and the ethics of AI art

  18-06-2022 22:00
  
  A neural network that can transform a text phrase into an artwork is transforming our understanding of creative thinking, but it opens new issuesGet our weekend culture and lifestyle email and listen to our podcastWant to see a picture of Jesus Christ laughing at a meme on his phone, Donald Trump as the Nevermind baby, or Karl Marx being slimed at the Nikelodeon Kid’s Choice awards?If you’ve been on Twitter or Instagram in the past couple of weeks, it’s been hard to miss odd-lo
  
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• ‘Death is birth’: Megan Cope on creating art out of catastrophe

  18-06-2022 22:00
  
  After losing 20 years of collected material in Lismore’s floods, the Quandamooka artist reflects on the climate crisis, colonialism and catharsisThe most significant venue of her career was about to host her most important work yet, but Quandamooka artist Megan Cope almost didn’t board the plane to attend its opening night in Paris.Cope couldn’t find her passport. But that wasn’t the main reason she was on the brink of choosing to stay in her Lismore studio rather than fl
  
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• Marc Bamuthi Joseph talks about the difference between engagement and empowerment

  18-06-2022 19:21 via artsjournal.com
  Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Vice President and Artistic Director of Social Impact at the Kennedy Center, articulates the difference between community engagement and empowerment through the arts.
  
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• Art inspired by nests and feathers – in pictures

  18-06-2022 18:00
  
  Artist Gail Turpin isn’t an expert on birds, but she loved hearing their song more clearly when walking her dog around Edinburgh as traffic stopped during lockdown. “I started gathering feathers – looking at them as if for the first time, studying their stylised patterns and asymmetry.” For this series, Nesting, currently on show at the Upright Gallery, Edinburgh, Turpin worked with whatever she had to hand – wood, fabric, paint – to recreate these foraged fea
  
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• Revealed: why Van Gogh’s ‘empty chair’ paintings were never shown together

  18-06-2022 13:58
  
  Sister-in-law hid one dedicated to Gauguin because of ‘anger at the French artist’s attacks on his former friend’Shortly before Vincent van Gogh cut off his left ear and had a breakdown after quarrelling with his fellow artist, Paul Gauguin, in the French city of Arles in 1888, he created a pair of extraordinary paintings. One, Gauguin’s Chair, depicts a couple of books and a lit candle discarded on an ornate armchair. The other, Van Gogh’s Chair, shows a tobacco pi
  
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• ‘I don’t like shooting people – cows are more honest’: Jeremy Piloquet’s best phone picture

  18-06-2022 11:00
  
  A trip to the dump resulted in a chance encounter with a dramatic herd of animalsJeremy Piloquet doesn’t like shooting people. Cows, he says, will always be more honest. “When I started out three years ago, I tried street photography, but I was so much more drawn to people’s shadows or silhouettes, their outline from behind – or, even better, when there was no one around. With social media and selfie culture, people are always trying to show their best smile, their best s
  
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• Destination masterpiece: 75 great artworks to see across the UK

  18-06-2022 09:00
  
  From a Nubian god in Edinburgh to a Banksy in Bristol, our critics choose the most intriguing and important paintings, sculptures, installations for you to take in this summer
  1. Lucas Cranach the Elder – Judith With the Head of Holofernes
  The Burrell Collection, GlasgowThe culture clash that underpinned Cranach’s art – German courtly splendour and strait-laced religious reformation – powers a magnetic imagining of Jewish heroine Judith displaying the head of Assyrian gen
  
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• From Lightyear to The First Lady: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

  18-06-2022 07:00
  
  Whether you fancy a trip to infinity and beyond or just want to see whether Viola Davies makes a convincing Michelle Obama, our critics have all bases coveredLightyear
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  You’ll already know Buzz Lightyear from the Toy Story films. Ever wondered where the idea for that toy came from, within the Toy Story universe? If so, this is the film for you, as it explores the origin story of the astronaut the toy was based on. Chris Evans leads a stellar voice cast. Continue reading...
  
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• Young Archibald prize 2022: winners announced for Australia’s cutest art prize – in pictures

  18-06-2022 04:00
  
  Now in its 10th year, the Young Archie is an art prize for young people that runs along with the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes at the Art Gallery of NSW. It invites artists between the ages of five and 18 to submit a portrait of ‘someone who is special to them and plays a significant role in their life’.For five-year-old Lev Vishnu Kahn, who won in the youngest category, that person was himself. ‘I’m not so interested in things to do with space or planets, like other
  
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• The Mindset Behind Censoring Others

  18-06-2022 00:01 via lareviewofbooks.org
  
  The censor is convinced that “some forms of expression are so vile or dangerous that they should be restricted, or so valuable that they should be compelled.” Consequently, censors “claim the moral sanction to speak for the collective.” – LA Review of Books
  
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