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• New AI Video Generators Could Change How Movies Are Made

  04-10-2024 21:44 via nytimes.com
  
  Though many believe the technology could speed the work of seasoned moviemakers, it could also replace less experienced digital artists. Others experts worry that the technology could become a quick and inexpensive way of creating online disinformation, making it even harder to tell what’s real on the internet. – The New York Times
  
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• Ed McLachlan obituary

  04-10-2024 19:14
  
  Cartoonist whose work appeared in Punch, Private Eye, the Spectator and the Oldie in a 60-year career The cartoons of Ed McLachlan, who has died aged 84, were at once as deliciously dark and twisted as Charles Addams, as imaginative as William Heath Robinson, as surreal as John Glashan and as quintessentially British as the Punch cartoonist Pont.Ed’s immediately recognisable pen line, and cast of buck-toothed, big-nosed protagonists, entertained, shocked and outraged from the pages of Punc
  
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• Sydney Teapot Show 2024: fantastic spouts and whimsical handles – in pictures

  04-10-2024 17:00
  
  With more than three decades of history, this year’s exhibition at Gallery Lowe & Lee features over 140 wildly imaginative takes on the tea set – including a duck, a parrot and a pineappleGet our weekend culture and lifestyle email Continue reading...
  
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• Lygia Clark and Sonia Boyce review – pull on a bodysuit and play!

  04-10-2024 16:05
  
  ★★★★☆/★★★☆☆
  Whitechapel Gallery, London
  Clark’s excellently unmuseumlike exhibition invites you to handle sculptures, wear eye-magnifying goggles and tactile suits, while Boyce extends the taboo-breaking theme with touchable dreadlocksArt museums fetishise authenticity. They are archival, collecting and conserving precious, rare and original artefacts. This serves some types of art well, but others less so. For artworks made to be
  
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• Mansion of mysticism: Paris opens glittering home to Sufi art and beliefs

  04-10-2024 16:03
  Featuring peacock-shaped padlocks and a holographic Sufi master, a new museum explores the religion’s influence on Western culture – and leaves visitors wondering how the giant begging bowls were installedAmong the most emblematic paraphernalia of the Sufis is their “begging bowl”, known as the kashkul. That’s why nearly a dozen are at the centre of a new museum dedicated to Sufi culture and art, the Musée d’Art et de Culture Soufis MTO, which has just
  
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• Francis Bacon gets personal, the poetry of decay and a sensory wonderland arrives – the week in art

  04-10-2024 13:00
  
  The modern master’s portraits take the genre apart, Mire Lee explores entropy in the Turbine Hall and Haegue Yang enlivens multiple media – all in your weekly dispatchFrancis Bacon: Human Presence
  The cutting eye of Britain’s most brilliant modern artist is turned on the traditional genre of the portrait. There will be blood.• National Portrait Gallery, London, 10 October to 19 January Continue reading...
  
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