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• AI Image Generators Have Already Changed The Visual Art World

  20-09-2022 23:31 via nymag.com
  Deepfakes graduated from a looming threat to something an enterprising teenager can put together for a TikTok, and chatbots are occasionally sending their creators into crisis. – New York Magazine
  
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• William Kentridge review – the sound and the fury

  20-09-2022 19:32
  Royal Academy, London
  Forty years of work whirl before us, the violence of apartheid, inequality and brutality underpinning it all, as Kentridge’s drawn images merge into animations, filmed performance and sculptureAstonishments and violences fill the Royal Academy’s survey show of Johannesburg-born artist William Kentridge. Glimpses of hangings and torture, sex in the pool, old footage of a white hunter skipping towards the rhino he has just downed in order to give it a final shot i
  
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• Shockingly, Brad Pitt turns out to be a very fine sculptor

  20-09-2022 16:17
  Pitt is not the first star to try his hand at art, but his finely wrought, intelligent reflections of American violence make him one of the very bestI would assume Brad Pitt has a pretty enviable life, even in the throes of his messy divorce from Angelina Jolie. And dropping into a museum in Finland to exhibit his sculptures alongside works by his pals Nick Cave and Thomas Houseago sounds like another cool extension of it. So it would only be fair to the rest of us if he fell flat on his face li
  
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• Longest single-volume book in the world goes on sale – and is impossible to read

  20-09-2022 13:33
  The 21,450-page volume of manga series One Piece is physically unreadable, to highlight how comics now exist as commoditiesA limited edition single volume of the long-running manga One Piece is being billed as the longest book in existence.At 21,450 pages, it is physically impossible to read, making it less of a book and more of a sculpture. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘The comedy was a distraction’: Jim Moir on leaving Vic Reeves behind to paint rocks all day

  20-09-2022 11:18
  Edging away from the spotlight as a comedian, Moir has devoted himself to painting birds, rocks and punch-ups in dinghies. Is he one of Britain’s most prolific artists? Back when he was performing as Vic Reeves, a bit of hubris was part of the joke. The comedian would bill himself as “Britain’s best light entertainer”, which teed up his act perfectly: a mix of faded variety show glamour and thin-skinned pomposity (with a dose of surrealism too). But nowadays, the man know
  
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• Maria Bartuszová review – a world of misshapen planets and alien art forms

  20-09-2022 08:01
  Tate Modern, LondonThe Prague-born artist, who made wildly experimental art under the nose of the communist authorities, began casting her weirdly entrancing sculptures from children’s party balloons
  Ghosts and bones and sinister metamorphoses make Maria Bartuszová an astonishing discovery. This artist who was born in Prague in 1936 and spent most of her adult life in the now defunct state of Czechoslovakia, made wildly experimental art under the nose of the communist authorities, e
  
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• ‘Ron’s Place’: drive to save Birkenhead palace of outsider art

  20-09-2022 07:00
  Ron Gittins, who died in 2019, left behind a rented flat decorated and piled high with artworksThe front room of the late Ron Gittins’s flat has a Pompeii Villa of the Mysteries vibe to it. The hall could be an Egyptian tomb. The bathroom, an aquarium fever dream. Handmade fireplaces include a lion 3 metres tall, a minotaur and – in the kitchen – a Roman altar.The interior of Gittins’s home would stop you in your tracks anywhere. The fact that noone knew it was there, tha
  
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• Brad Pitt makes surprise debut as a sculptor at Finland art gallery

  20-09-2022 02:59
  Actor appeared alongside Australian musician Nick Cave and British sculptor Thomas Houseago to reveal his first ever public art exhibitionBrad Pitt has unveiled his sculptures in a lakeside art museum in Finland as part of the actor’s first-ever public art exhibition that came as an unexpected surprise to the Nordic country.Located in Finland’s third-largest city of Tampere, this is the first time the “largely self-taught” US star presented his sculptures to the public, t
  
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