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• A Project To Connect Funders With Chicago Black Dance Companies

  28-08-2023 23:20 via nytimes.com
  
  “We are such a siloed city. We’re each in our little parts of Chicago trying to get funding, we all have our heads down. We know of each other and we love each other and we share dancers, but there was never an intentional moment when we came up for air.” – The New York Times
  
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• Every Photo We Take Is Aided By AI. So How Much Before Its More AI Than Us?

  28-08-2023 22:22 via theguardian.com
  
  “The increased attenuation of human creativity from the actual generation of the final work will prompt challenging questions regarding how much human input is necessary to qualify the user of an AI system as an ‘author’ of a generated work.” – The Guardian
  
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• Beyond the canvas: celebrating Lichtenstein’s lesser-known sculptures

  28-08-2023 21:55
  
  A new exhibition aims to shine a light on the pop artist’s sculptural work, showing another side to his geniusWith their bold, primary colors, in-your-face composition and comic book aesthetic, Roy Lichtenstein’s paintings are instantly recognizable. An icon of pop art, his work fused the high with the low, creating art that was energetic, broadly appealing and very, very fun.Compared with the paintings, Lichtenstein’s sculptures have received relatively less attention, a fact
  
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• ‘An Aussie icon’: burnt-out car wreck begins 4,356km journey across Western Australia

  28-08-2023 17:00
  
  The 1975 Mazda ute has been transformed into a wall-of-sound instrument and canvas for Gija stories as part of a 12-stop production travelling from the Kimberley to PerthGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailThey appear out of nowhere. A series of rusted car wrecks baked into the red dirt flanking the Great Northern Highway near Warmun, a small Indigenous township in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Some are wreathed in a tangle of weeds, others so molten the earth might swallow t
  
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• Design news: Ghana’s art stars, dark skies in Denmark and artistic uniforms

  28-08-2023 15:00
  
  Looking forward to this year’s London Design Festival, designer Faye Toogood and a new book celebrating Ghanian artists This autumn brings a fantastic variety of UK events celebrating and showcasing the creative industries. As well as London Design Festival in September, there’s also the British Ceramics Biennial in Stoke-on-Trent. October brings the Design Council’s annual festival Design For Planet and the British Textile Biennial. Make sure you support your local craft scene
  
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• ‘Pornographic chic’: can Helmut Newton’s sexist nudes really be fixed by gender-switching?

  28-08-2023 09:00
  
  Hani Hape has recreated the infamous photographer’s overtly sexual photographs of female nudes – using naked men instead. But the results, while fascinating, raise even more issuesIn John Berger’s highly regarded book Ways of Seeing, he closed his chapter on the nude by posing a challenge: “Choose from this book an image of a traditional nude. Transform the woman into a man. Either in your mind’s eye or by drawing on the reproduction. Then notice the violence which
  
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• Dalí, Darwin and Doodle Boy: an arty weekend in Shrewsbury, Shropshire

  28-08-2023 09:00
  
  It’s the last week to catch the annual summer arts trail, but there are year-round attractions in this medieval market townShrewsbury, a gorgeous medieval market town, was put on the art map in 2021 with the launch of the Shrewsbury Arts Trail. The event goes from strength to strength: this year it boasts three sculptures by Salvador Dalí. Two are outdoors: the 5-metre-tall Surrealist Piano startles visitors to the castle grounds and Homage to Terpsichore dominates the courtyard of
  
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