An Interview with Julian Schnabel
The Gaurdian - Julian Schnabel is agitated. The artist and director has just walked into his new exhibition at the Pace gallery in Manhattan and is fixated on the folding table I’m standing behind. “What’s that...
Deepfake election risks trigger EU call for more generative AI safeguards
tech crunch - The European Union has warned more needs to be done to address the risks that widely accessible generative AI tools may pose to free and fair debate in democratic societies, with the bloc’s values...
The White Review, British Magazine with a Loyal Art World Following, Goes on Indefinite Hiatus
art news - The White Review, a beloved British arts magazine that regularly featured interviews with and essays about artists, will temporarily cease day-to-day operations after failing to receive government f...
Smithsonian’s Latino Museum Faces Political Winds Before a Brick Is Laid
NY Times - Partisan battles over America’s past, and divisions among Latinos, are affecting this new institution set to be built on the National Mall. - read more ...
Burglar steals painting in smash-and-grab from NYC gallery
NY Post - A $5,000 painting was stolen from a Manhattan gallery in a smash-and-grab robbery early Monday, according to cops and sources.- read more ...
MoMA and Morgan Library Among Museums Returning Nazi-Looted Art
Hyperallergic - Seven Egon Schiele works that belonged to Austrian-Jewish cabaret performer Fritz Grünbaum were handed back to his heirs. - read more ...
Presidential Portraits by Kehinde Wiley, This Time From Africa
NY Times - Mr. Wiley, famous for his portrait of former President Obama, is now showing paintings of 11 current and former African heads of state. “This is not a celebration of individual leadership,” he said. ...
The Future of Digital Art as Training Material For Generative Artificial Intelligence Models
Art Business News - Before ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence (AI) large language models exploded on the scene last fall, there were AI art generators, based on many of the same technologies. Simplifyin...
British Museum launches webpage to recover stolen objects—and announces return of 60 items
The Art Newspaper - The British Museum is finally going public on its strategy to recover the 2,000 antiquities that have been stolen from its collection in the past few years, with a webpage dedicated to the ...
First-Rate Surrealist Storytelling Gets Its Due
Art in America - On the afternoon of February 20, 1943, a volcano suddenly appeared in a cornfield near the remote village of Parícutin, Mexico. The field’s owner—a farmer named Dionisio Pulido—later recalled h...