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• How Digital AI Twins could Transform how We Make Art

  07-01-2025 22:58 via artsjournal.com
  The Digital Twin idea is the notion of looking at something — an organization, an eco-system, a city — and measuring and defining it in as many meaningful ways as possible and creating a digital representation in which elements can be changed or manipulated to see how the rest of the model reacts.
  
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• An age-old problem for Hollywood stars | Brief letters

  07-01-2025 17:56
  
  Golden Globes | Snowed in | Early abstract act | Dinosaur tracks | Creme EggA caveat to any good news about roles for older women (Demi, Jodie and Nicole: is Hollywood finally ready to recognise complex female characters over 40?, 6 January), the Golden Globes were a depressing line-up of emaciated women with plastic faces. How can we celebrate a 50-year-old actor if she is not allowed to look 50?
  Helen Clutton
  Bristol• I can’t think of a better place to be incarcerated than Tan
  
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• ‘I was drenched in painting’: how Jake Grewal’s nudes in nature caused a sensation

  07-01-2025 17:14
  
  His dreamy, mysterious landscapes populated by naked figures have made him a rising star of the art world. But the young artist says he’s still figuring things outWhen Luca Guadagnino began thinking about posters for his latest film Queer, in which Daniel Craig plays an American expat picking up men in Mexico City, one artist immediately sprang to mind. The director had been following Jake Grewal for several years, quite taken with his intensely personal romanticism. Grewal, in turn, had b
  
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• The most exciting US art exhibitions in 2025

  07-01-2025 16:02
  
  The next 12 months offers a wide range of challenging and unusual exhibitions from artists such as Ruth Asawa and Rashid JohnsonWith threats of global instability, ongoing economic uncertainty, and looming battles for America’s political heart and soul, you’ll probably need a good art exhibition more than ever in 2025. Here are a number that can offer space for rest, respite and the return of some amount of optimism in spite of what may come this year. Continue reading...
  
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• Dog x-rays, art history and a ‘never say never’ attitude: the surprising toolbox of professional conservators

  07-01-2025 15:00
  Restoration demands a marriage of scientific and technical expertise withknowledge of art and incredible patienceWhen Cecilia Giménez noticed a flaking and faded painting on the wall of her local church in 2012, her decision to pick up a paintbrush would result in one of the world’s most infamous cases of art restoration.The Spanish octogenarian’s Mr Bean-like job on the 20th century fresco, done “spontaneously and with good intentions”, turned Jesus into something
  
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