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• Book On AI Mistakenly Flagged By Publisher’s Filters As AI

  18-08-2024 23:01 via artsjournal.com
  Ingram’s filters had mistakenly identified the book as having been generated using AI—a mistake indicative of the AI moment we now find ourselves in. – Publishers Weekly
  
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• The Most Intricate Map Of A Human Brain Ever Made

  18-08-2024 22:32 via wired.com
  
  This cubic millimeter of tissue has allowed Harvard and Google researchers to produce the most detailed wiring diagram of the human brain that the world has ever seen. – Wired
  
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• A Star Cellist’s Long Road Back From Long COVID

  18-08-2024 22:01 via nytimes.com
  
  As he began preparing, his body and mind rebelled. He would start shaking as he played. “Not great for anybody,” he said, “let alone a cellist who relies on steady hands.” – The New York Times
  
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• How Collapsing Art Sales Prices Have Brought Young Artists Down

  18-08-2024 21:31 via nytimes.com
  
  Over the last year, as money drained from the art market, young art stars around the world experienced dramatic setbacks that submerged their careers. – The New York Times
  
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• A Massive Ancient Monument 500 Years Older Than The Pyramids

  18-08-2024 21:01 via news.artnet.com
  
  Located in Brú na Bóinne, a historical park north of Dublin, Ireland, Newgrange is thought to have been built around 3,200 B.C.E., making it 1,000 years older than Stonehenge and 500 years older than the Great Pyramids of Giza. – Artnet
  
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• Alan Gouk obituary

  18-08-2024 20:43
  
  Alan Gouk, who has died from cancer aged 84, was an ambitious abstract painter and an eloquent and passionate writer, committed to the continuing power of modernism. For many years he taught sculpture at St Martin’s School of Art (now Central Saint Martins, part of the University of the Arts London). He was primarily influenced by American abstract expressionism, although became conscious of the European basis of his art – his personal lodestars were the painters Henri Matisse, Hans
  
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• Netflix Founder Plans To Turn Utah Ski Area Into Sculpture Park

  18-08-2024 20:31 via artnews.com
  
   “We aim to transform Powder into a multi-season destination that blends recreation, art, and meaningful connection for our entire community.” – ARTnews
  
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• Disney Tries To Get Wrongful Death Lawsuit Dismissed Because Dead Woman Agreed To Disney+ Terms Of Service

  18-08-2024 20:02 via deadline.com
  
  They argued that by signing up for a free 30-day trial of Disney+ in 2019, and again when purchasing the theme park tickets in 2023 through his Disney+ account, Piccolo agreed to the streamer’s terms of service, which includes that “all disputes” with “The Walt Disney Company be settled out of court via arbitration. – Deadline
  
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• Final artwork in Banksy animal series removed by London Zoo

  18-08-2024 19:50
  
  Staff replaced stencil art of gorilla helping animals to escape with reproduction to preserve ‘significant moment’ for zooStencilled on a shutter at the entrance to London Zoo, the mural showed a powerful gorilla lifting up the metal barrier and creating a dark hole just big enough for other animals to use to make a speedy getaway.Now, Banksy’s ninth and final artwork in his animal-themed London series has itself escaped, removed in an attempt by the 196-year-old zoo to “
  
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• Has Cinemark Found The Right Formula To Get People Back Into Movie Theatres?

  18-08-2024 19:29 via wapo.st
  The third-largest U.S. theater chain, often seen as a cautious little brother to AMC and Regal, has gained market share since lockdown and its stock is at its highest level since early 2020 after gaining more than 80 percent so far this year. – Washington Post
  
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• Artists Claim Progress In Case Against AI Image Generators

  18-08-2024 19:03 via arstechnica.com
  
  The court will now allow artists to proceed with discovery on claims that AI image generators relying on Stable Diffusion violate both the Copyright Act and the Lanham Act, which protects artists from commercial misuse of their names and unique styles. – ArsTechnica
  
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• Goldberger: Architecture Criticism Is In “Chaos”

  18-08-2024 18:31 via dezeen.com
  
  The transition from print to online journalism has led to “chaos” within architecture criticism that has upsides as well as downsides, author Paul Goldberger tells Dezeen. – Dezeen
  
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• How To Watch Literature Adapted To Ballet

  18-08-2024 18:02 via lithub.com
  
  In the transformation of literature to performance, a story ceases to be something that I can control by holding it between my hands. But part of the pleasure of this season’s literary ballets was in the effort it takes to experience something fleeting—in the straining to see. – LitHub
  
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• How does Banksy feel about the destruction of his art? He may well be cheering | Rafael Schacter

  18-08-2024 14:00
  
  Graffiti and street art are by their nature ephemeral. More upsetting than works’ destruction is the criminalisation of some artistsThis month, stencilled artworks by the street artist Banksy have been defaced, as with his Nissan-trampling rhino, or removed, as with his satellite-dish wolf and hoarding-bound big cat – sometimes just hours after their first public appearances.While the wolf was either stolen to order or opportunistically taken (and, much like the bronze Barbara Hepwor
  
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• Bradford races against the clock to finish works in time for city of culture

  18-08-2024 13:00
  
  Just four months away from taking on the prestigious honour, event organisers are facing numerous challengesIn a little over four months, Bradford takes the mantle of city of culture for 2025.But the city is in a race against time to resolve an almost perfect storm of over-running civic works, delays to infrastructure refurbishment, crises with transport and uncertainty over one of the proposed flagship venues, which is causing something of a headache for the event’s organisers. Continue r
  
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• ‘It’s wanton vandalism’: the unwanted consequences of owning a Banksy

  18-08-2024 09:00
  
  The artist’s subversive work draws crowds and criminals alike, and owning an original is fraught with logistical problemsThe picture of a pair of masked men in south London this month making off with a ladder and a satellite dish, newly decorated by Banksy, made one thing clear: people want Banksy’s art and believe it is extremely valuable. The culprits in Peckham Rye were photographed and filmed in action, so took a big risk, and two arrests were made later that day.But if an origin
  
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