When Frederic Chiu and Jeanine Esposito sold Beechwood — their magnificent Weston Road property, including a 216-year-old home and towering beech tree — and ended their Beechwood Arts & Innovation series, artists, musicians, foodies and the couple’s many friends were heartbroken. Over 12 years, Beechwood had evolved from a music showcase in a sunny, circular
What makes an artist’s studio the perfect place for creating? Nowadays, there is no one way for an creative space to look: some are part of huge studio complexes, others are a dedicated corner of a bedroom. The concept of the “studio” as we know it today dates back to the Renaissance, when master artists
Visual artist, graphic designer, and writer Sebastián Roitter Pavez discusses finding cracks in the everyday, moving from fiction to action, and going beyond structure and limits. What’s your creative practice? Right now I’m trying to focus on what makes a discourse or image believable or what can work as a mechanism for truth or proof.
May 8 (Reuters) – A California federal judge said he was inclined to green-light a copyright lawsuit against Stability AI, Midjourney and other companies accused of misusing visual artists’ work to train their artificial intelligence-based image generation systems. U.S. District Judge William Orrick said on Tuesday, opens new tab that the ten artists behind the
Growing up, art and music classes were my favorite times of the school day. I would come home with my latest artwork so excited to show it to my mom and dad. They would smile at me and beam with pride, even though looking back now, I’m sure it might have been some of the
In 1937, one year after the Spanish Civil War began, Pablo Picasso presented to the world what would become one of his most famous and recognizable paintings. Named after a northern Spanish town bombed mercilessly by Hitler’s air force in support of one side of the fractured country, “Guernica” has appeared in countless classroom lectures,
Margaret Galvan‘s In Visible Archives explores the political power of archival material in shaping feminist and queer futures. Applying archival studies and comics scholarship to work from the 1980s by visual artists including Alison Bechdel and Nan Goldin, Galvan’s timely book underscores the importance of visibility in ongoing activism and community-building, writes Max Shirley. In Visible Archives:
VR art studio Oisoi Studio, based in Ghent, Belgium, has announced the successful closure of a €450,000 funding round. Oisoi Studio created Painting VR, a virtual painter’s studio spanning over 10,000 square feet, which offers users unlimited creative expression with innovative tools, infinite paint options, and canvases of all sizes. Partially developed with the support
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Illustration by Paola Bilancieri. Nobody likes to provoke people more than my friend René Moncada, an artist who has been shunned by the art world. His revenge has been to display his art in alternative public spaces where his work can’t be ignored. We met in the 1980s in Soho, New York, where we both