Art either captivates the public or it doesn’t, and the same, it would seem, is true of art heists. Some enthrall us with their brazenness. Others charm with their cheekiness. - The Walrus
Manouach printed out the Japanese digital edition of One Piece and bound it together, treating the comic not as a book but as “sculptural material”, according to the book/ artwork’s French publisher JBE. - The Guardian
The Sydney Modern Project, the new contemporary art wing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, has two big old oil storage tanks from World War II under the building. One of them has been made into a Turbine Hall-style space for large-scale installations. - The New York Times
Pinch me – I must be dreaming. Brad Pitt is an extremely impressive artist. I certainly didn’t expect to be saying that when I got up this morning. - The Guardian
"From this month, psychiatrists in one of the city's largest hospitals have been able to offer patients 'museum prescriptions', a free visit with a few friends or family members to discover one or more of Brussels's cultural institutions" as treatment for depression, anxiety, or stress. - The Guardian
Freshening up the 45ft-tall letters will require about 250 gallons of paints and primer, and anyone who wants to watch the paint dry can follow along on the sign’s 24/7 webcam. - The Guardian
“I’ve been here almost 32 years. Literally, the story never changes. We have an incredibly rich and vibrant arts scene here, and I resent being told we’re dying.” - Hyperallergic
Deepfakes graduated from a looming threat to something an enterprising teenager can put together for a TikTok, and chatbots are occasionally sending their creators into crisis. - New York Magazine
The totem poles in Ketchikan represent the ancestral traditions of the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian people. The Ketchikan Museum’s collection at the Totem Heritage Center alone has more than 30 poles from the 19th century, relocated from the original villages in which they were found. - Smithsonian
Owning a disputed, possibly wildly valuable, art work is a cruel test of any person’s aesthetic values, basic reason, and innate (often well-disguised) capacity for greed. Close your eyes and there are millions of dollars hanging on the wall. Open them, and there is nothing to see. - The New Yorker
The German capital's ethnological museum has started displaying videos or modern copies of the works it has returned to the countries from which they were taken during the colonial era. Is that enough? Or is it just whitewashing? - The Guardian
"Salman al-Nabahin unearthed the mosaic pavement, thought to date from the fifth to the seventh century AD, six months ago while working in his olive orchard in Bureij refugee camp, about half a mile from the border with Israel." - Reuters
Any matches in the results mean that the image could have potentially been used to train AI image generators and might still be used to train tomorrow's image synthesis models. AI artists can also use the results to guide more accurate prompts. - ArsTechnica
The development means there is increased competition for photographers on what were traditionally called photography stock websites, but might be now better described as something else. - PetaPixel
Clément Chéroux arrived just two years ago, and during his time MoMA "was closed for the coronavirus pandemic and its programming was disrupted." He's leaving to direct the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation in Paris. - The New York Times
