August 5, 2024
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Glaze, Kudurru and Nightshade help artists fight back against AI : NPR

An illustration of a scraper being misdirected by Kudurru. Kurt Paulsen/Kudurru hide caption toggle caption Kurt Paulsen/Kudurru An illustration of a scraper being misdirected by Kudurru. Kurt Paulsen/Kudurru Artists have been fighting back on a number of fronts against artificial intelligence companies that they say steal their works to train AI models — including launching

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Gallery – The Squid Art Show – Opening Reception Nov. 4th; Visual Arts Lecture – Northwestern Oregon Native American Traditions with Stephanie Craig Sunday, November 5

In celebration of National Native American Heritage Month (November 2023), we are very fortunate to have Stephanie Craig join us at the Hoffman Center. Stephanie Craig is a seventh-generation traditional basket weaver and is a Chinook, Kalapuya, Rogue River, Umpqua, and enrolled Grand Ronde Tribal member. She will be sharing traditional local and regional ecological

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Pentagram utilizes architectural forms to create a new visual identity for the Memphis Art Museum | News

anchor Rendering courtesy of Pentagram Pentagram has released materials showcasing their new visual identity project undertaken for their clients at the Memphis Art Museum (formerly the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art) ahead of the completion of its Herzog & de Meuron-led expansion in 2025. The lettering

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Esteemed Seattle art space MadArt to close, leaving a void  

After showcasing immersive installations by dozens of local and national artists for nearly a decade, a unique and sprawling Seattle art space is shuttering. MadArt, an idiosyncratic venue in South Lake Union, is closing in summer 2024, executive director Emily Kelly announced in a news release. The organization behind the venue, founded in 2009 by

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Darrel Ellis’ ‘Regeneration’ at the Milwaukee Art Museum

Darrel Ellis’s exhibition, “Regeneration,” on view at the Milwaukee Art Museum through January 14, 2024, takes viewers on a complex journey into the deepest recesses of one human’s identity as processed through those around him. The show reflects on the nature of how an identity endures in memories and imagery. And with all this going

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Month-long visual arts and performance festival, “A Stone’s Throw,” examines the experiences of military veterans and their families

Though she was too young to understand many details at the time, Mollye Maxner remembers the Vietnam War had a profound effect on her family. Her father, Steve Maxner, served as a combat medic in the war and endured emotional turmoil from his experience for years afterward. Mollye Maxner, who grew up in Northampton and

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Art and social justice with visual storyteller LaToya Ruby Frazier – @theU

LaToya Ruby Frazier Praised as “one of the strongest artists to emerge in this country this century” by legendary art critic Jerry Saltz, LaToya Ruby Frazier’s groundbreaking work highlights the realities of contemporary America, from post-industrial decline to social and racial injustices. Hosted by the University of Utah’s Tanner Humanities Center, Frazier will give the Gardner

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Visual artist Noelia Towers on being compelled to create – The Creative Independent

Visual artist Noelia Towers on using yourself as the subject, making art with a chronic illness, working outside the gallery system, and the ugly truths of the creative process. You paint portraits of yourself and the immediate world around you. How do you find the energy to keep returning to the subject of yourself? Do

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United Visual Artists: Chromatic

Inside one of the Synchronicity exhibition’s most striking new audiovisual works. Showing as part of Synchronicity, United Visual Artists’ largest exhibition to date, Chromatic is an immersive audiovisual work commissioned by 180 Studios that explores the relationship between frequencies of sound and colour. Inspired by chromeosthesis, a type of synesthesia where sound evokes impressions of

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Visual Arts & Sound Art MFA applications and open studios

Visual Arts & Sound Art MFA applications and open studios Sound Art information session: November 12, 10am ET Visual Arts information session: November 12, 2023, 11am ET Class of 2024 open studios: November 12, 2–5pm ET Columbia University School of the Arts Dodge Hall 2960 Broadway New York, New York 10027United States arts@columbia.edu Applications are

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