Australian schools face pushback from AI art courses, and more art news
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progress Report. since Donald Trump Second term of office, Department of Homeland Security On the surface, it has used its social media to publish artworks, ostensibly speaking to the great American language, to include Thomas Kincard Foundation, This says that legal action is being considered for the unauthorized use of artists’ work. But what does DHS really mean when DHS publishes images The United States is progressing, Paintings from 1872 John Gast, A German immigrant of allegorical fate by showing that Native Americans were forced to withdraw from the photo? this New York Times Explore this and get close to Stephen Aron, director The Ottery Museum in the West of the United States In Los Angeles, which owns the works. “I don’t know of any existing American history textbooks America’s progress As an accurate description of western expansion, Allen said, describing the work as “one of the ways white Americans in the 19th century wanted to imagine. ”
“Anti-art” art course Being busy University of New South Wales In Australia, one of the products this year is Australia’s “artist-produced AI”. The course is Oliver Brown, He said he faced a “nightmare cake” after listing the courses. Robin, A fine arts student at the school initiated a petition asking for the cancellation of the course; it currently has more than 7,000 signatures. guardian. At least for the time being, the school continues to defend the course. A school spokesperson told guardian Brown will provide “thinking integration” of his subjects and “ensure students are familiar with an increasingly integrated world.”
Digestion
The entire art organization and gallery New South Wales, Australia breathed a sigh of relief after the state government announced $15.4 million in funding over two years, relaxed concerns about the potential crisis facing regional art galleries in the region. [The Guardian]
Just got promoted Frick Collection Online, actors and comedians Steve Martin A new film is now being supported, tracing the origins of the Western Desert Art Movement. He has skins in the game: Martin has more than 100 Aboriginals artwork. [Australian Financial Review]
Indigenous art has a moment. frize Written in Tate Hyundai and opaleand the speech of the face week Tony Albert, Robyn Kahukiwa,and George Tjungurrayi The decisive transformation in the UK. [Frieze]
months ago, New York Times By reassigning four critics to new roles, it triggers a commotion and shakes its cultural table. People ask if Art criticism has come under fire. Now it’s guardianTurn around. The paper recently published an article titled “The Death of Commentary? Danger Risks of Cultural Criticism.” [The Guardian]
Kicking
Dust to dust. Hurricane dust-proof destroyed Burning man Nevada festival. Oleskiy Sai’s Work dark clouds (2025) is a 100-foot-tall inflatable that sank the audience’s head until the strong winds divide it into two. But not everyone is missing: the artist plans to rebuild the work. The producer of the work, Vitaliy Deynega, Express hope, tell Art newspaper, “Everyone already knows that we have a war, but I want the world to see Ukraine as a country that can make beauty and create art, and that’s why we live.”
