Inside a low-slung, white building on East Main Street, near the intersection that leads to the Rochester Public Market, the Christmas rush has already come and gone. The busy staff at the gleaming new Decocoa Chocolate Crafters factory has produced, packed and shipped 2.4 million cocoa bombs that will be sold in thousands of retail
Five centuries of European painting can be seen in a new light starting Monday, thanks to a five-year, $150 million renovation at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. The bold redo of the museum’s massive wing devoted to masters from the 14th to 19th century includes a range of improvements, including to the section’s skylights.
It’s not everyday that you come across a project born out of multiple briefs—four to be exact; not that the team at AD100 firm Sanjay Puri Architects was counting. The project, a Mumbai duplex, was somewhat familiar territory for the firm. They had designed the Bafnas’ previous home some twenty years prior, though many things
According to Joseph ‘JP’ Patterson, for Black music in the UK, “the best is yet to come”. In a new interview with Music Week to mark the launch of the On A Level video interview series on Complex UK, Patterson has reflected on the standout campaigns of 2023, including Nines, Cleo Sol, Digga D, Potter
The statistics are shocking. In 2019, a study published in the journal Plos One found that in the collections of 18 major US museums, 87% of artworks were by men and 85% by white artists. In 2022, the Burns Halperin report found that in the acquisitions made at 31 prominent US museums between 2008 and
Amazon “is investing millions in training an ambitious large language model,” reports Reuters, “hoping it could rival top models from OpenAI and Alphabet, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.” The model, codenamed as “Olympus”, has 2 trillion parameters, the people said, which could make it one of the largest models being trained. OpenAI’s
Holding blank white banners, 500 French entertainment stars marched from the Arab World Institute to the Museum of Art and History of Judaism. ADVERTISEMENT The stars were from a variety of cultures and backgrounds and they were joined by thousands of other protesters calling for peace in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel. Last week
By this point, we all have a passing familiarity with the history of the Pug. Pretty much anyone you ask can rehearse the general outline: Pug evolution started in the ancient Far East — China specifically — at some point in the 600s BCE, possibly much earlier. It gets a bit vague between that point and the
Explore the reopened galleries dedicated to European Paintings from 1300 to 1800, which highlight fresh narratives and dialogues among more than 700 works of art from the Museum’s world-famous holdings. Participate in art making, listen to gallery chats and artist talks, enjoy a performance, and experience the collection in new ways. Presented in conjunction with
Twenty-two Djiboutian artists and vendors brought their handmade art and regional wares to Camp Lemonnier on Saturday, Nov. 18, 2023 for the installation’s biannual bazaar. Tables of colorful beads, framed art and handmade crafts lined 11 Degrees North. Normally, the building serves as Camp Lemonnier’s all-hands recreation facility. On Saturday, it became a bridge