August 5, 2024
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Art at AUS | AustinTexas.gov

In the terminal: Eight Big Guitars, 2006 Artists: Various local artists, commissioned by Gibson Guitars, Art In Public Places (AIPP) Collection Location: Baggage Level Learn more about the guitars View on Map Art Terrazzo: Austin in 1839 & Texas Rivers, 1999  Artist: Lawrence W. Speck Studio at PageSoutherlandPage Location: Baggage Level Learn more about Austin in 1839 & Texas Rivers 

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Crack Mix 530: GAUNT

GAUNT’s music carries a haunting, both in the eerie sense and in an uncanny beauty. The alias of musician and visual artist Jack Warne, as GAUNT his work is steeped in a multi-sensory surrealism that draws on his experiences of living with Thiel-Behnke Corneal Dystrophy, a rare eye condition, and which the title of his

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Seven Visual Artists Making Magic in the Bass Scene

Visual elements are an important part of the scene, and it’s time to shine a light on some of the VJs who have impressed us. If there’s one aspect of the electronic music world that seems to get consistently overlooked, it’s all of the technical work that goes on behind the scenes to make our

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Visual artists are fighting back against AI companies for repurposing their work

NEW YORK — Kelly McKernan’s acrylic and watercolor paintings are bold and vibrant, often featuring feminine figures rendered in bright greens, blues, pinks and purples. The style, in the artist’s words, is “surreal, ethereal … dealing with discomfort in the human journey.” The word “human” has a special resonance for McKernan these days. Although it’s

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Visual artists fight back against AI companies for repurposing their work – San Diego Union-Tribune

NEW YORKNEW YORK — Kelly McKernan’s acrylic and watercolor paintings are bold and vibrant, often featuring feminine figures rendered in bright greens, blues, pinks and purples. The style, in the artist’s words, is “surreal, ethereal … dealing with discomfort in the human journey.” The word “human” has a special resonance for McKernan these days. Although it’s always

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Visual artists fight back against AI companies for repurposing their work

NEW YORK (AP) — Kelly McKernan’s acrylic and watercolor paintings are bold and vibrant, often featuring feminine figures rendered in bright greens, blues, pinks and purples. The style, in the artist’s words, is “surreal, ethereal … dealing with discomfort in the human journey.” The word “human” has a special resonance for McKernan these days. Although

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the challenges facing Creative Australia in supporting visual artists

When Arts Minister Tony Burke launched the bill introducing Creative Australia, the new organisation at the heart of the Revive Cultural Policy, he did so with a bold statement: Creative Australia recognises that artists and creatives throughout our great landscape, from metropolitan cities to the red desert, are workers. In exchange for what they give

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Visual Artists Rights Act Does Not Prohibit Covering Murals

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed that the Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 (VARA) does not prohibit covering an artist’s mural where there is no damage to the mural. Samuel Kerson v. Vermont Law School, Inc., Case No. 21-2904 (2d. Cir. Aug. 18, 2023) (Livingston, Cabranes, Kovner, JJ.) In 1993, Samuel

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Green Man brings the visual arts out of the gallery and into the festival field

Art galleries are fantastic places to get creative inspiration, and most of us probably don’t take advantage of them enough. But here at Creative Boom, we also love the idea of occasionally taking art out of the gallery and exhibiting it in a different kind of environment altogether. Whether that be Murugiah’s window installation for

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Visual Arts Exhibition Highlights – KC STUDIO

“Andrew Mcilvaine: Resilience Story,” installation view, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas) Kansas City Metro Andrew Mcilvaine: Resilience Story, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, April 6 – Oct. 15, www.nermanmuseum.orgAndrew Mcilvaine’s powerful mixed media installation and sound exhibition “Resilience Story” shares the dark history

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