August 11, 2024
Artists

Minister Roja Distributes ID Cards to Artists

Vijayawada: Culture minister R.K. Roja on Saturday distributed ID cards prepared by the Department of Language and Culture to various artists of the state. Speaking on the occasion, she said the goal of Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy government is to keep arts alive. For the purpose, artistes should thrive. Vijayawada Central MLA Malladi Vishnuvardhan, city

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The art of Trump’s trials: Courtroom artist turns legal battles into works of art

“We have the Mona Lisas of properties,” said former president Donald Trump, in a newly released video of an April 2023 deposition obtained by CBS News. “I have some of the greatest pieces of property in the world.”  “I say they’re ‘paintings,'” he continued. “You put a painting on the wall. It doesn’t throw off

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Redlands Art Association program will focus on artist’s work documenting Joshua trees – Redlands Daily Facts

Thanks for Reading! Don’t miss this deal Get Standard Digital access to enjoy this article and more 4 months for $1 Already a subscriber? Login This photo from Oct. 4, 2022, shows two images of Joshua trees from Fred Brashear’s “Endemic Treasures” on exhibit at the Riverside Art Museum. (File Photo by David Allen, Inland

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Hip-Hop and R&B artists: ‘Be more like Taylor Swift.’

According to Vote.org, a non-profit, non-partisan organization that aims to increase voting among underserved and underrepresented people, close to 40,000 new voters responded to Swift’s message. On one day from one Instagram post, the group saw a 115% jump in 18-year-olds registering to vote. It wasn’t the only time Swift has used her influence to

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‘Trans people are just people’: Artist’s Allentown show explores transgender issues

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — A local artist hopes her new collection helps deconstruct myths about the transgender community. Easton artist Arta Brito’s exhibition “Art Through the Looking Glass” tells the story of a transgender woman finding her place in the world. She will discuss the collection, alongside Mark Wonsidler, curator of exhibitions and collections at Lehigh

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Tezos Artists Unite to Support Humanitarian Relief Efforts in Gaza through #Tez4Pal Initiative

In response to the unprecedented humanitarian crisis in Gaza, the Tezos community is coming together to provide crucial support through the Tezos4Palestine #Tez4Pal fundraiser. From January 20 to February 20, Tezos artists are encouraged to participate by minting their artworks under the #Tez4Pal tag and donate a part or all the proceeds to the designated

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Traveling exhibit features glass works by Native American and Indigenous Pacific-Rim artists

It’s obvious these artists have been inspired by the baskets, textiles and pottery so integral to their personal history and have found innovative ways to interpret these ancient traditions in glass. You’ll learn about the images on the glass that reflect myths and stories, animals of the land, air and sea. Among the artists and

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Portrait of the Artist as an Office Drone

In the opening pages of “Private Equity,” a memoir about working in high finance in the early twenty-tens, the author, Carrie Sun, is asked in a job interview why she wants to be a personal assistant to the founder of an investment firm. Sun, who at the time is twenty-nine years old, has been recruited

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How artists can poison their pics with deadly Nightshade to deter AI scrapers • The Register

University of Chicago boffins this week released Nightshade 1.0, a tool built to punish unscrupulous makers of machine learning models who train their systems on data without getting permission first. Nightshade is an offensive data poisoning tool, a companion to a defensive style protection tool called Glaze, which The Register covered in February last year.

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The Government is giving 2,000 artists €325 a week to help them be more creative. How’s it going so far? – The Irish Times

“This pilot has changed my career. It came at a point where I was beginning to seriously question the sustainability of being an artist in Ireland,” Eoghan Carrick said recently. “It has allowed me to think more ambitiously, to plan better, take more artistic risks. So, rather than thinking about the next months to a

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