WORLD ART
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Artist Wins Photography Contest After Submitting AI-Generated Image, Then Forfeits Prize
An artist declined an award at for a prominent photography contest because he had submitted an AI-generated work, proving, he said, the...
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New York Museum Censors Images of Prophet Muhammad in Online Tour, Sparking Debate
Scholars took issue with the Asia Society’s handling of images of the Prophet Muhammad after some pictures were blurred in an online campaign...
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HK Arts Council Nixed Funding Over Security Law Issues, Critics Debate Australian Museum Field, and More: Morning Links for April 17, 2023
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With Her Decade-Long Exploration of Puerto Rico’s Architectural Motifs, Edra Soto Highlights Their Cultural Value
Edra Soto’s work likely appears familiar to you. Though the Chicago-based artist has been commissioned for numerous public artworks in recent...
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Expo Chicago Awards Prizes to Museums for Acquisitions of Work by Under-Recognized Artists
The Expo Chicago art fair has revealed the four institutions set to acquire works being sold there via prizes, as well as the curators set to...
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Esmaa Mohamoud Finds New Understandings of Blackness in Dandelions and Cadillacs
Looking at Esmaa Mohamoud’s sculptures at Chicago’s Kavi Gupta gallery, you might not immediately know that they are directly...
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Controversial Painting at Palais de Tokyo Doesn’t Harm Children, French State Council Says
A Miriam Cahn painting at Paris’s Palais de Tokyo that incited outrage in France after many claimed it represented pedophilia can stay...
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The Best Booths at Expo Chicago, From Pleated Knots to Poignant Works About Memory
Bringing together more than 170 galleries from 36 countries, Expo Chicago hosted its VIP preview on Thursday morning. The fair’s aisles were...
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Six Works by Salvador Dalí Now on View at the Chicago Art Institute
Long before Salvador Dalí’s name became practically interchangeable with Surrealism, the Art Institute of Chicago acquired several of his works,...
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Former Art Institute of Chicago Employee Pleads Guilty to Embezzling $2 M. from Museum
A former payroll manager at the Art Institute of Chicago plead guilty in federal court this week after he was indicted in January on...