For the love of the game

Chicago Reader: How do art exhibitions get made? For major institutions like the Art Institute of Chicago, entire teams of people can spend months or years putting a show together. From the ideation phase to the time an exhibition opens, the work must be transported and installed, programming has to be planned, materials have to be written, a marketing strategy has to be laid out, among the many tasks that typically go on behind the scenes. For exhibitions that happen at smaller venues, all this work still needs to happen, often with little to no resources behind them.

Between Land and Tide: giant starfish washes up in Portsmouth in this apocalyptic performance art

theconversation.com: Five women slowly process across Portsmouth’s municipal park, covered in hessian-coloured layered fabrics. On their heads they wear what look like strange overgrown dreadlocks, making them a group of connected beings. They move towards a deflated hessian starfish shape on the floor. Circling it, they enact a ritual performance, animating the space and quietly paying homage to the five-armed symmetry of echinoderms.

10 Must-Visit University Art Museums in the U.S.

AFAR: If autumn has you thinking about school days but you’ve long since graduated, consider visiting a university art museum. These extensive art collections are often housed in strikingly modern buildings designed by powerhouse architects like the late Zaha Hadid. And most have free admission. In no particular order, these are 10 of our favorite university art museums for a dose of culture and a dash of campus-life nostalgia.

Artists Want to Prove Their Work Was Stolen by AI. A New Study Says That’s Impossible

gizmodo.com: One way to figure out how something works is to take it apart one piece at a time, and see how it changes along the way. That was the approach taken by two AI researchers who wanted to understand how image-generating AI models arrive at their final outputs: Do they reference a particular image, the way a human portrait artist might look at a human subject while painting? Or is there some other process at play?

AI Infiltration Into The Arts Has Fans Seeing Slop Everywhere

www.forbes.com: The rise of AI-generated imagery and videos has turned the commercial art and production industries upside down, but one of its most insidious effects has been to cast doubt on the provenance of any work, whether or not it was created by humans. Now one creator is offering a modest idea for humans to affirm their place in the creative process.

M-Cube Turns Historic Tunnel into Immersive LED Art Gallery

Sixteen:Nine | All Digital Signage, Some Snark: Italian digital signage specialist M-Cube has turned a historic underground tunnel in Gorizia, Italy, into a fully immersive LED art environment, blending contemporary digital media with protected architectural space in a carefully engineered installation.

Murals: A Right to Protest and Preserve

Arts Management and Technology Lab: The power of the arts is undeniably transformational for individuals and communities. Public art specifically can enhance our outer world and allow anyone to view free, accessible art. This article examines murals as a specific form of public art to explore how their creation can generate lasting social, civic, and cultural impacts within the communities they inhabit. The following offers a historical perspective on the evolution of mural-based works and the impact of technological integration on public artists today.

Decoding the Visual Poetry of the Met Opera’s Beloved Chagall Murals

news.artnet.com: New York’s financially beleaguered Metropolitan Opera announced earlier this week that it may sell its two iconic, and colossal, Marc Chagall murals, which adorn the building’s Grand Tier. There’s a caveat to the proposal, however—the paintings would need to remain in place at the opera, and the owner would be recognized in a plaque. The two paintings, The Sources of Music and The Triumphs of Music, were unveiled in 1966 and have become synonymous with the venue.

What is ‘Art’ really about?

www.broadwaynews.com: “My friend Serge has bought a painting,” the character Marc says as the opening line of Yasmina Reza’s play “Art,” translated to English by Christopher Hampton. “It’s a canvas about five feet by four: white. The background is white and if you screw up your eyes, you can make out some fine white diagonal lines,” Marc, played by Bobby Cannavale, continues with disdain. “He’s done very well for himself, he’s a dermatologist and he’s really into art. On Monday, I went over to see the painting; Serge had actually got hold of it on Saturday, but he’d been lusting after it for several months. This white painting with white lines.”

Immersive Art Installation by Anila Quayyum Agha Now at SAAM

mymodernmet.com: Artist Anila Quayyum Agha is making her debut in the Pacific Northwest. Her illuminated, large-scale installations are currently on display at the Seattle Asian Art Museum (SAAM), cloaking its galleries in intricate projections that immerse the viewer in patterned worlds.

The SENSES Are Present in Boycott’s Endurance Art Series

HowlRound Theatre Commons: We keep gathering to ingest stories of struggle and triumph, to observe human complexity, to see the plight of others and be seen in return, and we have gathered like this since before Homer's time. We relish the opportunity to recognize ourselves in a character’s goodness, yet cower at the familiarity of uglier human traits, imperfection, fury—impulsively turning away lest we risk being witnessed in our rage.

Smithsonian artists and scholars respond to White House list of objectionable art

NPR: The official White House newsletter has posted an article titled "President Trump Is Right About the Smithsonian." It calls out some of the institution's artwork, exhibitions, programs and online articles that focus on race, slavery, immigration and sexuality. That includes works at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, The National Portrait Gallery, and The National Museum of the American Latino.

Islands of Disorder

AMERICAN THEATRE: I stand between multiple worlds. A body as a crossroads and a bridge. In diaspora. In exile. Rooting down in land that is new to me. In love with theatre, a sacred vessel to reclaim what was taken from my ancestors. My art and I embody the very possibility of a pluralistic world. I wish I could hear my blood and bones more easily.

Artist Vanessa German's Homewood 'ArtHouse' Looks To Rebuild After Fire

90.5 WESA: Nationally known artist Vanessa German has vowed to rebuild the ArtHouse, the grassroots community center she founded in Homewood that was extensively damaged in a fire this past Sunday.

Dain Yoon's Amazing Optical Illusion Body Art Reimagines Her Humanity

mymodernmet.com: Like many artists, Dain Yoon enjoys working with paint. But it’s not a canvas that she puts pigment to—it's her own body. Using an extensive palette of paints and brushes, she applies the pigment to her skin and transforms herself into amazing optical illusions.

Meet the Soil Scientists Using Dirt to Make Stunning Paints

Science | Smithsonian Magazine: In September, as wildfire raged in Medicine Bow National Forest, Karen Vaughan watched smoke billow in a choked-off Wyoming sky. The sun was reduced to a matte neon-pink disc behind the haze, and Vaughan worried about her research site in the burning mountains. One of her graduate students still had one more day of fieldwork to complete, and the roads would soon be closed, if they weren’t already.

RISD launches Race in Art & Design cluster-hire for anti-racism initiative

www.dezeen.com: Rhode Island School of Design is hiring 10 faculty members that specialise in issues of race and decoloniality in the arts, architecture and design as part of its wider plan to tackle systemic racism in the school. RISD's Race in Art & Design cluster-hire initiative includes four roles in the school's Liberal Arts and Experimental and Foundation Studies divisions, three in Architecture and Design and three in Fine Arts.

Travels of a Scenic Artist and Scholar – The Tabor Opera House, Leadville, Colorado. Painted Shutters by T. Frank Cox, 1888.

Drypigment.net: The Tabor Opera House in Leadville, Colorado, was renamed the Elks Opera House when the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (B.P.O.E.) purchased the building in 1901. Immediately after the purchase, the building was renovated. Part of the stage renovation included adding a fly loft, so that new scenery could be raised out of sight. Previously, the Tabor Opera House used wings, shutters, roll drops and borders.

A Glorious Mixture of Art and Science

National Endowment for the Arts: "...adults having fun so that children will desire to grow older.” (Hobart Brown, founder of kinetic sculpture racing) If kinetic sculpture is where art and science play, then kinetic sculpture races are art in motion as people complete a racecourse on machines that they design and build.

Randy Orton’s Tattoo Artist Sues Take-Two For Using Her Designs In WWE Games

kotaku.com: Take-Two and World Wrestling Entertainment are headed to trial after a judge ruled WWE 2K games copied the work of an artist responsible for some of pro wrestler Randy Orton’s tattoos.