March 9, 2025
European Fine art

AI comes for the creative class – POLITICO

The job — annual salary $90,000-$100,000 — entails developing and testing “prompts,” the text that tells AI programs what to create. The ideal candidate would have an eclectic background, blending coding skills with creativity and, according to Addition’s CEO Paul Aaron, artistic sensibility.  Writing prompts has, in the view of many of its practitioners, become

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European Art

Wifredo Lam: the Cuban artist who merged African spirituality with European modernism

Gods, monsters and the femme cheval For an artist such as Lam, who had left Cuba to study at the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid in 1923, Surrealism was an opportunity to synthesise European modernism with his Afro-Cuban heritage. Soon his paintings abounded with gods and monsters, the most common being

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European Artists

Agnė Jokšė and Anastasia Sosunova’s Queer Eastern European Futurism

In Dance As You Wrestle at Cell Project Space, London, paradox becomes a productive rift In the Eastern Orthodox calendar, 19 January marks Epiphany: believers across Russia and Eastern Europe plunge themselves into frigid oceans, lakes and rivers. They bottle and consume this often-polluted water, ostensibly rendered ‘holy’ on this day, sometimes becoming ill from

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European Art

A New Look at Old Masters

A New Look at Old Masters will explore a variety of themes in The Met’s collection of European painting, creating new dialogues among the works and including a large presentation of sculpture. While one gallery will highlight the creation of still life and genre painting in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, two others will provide

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European Fine art

Small Town, Big Show | Business Jet Traveler

In March, the place to be for anyone seriously connected to the art world is a small, remote medieval town at the crossroads of the Netherlands, France, and Belgium. Maastricht—better known to the world at large as the site of the signing of the 1992 Treaty of European Union—is the home of the European Fine

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European Artists

Ukrainian artists call for continuous EU support – EURACTIV.com

Nine years after Russia’s war on Ukraine began, Ukrainian artists call on the European Union and the international community for continuous support to the country and its (digital) culture, Maxence Peniguet and Olivier Baumard write. Maxence Peniguet and Olivier Baumard are Coordinators of the exhibition Sleepless Ukraine, an art exhibition taking place at Kult XL (Brussels) from

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European Fine art

European & American Masters Triumph At Collector Fine Art’s First Annual Sale

Portrait of Margaretha de Geer (1585-1672), Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, topped the auction at $2.7 million. Review by Z.G. Burnett, Images Courtesy Collector Fine Art Auctions WARWICK, N.Y. – Collector Fine Art Auctions hosted more than 100 objects during its Fine European/American Paintings & Furniture auction on February 4, featuring lots from estates in Tuxedo

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European Artists

The Roma Artist Sewing a New History for Her People

Roma people have experienced centuries of persecution and violence in Europe, including enslavement and forced sterilization; hundreds of thousands were murdered in the Holocaust. This history continues to have an impact on Roma people, who today live mostly in Central and Eastern Europe. While most people in Mirga-Tas’s settlement have access to education, housing and

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Art Investment

Fine Art Finance – A Change Of Perspective For Your Collection

The international law firm gives a brief tour of the fine art investment landscape, a subject of interest to private client advisors, banks and others looking after HNW and ultra-HNW clients. The following brief commentary on fine art and investment comes from the international law firm Squire Patton Boggs, and is part of its

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European Fine art

5 best tuition-free universities in Europe for international students

With many options for travel, education and work, Europe is one of the most popular study abroad destinations.  But that’s not the only reason. Every year international students leave their home countries to study here as there are several tuition-free universities in Europe. While most tuition-free universities in Europe are catered towards students from European

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