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• 2,500 Strip On Australian Beach For Spencer Tunick Piece On Skin Cancer

  29-11-2022 23:28 via artsjournal.com
  The installation is American photographer Spencer Tunick’s latest project, aimed at encouraging Australians to get regular skin checks. Legislation was changed to allow public nudity on the beach for the first time. Australia is the country in the world worst affected by skin cancer. – BBC
  
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• UK Museum Returns Trove Of Bronzes To Benin

  29-11-2022 23:01 via bbc.com
  The Horniman Museum in south-east London is returning 72 items, including so-called Benin Bronzes, to Nigerian ownership – making it the first in the UK to officially take such action on this scale. – BBC
  
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• Tom Phillips obituary

  29-11-2022 16:29
  Painter, printmaker and collagist known for his extraordinary breadth of involvement in the artsIn 1966, the artist Tom Phillips, who has died aged 85 after a long illness, walked into a junk shop on Peckham Rye in south London and bought a novel called A Human Document by the Victorian writer William Hurrell Mallock.The choice of book was random. “I’d decided it should the first one I picked up that cost thruppence, and this one did,” Phillips recalled in an interview to mark
  
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• TechScape: Enter the multiverse – the chat-room game made of AI art

  29-11-2022 12:40
  An exciting multiplayer Discord game asks you to find things in the multiverse through an AI image generator. The hallucinatory results could mark a new frontier for AI artDon’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article hereThe Bureau of Multiversal Arbitration is an unusual workplace. Maude Fletcher’s alright, though she needs to learn how to turn off caps lock in the company chat. But trying to deal with Byron G Snodgrass is like handling an energetic pood
  
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• Enter the multiverse: the chat-room game made of AI art

  29-11-2022 12:40
  An exciting multiplayer Discord game asks you to find things in the multiverse through an AI image generator. The hallucinatory results could mark a new frontier for AI artDon’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article hereThe Bureau of Multiversal Arbitration is an unusual workplace. Maude Fletcher’s alright, though she needs to learn how to turn off caps lock in the company chat. But trying to deal with Byron G Snodgrass is like handling an energetic pood
  
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