Visual arts

Takashi Murakami loves and fears AI

Neo-pop art superstar Takashi Murakami has always embraced new technology and was an early adopter of crypto and NFTs, but even he admits fearing that AI might make him obsolete.

Murakami, 61, has become a brand unto himself thanks to his loveable technicolor paintings that mix traditional Japanese art motifs with modern anime and manga.

Francoise Gilot, the woman who dumped Picasso

France's Francoise Gilot, who died on June 6 aged 101, survived what she called the "hell" of being Spanish artist Pablo Picasso's mistress and muse to become a renowned artist in her own right.

The Picasso Museum in Paris confirmed her death to AFP, after the New York Times reported Gilot had passed away following recent heart and lung ailments.

Exhibit offers Picasso through feminist lens

Fifty years after art icon Pablo Picasso's death, his legacy is reassessed by comedian Hannah Gadsby in a Brooklyn Museum exhibition in New York, this time through a contemporary, feminist lens.

In her 2018 Netflix special "Nanette," Gadsby expressed "hate" for the Spanish master of Cubism and the creator of works like "Guernica" and "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon."

Opposition protest: Threats to Vučić and an incident in front of the Assembly VIDEO

The route followed by the crowd was different than the previous time.
Those gathered walked from the Assembly, through Slavija, to the Presidency at Andricev venac.

In front of the Presidency

The protesters marched down the route to form the ring around the presidency building.

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Bulgaria: The Monument to the Soviet Army in Sofia was again covered with Red Paint

The monument to the Soviet Army in the center of Sofia has been painted again.

One of its compositions is filled with red paint, which also splashed the space around the monument.

On the central part of the monument in red letters is written - DISMANTLE.

This is another attack on the monument, which periodically causes protests "for" and "against" its removal.

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