Was such Andy Warhol The first influencer in the modern world? The artist may have died two decades ago before social media turned the word into a job title, but Warhol’s prolific use of photography to capture carefully curated lives would have earned the artist millions of followers today. The artist as an influencer is … Read more
Meta researchers have made a big leap in the field of artificial intelligence art generation With Make-A-Video, the creatively named new technology for – you guessed it – to create a video from nothing but a text prompt. The results were impressive and varied, all, without exception, a little frightening. We’ve seen text-to-video models before … Read more
TThe treasures on display range from the astonishing variety—a 5,000-year-old cooking pot decorated with a ceramic representation of a dancing flame—to the intriguing, such as mushroom models that might suggest ancient makers were interested in the mind-altering properties of fungi. Gathered in an exhibition room in StonehengeAbout 80 pieces were made in Japan during jomon … Read more
Screenshot taken from an online video showing Martin Mubarak apparently burning a drawing of Frida Kahlo. With permission from Friday. A Mexican entrepreneur told a wealthy crowd in Miami that what happened next would “change the lives of thousands of children”. Then he set fire to a drawing of Frida Kahlo, perhaps Mexico’s most famous … Read more
The pillars of the art market are said to come down to the three elements: Death, divorce, or religion. In these dramatic instances of turnaround, financial risk, or both, old collectors are more motivated to unload their merchandise, and when they do, the results can be astounding. In May, Sotheby’s scored a big win at … Read more
Prue Leith, who says her most proud achievement is turning Fourth Base in Trafalgar Square into a display of contemporary art, is resisting calls to make it a permanent statue of the Queen. In an interview with The Guardian, Judge Bake Off was wary of a compromise plan to create a fifth base to allow … Read more
A pedestrian-oriented street view in Station Square redevelopment now completed It has recently seen a further enhancement of its public domain with important pieces of public art. Anthem Properties worked with renowned local artist Douglas Coupland to create four sculptures, spread across two locations within the redevelopment. Three sculptures are located outside JJ Bean Coffee … Read more
sAmson Campalo’s solution to being late in an interview was characteristically swaying: His flash drives to the curb outside the front gates of Old Oxford College, pulls me out of the porter’s inn and shouts into the parking lot around the back. He holds a plethora of keys which, like the polite Hagrid, reveals the … Read more
‘I You want a dam for the president,” says the opening of Zoe Leonard’s book I Want a President. “I want someone with aid for the president, I want a homosexual for the vice president, I want someone who doesn’t have health insurance, and I want someone who grew up in a place where the … Read more
If you care about the world of photography, you may know that famous YouTube star Logan Paul recently sold a set of photos titled 99 original copies Like NFTs for tens of thousands of dollars per image. Is the group worth that much? Is Logan Paul the Artist Who Will Change the Photography Industry? Is … Read more
