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This new grocery store is stocked entirely with plastic bags

Humans have swamped the world’s waterways and oceans with damaging plastic debris. This unique store seeks to highlight the problem.

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Nick Cave: ChatGPT and AI songwriting is 'bullshit'

"With all the love and respect in the world”, the track is “bullshit” and “a grotesque mockery of what it is to be human”.

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Watch this artist make political portraits from a mountain of plastic

Congolese artist Patrick Cikuru Cirimwami is using plastic waste to create shame portraits of politicians ‘responsible for the destruction of the environment’.

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How are tattoos being used to help breast cancer survivors?

Tittoo.org, a growing European foundation, is offering breast cancer survivors free tattoos to help them reclaim their bodies

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Creators

One man’s trash: meet the band making sweet music from rubbish

The Barcelona-based group defines their sound as “world jazz.” But then you realise than the 'guitarist' is playing a surfboard fitted with strings and the percussionist is playing on a plastic jug filled with water.

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Euroviews. Profile: Brazil's new Culture Minister Margareth Menezes

After what some Brazilians called ‘a nightmare’ period, Margareth Menezes appointment as Culture Minister is for many a welcome breath of fresh air into a sector that's been neglected during Jair Bolsonaro's presidency.

Work

Will AI text-to-image tools replace artists or empower them?

AI art generators have taken the Internet by storm. How do they work, and how do artists feel about this powerful new technology?

Art

World's 'smallest work of art on a diamond' unveiled in Amsterdam

If diamonds are forever and a girl's best friend, then adding the world's smallest artwork,to what already shines should makes them even more special.

Creators

Enter the magical world of stop motion film with Patagraph

Stop motion animator and director Victor Haegelin is better known as Patagraph on Instagram. In this episode of Creators, we visit his studio to see how he creates his magic on screen.

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Are Lensa's magic avatars based on stolen art?

Lensa's AI-generated "magic avatars" have been a runaway hit on social media. Why are artists warning against them?

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Kabul unveils new art piece in city square

The Afghan capital has unveiled a new landmark on its Dahan-e-bagh square - a giant hand-painted globe of planet Earth.

Art

Max Beckmann painting breaks Germany art auction record

Pink-Yellow portrait by expressionist artist Max Beckmann breaks German Art Auction record in Berlin.

Creators

Flamenco, gender and tradition: The Roma musician breaking stereotypes

Noelia Heredia is a Spanish musician who plays the cajón, a box-shaped percussion instrument traditionally played by men. For her, music is life: "without flamenco, without singing and without music, I think I would die."

Art

Ashes to artwork: UK artist puts father's ashes into painting

Lanson Moore got the idea after being upset with the way the ashes were stored at a crematorium.

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Refik Anadol is making machines hallucinate for his MoMA debut

Turkish-American artist Refik Anadol works with artificial intelligence to create "machine hallucinations," the subject of his first show at MoMA.

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Artemisia Gentileschi's baroque nude portrait to be digitally unveiled

High-tech digital detective work combined with good fortune and lots of patience will help restorers to uncover a major work by Artemisia Gentileschi, the most prominent woman in the history of Italian art.

Creators

The crazy scrap metal sculptures made of nuts, bolts, pipes and spoons

Meet Michel Torres Costa, a Brazilian artist whose spectacular scrap metal sculptures went viral during the pandemic.

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Gaddafi-inspired artwork wins prestigious MAXXI art prize

An art piece inspired by the late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's visit to Italy in 2009 has won the prestigious MAXXI Bulgari Prize

Design

Searching for the Eternal: Celebrating the art of painting on stone

A new exhibition in Rome explores painters from the 17th century who used stone instead of canvas after numerous works of art were looted during invasions. They sought to make their art last forever.

Art

Does art made by an AI have aesthetic worth?

Mario Klingemann is the artist and architect behind Botto, a decentralised artist that sells its generated artwork on the blockchain for thousands of dollars every week.