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Love, Melancholy, Anger, and Surprise: Asian Artists Explore the Emotional Side of AI

Artworks by Mo Kong. Works by Tianyi Sun-Fiel Guhit and Mo Kong; Illustration by Daniela Hritcu for ARTnews To speak in the same breath of artificial intelligence and Asians, who have long been coded in popular culture as task-driven robots and emotionless cyborgs, risks belaboring the stereotype or, at best, rehashing well-worn critiques of techno-orientalism. …

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Visitor Numbers at the Louvre Fell Off Sharply Before and During the Paris Olympics

Visitors queue in front of the Louvre’s Pyramide. ALAIN JOCARD/AFP via Getty Images While crowds descended on the Château de Versailles, Eiffel Tower Stadium, and other venues during the Paris Olympics to watch sport, the world’s most visited museum emptied out. During the Games, between July 27 and August 11, attendance at the Louvre fell …

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Joan Mitchell Foundation Announces 2024 Fellowship Recipients

Gamaliel Rodríguez, The tropicalized notion of power , 2022. Courtesy the artist and Sperone Westwater, New York The Joan Mitchell Foundation has announced the 15 artists chosen for its 2024 fellowships, which come with $60,000 in unrestricted grants over a five-year period. The artists chosen for the fellowship program this year are Scott Anderson, Michaela …

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Holographic Art Goes Mainstream, Monet Water Lily Painting to Make Auction Debut, British Museum Reveals Major Gift of Chinese Art, and More: Morning Links for August 22, 2024

Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926), ‘Water Lilies’, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City. (Photo by VCG Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images) To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES BAD PROJECTION. The “C-Project” sounds like a shady plan hatched by shady people in a budget sci-fi film. In reality, it’s not …

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Shu Lea Cheang Takes Aim at Technologies of All Kinds to Explore Her Indefinable Identity

Daniela Hritcu for ARTnews Even though it looks nothing like her, Shu Lea Cheang is fond of calling the gray-skinned being in her 2023 video UTTER her “AI self-portrait.” This figure changes constantly, sprouting breasts that morph into muscular pecs, flitting between races, and shifting age so that it appears variously like an elderly man, …

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25 Essential AI Artworks

Daniela Hritcu for ARTnews Each passing month seems to bring a fresh wave of anxiety about what artificial intelligence has done to artmaking. Fear arises when new image generators are unveiled, when AI-produced artworks win contests, when museums like the Museum of Modern Art exhibit pieces that involve machine learning technology. But artists have been …

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