In a completely not creepy development, Google’s neural network is now so fast at improving photos that its “algorithm transforms photos so fast you can see the edited version in the viewfinder before you snap the picture.”
Category: visual
Cindy Sherman And Instagram Are A Match Made In Art Selfie Heaven
Love emoji, thumbs-up emoji: “Her new mobile selfies are by turns outlandish, hilarious and poignant. They demystify the influences and experiments of a great artist, even as they also point to the gap between Ms. Sherman’s vital, unsettling practice of sideways self-portraiture and the narcissistic practice of selfie snapping.”
A Mom Gets Told To Cover Up While Breastfeeding In The V&A, A Museum That Contains Many Bare Breasts
The woman was not taking the suggestion – which is against V&A policy – lightly. “Instead of bearing that in silence, she busted out her phone and started tweeting. She ribbed the V&A, pointing out that the museum seemed totally fine with some bare bosoms — as long as they were made of stone instead of flesh.”
A Critic Writes A Second Review Of A Photography Exhibit, Because The First Was Not Enough
John Yau: “It is not that I was dissatisfied more than usual with what I had written. Writers are always vexed by what they have written. In this case, something else about the works wouldn’t leave me alone. The impetus came from pieces that I did and didn’t write about. I decided to go back to the exhibition and look again. I wanted to figure out what I had not gotten to the first time, and which could not wait.”
Montreal’s Art Biennale Can’t Pay Its Debts And Is ‘All But Dormant’
The biennale owes $200,000 to artists, installers and others who created the 2016 event, and now public funding has dried up for 2018 and possibly 2020 – “To accept a grant and not pay the artists is a cardinal sin in the eyes of every arts council that ever was.” How did it come to this after a grand, ambitious beginning?
Nine Audacious Museum Designs That Never Got Built
Artnet makes a list…
Artificial Intelligence Program Made Paintings People Liked Better Than The Ones At Art Basel
Researchers at Rutgers University’s Art and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory not only created the software, “[they] showed the generated artworks to a pool of 18 people to judge, mixed with 50 images of real paintings – half by famous Abstract Expressionists and half shown at Art Basel 2016.” Not only did the panel prefer the AI paintings, they thought that many of the Art Basel works had been created by the computer. (As Claire Voon puts it, “zombie formalism is real.”)
Architectural Digest Picks The 18 Most Stunning University Libraries
There are the expected ones (Trinity College Dublin, Wren Library at Cambridge, the Sorbonne), modern marvels (Caltech, U. Chicago), places you might not expect (Oklahoma), and one you’d swear was from the English Middle Ages that is, in fact, in the Pacific Northwest. (So, what’d they miss?)
A ‘Little Pompeii’ In France Is Called Most Important Roman Excavation In Decades
“A series of mosaics and a fountain decorated with a statue of Hercules were among the discoveries made when the 5,500 sq. m site [near Vienne, south of Lyon] was examined in preparation for the construction of four apartment blocks.”
First-Ever Int’l Festival For Glass Art Debuts Next Month In Venice
Venice Glass Week will feature “more than 140 commercial and institutional exhibitions, talks and conferences, educational activities, open furnaces, film screenings and evening events. The aim is to show how traditional glassmaking techniques can be used to innovative effect in a contemporary context, while also educate visitors about Venice’s glassmaking history”