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In the cluttered world of TikTok, #BookTok emerged as a favorite long ago: a cozy, sprawling community with a hashtag that has over 64.3 billion views and counting. The social media giant is well aware of this popularity, seizing upon that long-embedded love for literature with by launching an official book club on the platform.

Two Estonian artists – poet Elo Viiding and painter Santa Zukker – are trying to disrupt how people see art to make art exhibitions more engaging by combining paintings and poetry; their exhibition, “Vastukaja” (“Echo”), runs until 18 July at a piano bar in Tallinn.

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen,” Leonardo da Vinci, an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance, reportedly said.

Pop sensation Jay Chou is taking fans on a journey through time, all the way back to the first half of the 20th century.

The singer’s music video for the latest single “Greatest Works of Art” is a homage to some of the most acclaimed artists and their works in modern art. And many of his admirers in the Chinese mainland, who have missed out on international travel due to COVID-19 border restrictions, are feeling nostalgic about European art and culture.

Most people equate the sounds they hear to the conduction of noise or air through their ear canal. But why can they still hear a tune when their ears are plugged or covered? Or hear the sound generated by brushing their teeth or eating crunchy food? All this is thanks to bone conduction, a field in which Shenzhen Shokz Co., Ltd., a high-tech company in China’s consumer electronics industry, has been active since 2004.

OpenAI’s GPT-3 conversational AI model has successfully submitted an academic paper about its ability to do so. Researchers instructed the AI to produce the article, and “Can GPT-3 write an academic paper on itself, with minimal human input?” is now under peer review.

Belgian artist Gijs Vanhee, with his distinctive graphic style, metaphorically exposes the themes we neglect in our everyday lives. The freedom we dream of and the reality we neglect are intertwined in the paintings of Belgian-born muralist Gijs Vanhee. The artist is coming to Sofia to create a mural in the city center at the invitation of the Visionary Foundation and as part of Belgian Days 2022. Gijs Vanhee is an illustrator who became passionate about street art in his teens.