How to Opt Out of A.I. Online
Last week, like the Jews of Exodus painting blood on their lintels, hundreds of thousands of Instagram users posted a block of text to their accounts hoping to avoid the plague of artificial intelligence online.
Milan’s Pinacoteca di Brera rebrands as launch of new modern art space nears
Founded in 1776 by Maria Theresa, the Empress of Austria, the state-run Pinacoteca di Brera possesses one of Milan’s richest and most varied public art collections, including works by Tintoretto, Rubens, Van Dyck, Mantegna, Caravaggio, Titian and Bellini, as well as Francesco Hayez’s beloved painting The Kiss (around 1859).
In Promotional Video, Lady Gaga Modernizes the Mona Lisa’s Smile
The museum released an 80-second video featuring Lady Gaga, who stars opposite Phoenix’s Joker as his maniacal love interest Harleen Quinzel, bopping through the Louvre’s halls, pointing finger guns at priceless works of art.
Slowly, Brazil’s art market is becoming more racially diverse
“We have a culture of erasing the past in Brazil, but racism is finally no longer being ignored.” Mendes Wood DM has since signed Afro Brazilian artists such as Sonia Gomes and Rosana Paulino, the latter of whom currently has a show of paintings, botanical drawings and installations at the house museum of Eva Klabin in Rio.
After 20 years without a permanent home, Warsaw’s Museum of Modern Art will open this month
Among the artists currently represented in the collection are many women, including Magdalena Abakanowicz, Mária Bartuszová, Sarah Lucas, Ewa Juszkiewicz, Sandra Mujinga, Senga Nengudi, Alina Szapocznikow, Rebecca H. Quaytman and Vivian Suter, she says.
Meet the grassroots group making the art world more welcoming for Black women
The typical BGIAS meetup sees the women have a private tour of an exhibition dedicated to work by a Black artist at a commercial gallery, museum or other art space, followed by a guided conversation about what they have just seen and then a meal together.
Late Freud nude to make auction debut in London with ÂŁ10m-ÂŁ15m estimate
A late Lucian Freud painting of Ria Kirby, an art handler at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, is appearing at auction for the first time during Frieze week next month, with an estimate of ÂŁ10m to ÂŁ15m.
Art Supposedly by Michael Jackson Clears Legal Hurdles to Hit the Auction Block With High Estimate of $30 M.
Since a federal judge dismissed the bankruptcy filing and ruled that the art collection return to the block, the auction house rescheduled the sale for October 5.
Disgraced adviser Lisa Schiff’s art holdings planned for auction at Phillips starting in November
According to Artnet News, the sale will take place in two tiers: lower-valued decorative items will be offered through Millea Brothers Auctioneers, while bigger-ticket works of art will be handled by Phillips.
Biggest-ever Indigenous art show to tour North America
Highlights that have never before been seen in North America include the late desert painter Emily Kam Kngwarray’s largest painting, Anwerlarr anganenty (Big Yam Dreaming) (1995), measuring three by nine metres.
Even Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone Can’t Power “The Roommate”
O’Brien’s production, which lacks much in the way of behavioral detail, barely creates a sense of the real, and when LuPone, jutting her chin out, claims that, should it come to stealing cars, she’s good at “jacking them and stripping them down,” we drop fully into camp.
Rome’s Maxxi museum ousts dentist to appoint second interim president in a week
A member of the Amici per Maxxi association, a donors club, from 2016 to 2023, she stood in the European elections with Brothers of Italy, the party led by prime minister Giorgia Meloni, in May, coming seventh.