In her illuminating book Archive of Feelings (2003), feminist and queer scholar Ann Cvetkovich observes how: “The act of archiving personal and collective memories can serve as a form of activism, a way to resist erasure and claim visibility for marginalized experiences.” 20 years on from the publication of this seminal work in the field
28. Jun 2024 at 11:10 I The travelling Ukrainian exhibition ‘In the Eye of the Storm’ makes a stop in Bratislava. Font size:A–|A+ Comments disabled Only after a close look on a dark painting viewers recognise a crocodile, bent, with glowing eyes, teeth and quirks on its skin, laying on a bay, leaving a feeling of
Generative AI tools, such as Midjourney, use a machine-learning algorithm – trained on artists’ images – to generate pictures in minutes. Street art featuring characters from Asterix in Brussels, Belgium. Photo: Getty Images This has triggered a “complete rejection” of AI in the European comic-book industry, according to Gauthier van Meerbeeck, editorial director at Le
What’s the context? European comic artists and publishers prepare to defend industry from flood of AI-generated art Publishers weigh lawsuits and licences Master of menial tasks or threat to jobs? ‘No soul’ in art by algorithm BRUSSELS – Home to animated heroes from Tintin to the Smurfs, Brussels is proud to display its cartoon heritage
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The best thing about owning your own museum is “walking around it with no one knowing who you are, listening to what people say when they’re looking at the art”. So says Christian Levett, a
Untitled, 2023, Oil on canvas, Courtesy Galerie Claire Gastaud and Copyright Milène Sanchez A series of exhibitions dedicated to French artists at the ICICLE Cultural Space in Shanghai throughout 2024 continues this summer with Milène Sanchez, one of the most promising young talent of the new painting scene. This is Sanchez’s first exhibition outside Europe,
Performance | Talks | Exhibition UNITED ARTISTS FOR EUROPE Inspired by a Manifesto Written by Bernard-Henri Lévy on European Ideals, Values and Culture 21 May: Exhibition Opening – Artworks Donated by Artists Committed to the Cause22 May: Bernard-Henri Lévy’s One-off Performance of Looking for Europe22 May: Hans Ulrich Obrist in Conversation with Novelist Adam Thirlwell RSVP Join us for a highlight of the United Artists for
We came together to celebrate Black cultural production and critical inquiry over a two-day festival in Bloomsbury. This month the UCL European Institute and the SOAS Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies hosted the Festival of Afro-European Arts, Performance and Scholarship, celebrating Black cultural production and critical inquiry. In a series of venues across UCL,
Nina Beier, China, 2015. Photo: Finnish National Gallery / Petri Virtanen Summer is basically here, the New York art scene is set to slow down for the season and all the coolest art world insiders’ travel plans are coming together. If you’re one of them and you’re heading to Europe before Labor Day, you already
European music is seeing powerful growth and Europeans are listening to themselves more as a lot of the growth comes from close to home. Music in Europe is growing, as Spotify reveal that listens to artists in the European Union have grown by 3x in six years. That’s according to Spotify’s Loud and Clear report,