Art

 Animation Music Nature #Marine de Francqueville #sound #stop motion #video August 15, 2024 Grace Ebert  Bernie Krause is a soundscape ecologist, having spent nearly six decades traveling the globe to record the vast range of noises emerging from tropical rainforests, antarctic tundras, deserts, and more. His work has taken him from the Muir Woods north of his home …

Mark Zuckerberg reveals the new sculpture of his wife, Priscilla Chan. (screenshot Hyperallergic via Instagram) If you had all of the money you could ever dream of and then some, how would you want to memorialize your love for your spouse? It seems like the ongoing trend for lovestruck billionaires these days is to commission sculptures of their partners. This …

 Nature Photography #astronomy #meteors August 15, 2024 Grace Ebert Image © Josh Dury, shared with permission One of the brightest and densest meteor showers of the year, the Perseids pour down every August, leaving glowing streaks in their wake. Photographer Josh Dury captured this year’s stellar spectacle near Stonehenge, showing the fireballs illuminating the sky above the prehistoric grounds …

A group of 10 visual artists can proceed with copyright claims against four companies using text-to-image generative AI, a California judge ruled Monday, August 12. The artists filed a class-action lawsuit against Stability, Midjourney, DeviantArt, and Runway with the United States District Court in Northern California last November, alleging that the image generator Stable Diffusion uses their artwork as “training.” …

 Art Illustration Social Issues #collage #Johanna Goodman August 14, 2024 Kate Mothes “Abortion Rights.” All images © Johanna Goodman, shared with permission From neighborhood highlights to presidential candidates to the total solar eclipse event this past April, Johanna Goodman’s lighthearted collages highlight vital issues, current events, and pivotal personalities. Foregrounding city scenes, iconic architecture, or vivid patterns, the figures …

Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich confirmed a forthcoming settlement expansion near a UNESCO Heritage Site in the Occupied West Bank, detailing plans in a statement on X today, August 14. The announcement follows a June proposal from the Israel Defense Ministry’s Civil Administration seeking to legalize five new settlements in the West Bank, which are considered illegal under international law. …

Paintings by Australian artist Fintan Magee. A pioneer of photorealism in street art, Magee’s recent work has become increasingly blurred and abstracted. The new deconstructed images explore the uneasy relationship between photography and painting — how painting technique contributes to narrative and allegory; how something as simple as a brush stroke can become central to the story within a still …

 Art Books #art history #sculpture August 14, 2024 Kate Mothes Portia Munson, “Today Will Be Awesome” (2022), found pink objects, pink synthetic fabric and cloths, mannequin, salvaged round bar table, and deconstructed secretary desk/cabinet, 72 × 60 × 70 inches. Photo by JSP Art Photography, courtesy of P·P·O·W, New York. All images © the artists, courtesy of Phaidon, shared …

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Justo ahora (right now), María “Lulú” Varona’s second solo show at Embajada gallery, presents cross-stitched and embroidered works that meditate on local concerns such as femicide and environmental destruction, affirming the political potential of solidarity. Varona’s works are often enclosed by a porous chain of multicolor shapes that recall human figures, suggesting the necessity of collectivity …

 Art #murals #painting #Pat Perry #public art #street art August 13, 2024 Grace Ebert “Call on Me” (2024), acrylic on canvas, 66 x 78 inches. All images © Pat Perry, shared with permission Especially Terrific, the title of Pat Perry’s most recent body of work, is multivalent. The phrase invokes both the exceptional and also the grim, which the …