Meta—the company formerly known as Facebook—has inaugurated its newest home in the landmarked James A. Farley building in midtown Manhattan with five site-specific commissions. A roster of five New York-based artists have created large-scale artworks, from joyful murals to free-hanging organic forms and to fiber and textiles murals that call to mind New York’s patchwork of people. The artists include Baseera Khan, who has created ...
The New Dehli-based art collective Party Office, which planned to present a public program in Kassel at Documenta, has called off the event, saying it does not feel safe in the city after collective member Joey Cannizzaro came under attack alongside two others in an anti-LGBTQ+ and racist incident. The public program that was scheduled to take place Wednesday, July 13, was meant to focus ...
Stephen Thaler's AI creation, A Recent Entrance to Paradise, has been denied copyright protection by the US Copyright Office. Stephen Thaler The U.S. Copyright Office (USCO) once again rejected a copyright request for an A.I.-generated work of art, the Verge’s Adi Robertson reported last month. A three-person board reviewed a request from Stephen Thaler to reconsider the office’s 2019 ruling, which found his A.I.-created image “lacks ...
In 2018, President & CEO, Imagination Engines, Inc. Dr. Steven Thaler sent a request to the U.S,. Copyright review board asking that they register an artwork to an AI he had invented, Creativity Machine. That board rejected his application, which he appealed. Last week, the review board once again refused to grant an AI a copyright because, it said, copyright can only be granted ...
Minister Nigel Adams visited Tileyard London on Thursday, 3 February, 2022. The Minister toured key Tileyard facilities, including the in-house management, publishing, and record company Tileyard Music. Tileyard Music includes Pixie Lott and Brit and MOBO award winning singer, Ella Eyre, on its roster. Tileyard North is under construction in Wakefield, Yorkshire and is expected to deliver around 500 new jobs and is benefitting ...
British artist Tracey Emin posted on her Instagram this week that she has officially requested that her 2010 neon piece More Passion be taken down from 10 Downing Street, the official residence and office of the United Kingdom’s Prime Minister. “I am now in the process of requesting that my art work be removed from 10 Downing Street,” wrote Emin in her post. “I ...
The building that once served as artist Donald Judd’s architecture office in Marfa, Texas, has been significantly damaged in a fire. According to a report by the New York Times, the two-story brick building had been undergoing a renovation, and was on fire for over 12 hours starting last Friday. The Times reports that “the fire destroyed much of the interior of the building.” ...