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Euroviews. Afghanistan’s art and artists are on the brink of obliteration

We urge both UNHCR and individual governments that have ratified the 1951 Refugee Convention to acknowledge the inherent vulnerability of Afghan artists and cultural workers at risk under Taliban rule, and as such, accord them prima facie refugee recognition, Sanjay Sethi and Johanna Bankston write.

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Listen: Stephen Fry reads Nick Cave’s words about ChatGPT

"We should fight it tooth and nail, for we are fighting for the very soul of the world."

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Banksy’s real name revealed?

A lost BBC interview with Banksy – one of the earliest known radio interviews with him - has been unearthed. And with it, possibly the secretive artist’s identity.

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Roger Kastel, the artist behind the ‘Jaws’ movie poster, dies aged 92

A great name in the history of cinema is no longer with us...

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Ai Weiwei London exhibition 'cancelled' over Israel social media post

Chinese dissident and artist Ai Weiwei has said his new exhibition at the Lisson Gallery in London has been cancelled after he posted comments on social media referencing the Israel Hamas war.

Art

Picasso sells for €130 million and breaks 2023 art auction record

'Femme à la montre' sold for €130 million and is the second most expensive painting ever sold by Picasso.

Creators

A 10 metre sculpture made of chocolate? Meet Patrick Roger

With chocoholics from around the world gathering in Paris this weekend for the annual Salon du Chocolate, we revisit the French artisan Patrick Roger to admire his incredible talent of transforming the glorious confectionery.

Lifestyle

Would you get your loved one's ashes tattooed into your skin?

In a growing trend, people are finding solace by incorporating the cremated ashes of their loved ones into tattoos.

The Dialogue

Khalid Albaih, or the art of fighting injustice

In partnership with Media City

Khalid Albaih is a Sudanese political cartoonist and civil rights activist. He has earned international recognition as one of the most influential political cartoonists. His fight has no frontiers and his goal has never changed: using art to make the world a better place, as he told The Dialogue.

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Danish artist ordered to repay €67,000 for empty frame artworks

58-year-old Danish artist Jens Haaning has been ordered by a Danish court to repay the Kunsten Museum after he delivered blank canvasses to them in 2021.

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Major retrospective of Pierre Soulages in New York opens this week

Soulages, dubbed “the painter of black,” died in October last year aged 102.

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Glum or glam? Here’s what the public thinks of Theresa May’s portrait

Theresa May says it's a 'huge honour' to have been captured on canvas but others have described her official parliamentary portrait as a 'true horror'.

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Swiss exhibition explores the wild and vibrant world of Fauvism

The newly opened exhibition features French masterpieces from the likes of Henri Matisse, André Derain, Raoul Dufy and Maurice de Vlaminck.

Tech News

Dungeons & Dragons cracks down on AI-generated artwork

The company behind the popular RPG game said an artist it has worked with since 2014 was found to have used AI to generate images for an upcoming book.

Creators

How to make a perfume: Meet ‘nose’ Patricia de Nicolaï

Patricia de Nicolai was born into one of France’s oldest and best-known families of perfumers - the house of Guerlain.

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Italian land artist turns wheat field into portrait of George O

Working off a rough sketch, artist Dario Gambarin used a tractor, plough and rotary harrow to carve the portrait into the field.

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Man arrested in connection with Pistoletto artwork arson

What is it with defacing or destroying cultural sites and artworks recently?

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AI art meets music in new Mykonos summer programming

Turkish-American new media artist Refik Anadol is opening the summer-long programme at Scorpios beach club in Mykonos.

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Artists vs AI: Why is Sarah Silverman suing the makers of ChatGPT?

Sarah Silverman and two other US authors claim OpenAI and Meta illegally used their books to train their AI models.

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'Living and breathing' sculptures takeover Berlin's Hamburger Bahnhof

The enormous exhibition hall of Berlin's Hamburger Bahnhof Museum is an imposing space to fill but one that has allowed Eva Fabregas to let her imagination run wild. And the result is incredibly impressive.