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Artists Show Solidarity with Ukraine

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Following the attack against Ukraine by the Russian government on Feb. 23, 2022, several Russian and Ukrainian artists are voicing their support for Ukraine and asking for peace, reported OperaWire.

Russian soprano Olga Peretyatko took to social media and posted a picture against war and said, “God, how can I stop this?” Russian Tenor Maxim Mironov also took to his social media and posted a picture stating “Stop War.”

What Happens When a Photocopy Machine Becomes an Art Tool?

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Decades before computer programs and smartphone apps made digital manipulation commonplace, the photocopy machine offered novel ways to transform images.

When it first came about, this technology was truly groundbreaking. It wasn’t just offices who loved photocopiers; artists soon started to make use of innovative techniques in a genre which has come to be known as photocopy art, xerox art or electrographic art.

Face to face with Ai-Da the robot artist

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Self-portraits by ultra-realistic android go on show at Design Museum in London

She, if it can be called a she, began her career with abstract art but has now moved to self, if they can be called self, portraits and they are alarmingly good.

“She is getting better all of the time,” said Aidan Meller, the force behind Ai-Da, the world’s first ultra-realistic robot artist, who is the subject of a display at the Design Museum in London.

Can NFTs be art?

Wikipedia isn’t sure — and crypto bros are terrified......It's an "art emergency," apparently NFT art has exploded in popularity, but it faces an uncertain future on Wikipedia. Editors of the online encyclopedia recently voted against categorizing non-fungible tokens as art. The result sparked fury in the crypto community.

Bacteria Used to Clean Ancient Art

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Most people don’t think of bacteria when they consider cleaning supplies. But for the Italian National Agency for New Technologies (ENEA), its library of microorganisms is an essential tool for art restoration work. Most recently, a team of scientists and restorers used three types of bacteria to clean Michelangelo’s work in the Florentine Medici Chapels. In two nights, the bacteria cleaned centuries of dirt without leaving any damage or residue on the marble.

The greatest ever Porsche art cars: The very best from the past six decades

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photo: The floral Taycan electrified Singapore’s famous Gardens by the Bay

Porsche have gathered the finest art cars from across the years in order to pay homage to the talented creatives that made them a tangible reality.

In light of the stunning 968 L’ART car’s release, Porsche chronicles some of the finest examples of their art cars – from 911 to Taycan to 356 – and discovers that it takes a lot more than just a fresh lick of paint to turn them into landmark pieces of automotive art.

968 L’ART by L’Art de L’Automobile

NFT beats cheugy to be Collins Dictionary’s word of the year

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The abbreviation of ‘non-fungible token’ tops a shortlist also including pingdemic, climate anxiety and metaverse

In a year that has seen the musician Grimes sell a collection of digital artworks for almost $6m (£4.4m), and the original photo behind the 2005 Disaster Girl meme go for $473,000 (£354,000), Collins Dictionary has made NFT its word of the year.

Artificial Intelligence in plays a vital role in arts but can it also hijack art history?

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Art history is important to reflect and help to create a culture’s vision of itself. Studying the art of the past teaches everyone how people have seen themselves and their world, and how they want to show this to others. Artificial Intelligence in art was not initially applied as a creator but as an impersonator. The technique is called style transfer and it uses deep neural networks to replicate, recreate and blend styles of artwork, by teaching Artificial Intelligence or AI to understand existing pieces of art.

The first museum made entirely from recycled plastic

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The museum is built to raise awareness about the correct use of plastic and will be 100 per cent recycled by the end of the 10 day exhibition

DelaVegaCanolasso, a Spanish design company, created a museum in Madrid made entirely of recycled plastic. The project’s goal is to get people thinking about plastics and how important it is to use them appropriately.