It’s not just about live show promotion by producers. Despite being able to access a variety of on-demand services, like food delivery, household essentials, and movies/TV shows, live Broadway performances cannot be streamed at will. The absence of current Broadway shows on…
A former payroll manager at the Art Institute of Chicago, Michael Maurello, has been charged with fraud for allegedly stealing over $2 million from the museum over a period of 13 years. The indictment states that Maurello redirected payments from the museum’s…
A painting previously attributed to an unknown artist has been identified as a Raphael masterpiece using facial recognition technology. A team from the University of Nottingham and University of Bradford used the technology to examine the painting, known as the de Brécy…
Artists Karla Ortiz, Kelly Mckernan, and Sarah Andersen, represented by Joseph Saveri Law Firm, have filed a class action lawsuit against Stability AI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt for allegedly violating copyright laws by using the artists’ images and those of thousands of others…
A joint Egyptian-British team has uncovered a previously undiscovered ancient royal tomb in Luxor, Egypt. Earlier this weekend, officials announced the news via social media and a press release. “A joint Egyptian-English mission between the Supreme Council of Antiquities and the Modern…
British visual artist Reuben Wu, based in Chicago, is known for his sublime imagery of remote landscapes using drone lighting. He enhances craggy peaks with halos and writes glyphs in the sky like signals from a supernatural entity. Wu started his photography…
A statue of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, named “The Embrace,” was unveiled on Boston Common on Friday, inspired by a photograph of King and Scott King, which captured them hugging after he won the Nobel Peace Prize in…
Archaeologists in Norway have made a groundbreaking discovery of the world’s oldest dated runestone, which features runic inscriptions dating back to as far as 2,000 years ago. The stone, named “Svingerudsteinen” or “the Svingerud Stone” after the site it was found, was…
As technology continues to advance, there are increasing concerns about the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the art world. With the ability to generate images from text prompts some worry that AI image generators could replace human artists and profit from…
Getty Images is suing Stability AI, the makers of an AI image-creation tool called Stable Diffusion, for alleged infringement of the agency’s rights to use photographers’ and illustrators’ images. The tool, which uses AI to generate images based on simple text instructions,…