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Google Arts & Culture App is Your Favorite New AI Toy
Need more AI in your life? No, you don’t. You absolutely do not, even if tech execs will try and tell you for the next several years, at everyone opportunity, that you do. However, you could always use more toys to play with that can create the goofiest of imagery and so we’re here to…
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Montgomery County celebrates African Americans in arts and culture for its Annual Black History Program
NORRISTOWN —This February, all Montgomery County residents are invited to celebrate “African Americans and the Arts” as the 2024 theme of Montgomery County’s annual Black History Program. Four events throughout the month focus on the topics of movies, music, hair art, and fashion, culminating in a special in-person celebration at the end of the month.…
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Wang Curates New Traveling Exhibition of Three Trailblazing Japanese American Women
A new art exhibition curated by Professor ShiPu Wang is reintroducing the diverse art of three California painters to a national audience by bringing representative works from each together for the first time. “Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo” will travel to five museums across the country, including a nine-month display…
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Google’s Art Selfie 2 Uses AI to Turn You Into a Rennaisance Painting
Google has released Art Selfie 2, an app that harnesses generative AI to transform the user into a historical character. Found on the Google Arts and Culture app, Art Selfie 2 builds on 2018’s Art Selfie and was born out of a prototype from the search giant’s Artists in Residence program. After snapping a selfie…
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Boston names its next youth poet laureate
On Saturday afternoon, dozens of people gathered at the Roxbury branch of the Boston Public Library for an afternoon of poetry. Young poets, who were finalists for the city’s youth poet laureate position, performed. As the program wrapped up, Porsha Olayiwola, the city’s poet laureate, announced that Boston’s next youth poet laureate would be 15-year-old…
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Mia Love Live Navigates Anxiety in One-Woman Show
Radio personality, poet and writer, Mia Love Live (Photo by Julius Boseman) There’s nothing easy about anxiety, but when it comes to dealing with it, hiding from the issue is the most simply way out. Putting it on full display to discuss in front of thousands of people is another thing entirely. But if that’s…
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Denver arts and culture survived the pandemic. Now it needs new investment to thrive.
The Denver metro region’s arts and business community is poised for renewal in 2024. Amidst the current economic and political uncertainties, including ongoing wars, political divisions, inflation, climate impacts, and technological advancements, there is a dual challenge and opportunity. The arts and cultural sector faces the task of dreaming big and setting bold goals for…
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Take a Bite Out of Dylan Griffith’s Magic Apple Series at Meow Wolf
The vibrant corridors inside C Street at Meow Wolf’s Convergence Station and its new lounge, Sips (with a Z!), were abuzz with the electric energy of art aficionados and curious minds on January 18. The star of the evening? Dylan Griffith’s Magic Apple, a radiant series of sixteen paintings in a show in the venue’s…
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Traditional arts and culture ushers visitors into Spring Festival
Creativity products and objects and performances of traditional arts were presented at a recent yaji fair at Poly Plaza in Beijing. [Photo provided to China Daily] Yaji, or “gathering of literati”, is a tradition that dated centuries back of which persons interested in cultural and artistic activities gathered to share, and to show their abilities to…
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Decoding Cultural Leadership podcast launched
Created in partnership with Limelight, Samuel Cairnduff‘s new podcast series explores arts and culture in our society with some of Australia’s leading executives, directors and artists. Focused on the intersection between culture and society and grounded in his belief in the capacity of cultural institutions to transform lives and communities, Decoding Cultural Leadership is an evolution…