Scarlett Johansson called out OpenAI this week for mimicking her voice for a new chatbot, underscoring the urgency that many artists feel about regulating artificial intelligence. But in Congress, taking on AI is starting to resemble wrestling an octopus. It’s so sprawling, it’s hard to know how to begin. The Senate AI Working Group issued
Vinings resident Nellie Mae Rowe, who worked as a domestic most of her adulthood, turned to painting and sculpture full-time in her 60s and enjoyed a remarkable late-in-life career. Her work was collected by the High Museum of Art, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco, the Smithsonian National Museum
Chanel and the Tribeca Festival are once again sweetening the pot for winning filmmakers with the 2024 Artist Awards program. Now in its 19th year, the program celebrates the link between visual art forms through the act of gifting. Participants in the Artist Awards program, selected by curator Racquel Chevremont, have each gifted an artwork
Sponsored Meet Maggie Crosland. (Jacob Blankenship / Bham Now) Soon, you can experience unique, twelfth-century imagery and more at the Birmingham Museum of Art (BMA), thanks to their brand-new Curator of European Art. With 10+ years of experience, Maggie Crosland is bringing a diverse and rich perspective to BMA’s curatorial team. Read on to learn more about Maggie
Jenny Holzer Tribeca Festival and Chanel have announced the artists selected for this year’s Artist Awards Program. This year’s participants, who gift an original work to be given to the festival’s winning filmmakers, include Deborah Kass, Erick & Elliot Jiménez, Glenn Ligon, Jenny Holzer, Joiri Minaya, José Parlá, Juliana Huxtable, Maia Cruz Palileo, Paul Anthony
Tom of Finland, the Finnish artist famous for his homoerotic illustrations of hypermasculine men, died in 1991. But his legacy lives on — through his art, which adorns queer establishments around the world, as well as through the Tom of Finland Foundation. In addition to preserving Tom’s oeuvre, ToFF works to carry on Tom’s spirit
A new campaign has been launched by Music Venue Trust (MVT) calling on artists to support grassroots music when they reach arena-selling level. Announced yesterday (May 21), ‘The Artist Pledge’ asks artists to commit to helping grassroots venues, artists, and promoters by pledging to a ticket levy on arena-sized gigs. The levy would then pay
What do you consider to be ‘high value’? Tickets to Taylor’s Eras tour? A luxury honeymoon in the Maldives? Jewellery? A car… your dream home? Commodities, items… things. Well, if you take a scroll down TikTok’s FYP, you’ll likely see countless ‘content creators’ using the term to describe people, specifically those they consider date-worthy. Take
The President of the Republic Zoran Milanović visited the main exhibition at the 37th Youth Salon, entitled “Pao sat u bunar” [Time Fell Down the Well], which opened on 25 April 2024, at the Home of Croatian Artists in the Meštrović Pavilion. The Youth Salon is a biennial event and the largest national exhibition for
From your fondest memories to priceless paintings, Vieunite’s Textura Digital Canvas transforms the way you can display art at home The chances are you and I are never going to own a Mondrian. Or a Monet. Or, indeed, a Manet. But what if I said for a snip under £600, you could enjoy all three in