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Suzanne Kite Is Making Sure Indigenous People Aren’t Left Out of the AI Conversation

Daniela Hritcu for ARTnews Suzanne Kite, who simply goes by Kite, is an Oglála Lakȟóta artist, composer, and researcher, and one of the few Indigenous artists currently working with AI and machine learning, which she has been using since 2018. She holds an MFA from Bard College, where she also heads up an Indigenous AI …

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Cranach Portrait Returned by Museum to Heirs of Original Owner Who Fled Nazi Germany

Lucas Cranach the Elder and workshop, Portrait of George the Bearded, Duke of Saxony, around 1534. Allentown Museum of Art. A 16th-century portrait attributed to the studio of Lucas Cranach the Elder will leave the collection of the Allentown Museum of Art in Pennsylvania after the work was restituted to the relatives of its original …

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After Covid-Related Closure, Long Beach’s Compound Charts a New Path Forward with January Parkos Arnall as Director

January Parkos Arnall. Photo Maria Ponce Compound, an art and wellness nonprofit in Long Beach, California, has named January Parkos Arnall as its executive director. She begins in the post on September 23. Compound was founded in 2020 by Megan Tagliaferri, a longtime resident of Long Beach, but it closed in 2022 amid a wave …

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California College of the Arts Faces $20 M. Budget Deficit, Russian Artist Recounts ‘Grim’ Prison Stay, Butter Fine Art Fair Returns, and More: Morning Links for August 29, 2024

The California College of the Arts. Wikimedia Commons To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES VACANT HOWSE. The California College of the Arts (CCA) is grappling with a severe financial crisis, facing a $20 million budget deficit amid a sharp decline in student enrollment. The non-profit art institution, …

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National Park Service Awards $3 M. To 13 Tribes and 21 Museums To Aid Return of Native American Remains And Sacred Objects

The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County received a grant of $87,867. Photo courtesy of NHMLAC. The National Park Service recently announced $3 million in grants to 13 Tribes and 21 museums to assist in the consultation, documentation, and repatriation of ancestral remains and cultural items as part of the Native American Graves Protection and …

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Love, Melancholy, Anger, and Surprise: Asian Artists Explore the Emotional Side of AI

Artworks by Mo Kong. Works by Tianyi Sun-Fiel Guhit and Mo Kong; Illustration by Daniela Hritcu for ARTnews To speak in the same breath of artificial intelligence and Asians, who have long been coded in popular culture as task-driven robots and emotionless cyborgs, risks belaboring the stereotype or, at best, rehashing well-worn critiques of techno-orientalism. …

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