#artworks

2025-06-27

University of Cambridge: AI art protection tools still leave creators at risk, researchers say. “Artists urgently need stronger defences to protect their work from being used to train AI models without their consent. So say a team of researchers who have uncovered significant weaknesses in two of the art protection tools most used by artists to safeguard their work.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/27/university-of-cambridge-ai-art-protection-tools-still-leave-creators-at-risk-researchers-say/

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2025-06-27

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Image: Pierre Bonirote (1811-1891)

A group of people listening to a story teller seated on a large rock on a beach. The story teller holds a lute in one hand and has the other outstretched to emphasise a point. He is wearing rolled up trousers, an open shirt and a drooping red cap and has brown hair and beard. The listeners are an old bored-looking man, a young man and a couple. Image from Wikimedia Commons.
2025-06-26

AFP: France’s Versailles unveils AI-powered talking statues. “Versailles late Monday announced a partnership with US-based OpenAI and French start-up Ask Mona to bring a modern AI touch to the iconic 17th-century palace. Curious visitors can delve into Versailles’ rich history by scanning a QR code next to one of some 20 garden statues—triggering interactive conversations in French, […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/26/afp-frances-versailles-unveils-ai-powered-talking-statues/

2025-06-24

The Art Newspaper: Uffizi director to ‘limit’ selfies after posing visitor damages 18th-century painting . “Restrictions will be placed on visitors taking selfies at the Uffizi Galleries in Florence after a tourist damaged an 18th-century portrait while posing for a photograph, the gallery’s director confirmed today.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/24/the-art-newspaper-uffizi-director-to-limit-selfies-after-posing-visitor-damages-18th-century-painting/

Zorz StudiosZorzStudios
2025-06-23

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2025-06-22

Google Blog: The Wallace Collection launches on Google Arts & Culture. “Today, the Wallace Collection, home to one of the world’s most significant collections of fine and decorative arts and arms & armour in the heart of London, celebrates its 125th anniversary with its first collaboration with Google Arts & Culture.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/22/google-blog-the-wallace-collection-launches-on-google-arts-culture/

JumblePublishingJumblePublishing
2025-06-22

This week's writing prompt was painted by Edmund Bristow (1787-1876). Is your story going to mention that obviously developing storm? And will the dogs interact in any way?

A landscape scene with a dark ominous sky with four small birds flying away from the clouds. At the centre of the scene, a well-dressed man on a white/grey horse is talking to a smocked farmer/shepherd. The smocked figure has a working dog sitting at his feet (it looks like a border collie) while the rider has a white greyhound-like and possible spaniel and a third shadowy dog following his horse. Image from Wikimedia Commons.
2025-06-20

CODART: Fifty French Collections of Dutch and Flemish Art Added to the CODART Website. “Over the past few months, the CODART website has been expanded with a large number of collection summaries of Dutch and Flemish art in French museums. More than 50 public institutions in France are involved, all of which hold significant collections of objects made in the Low Countries before 1750.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/20/codart-fifty-french-collections-of-dutch-and-flemish-art-added-to-the-codart-website/

2025-06-20

The Baltic Times: Online Museum of Traditional Art of Ukraine – KROVETS has resumed its work at krovets.ua. “The platform KROVETS offers users unique access to over 3,800 digitized exhibits of Ukrainian traditional art. These relate to numerous samples of clothing, ceramics, embroidery and other household items that reflect the richness of Ukrainian culture. The online museum provides an […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/20/the-baltic-times-online-museum-of-traditional-art-of-ukraine-krovets-has-resumed-its-work-at-krovets-ua/

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2025-06-20

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Image: Bernardo Strozzi (1581-1644)

Bearded old man with shiny bald pate bent over a book and pointing to a turning page with a young black-haired student leaning on a brown globe paying close attention.
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2025-06-16
2025-06-15

Google Blog: Explore the modern and contemporary art of Greece. “Greek Art Now, a collaboration between seven prestigious Greek national museums and Google Arts & Culture, unveils a stunning collection of over 60 immersive stories. This digital exhibition offers an unprecedented opportunity to explore masterpieces from renowned institutions, presenting the best of Hellenic art from the last […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/15/google-blog-explore-the-modern-and-contemporary-art-of-greece/

2025-06-15

University of Wales Trinity Saint David: Swansea Stained Glass Archive Available to the Public for the First Time. “The University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD) is delighted to announce the launch of the Swansea Stained Glass Online Archive, a newly digitised and searchable collection of hundreds of stained glass panels created by students at Swansea College of Art over the past five […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/15/university-of-wales-trinity-saint-david-swansea-stained-glass-archive-available-to-the-public-for-the-first-time/

2025-06-15

MIT News: Have a damaged painting? Restore it in just hours with an AI-generated “mask”. “In a paper appearing today in the journal Nature, Alex Kachkine, a mechanical engineering graduate student at MIT, presents a new method he’s developed to physically apply a digital restoration directly onto an original painting. The restoration is printed on a very thin polymer film, in the form […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/15/mit-news-have-a-damaged-painting-restore-it-in-just-hours-with-an-ai-generated-mask/

JumblePublishingJumblePublishing
2025-06-15

A painting by Paul Friedrich Meyerheim (1842–1915) for this week's writing prompt. Are you going to focus your story on the performers, the audience or perhaps one of the animals?

A circus scene of a woman in a pink frilly leotard taking a snack from a very little monkey on a table with performing dogs in the foreground and a watching Victorian crowd.
IJCAI ConferenceIJCAI
2025-06-14

Debuting at , the Art Gallery will feature that engage with the paradox of Machine Sovereignty and Digital Mortality. Will art illuminate these questions in ways that science cannot?

2025-06-13

PC Gamer: Relooted is a high-tech heist game about reclaiming African artifacts from Western collections, which are said to hold ‘90% of sub-Saharan African cultural heritage’. “Relooted is set in a near future where a new international treaty stipulates that all African artifacts on public display in Western museums must be returned to their country of origin. … You’ll coordinate a crew of […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/13/pc-gamer-relooted-is-a-high-tech-heist-game-about-reclaiming-african-artifacts-from-western-collections-which-are-said-to-hold-90-of-sub-saharan-african-cultural-heritage/

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2025-06-13

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Image: John Pettie (1839-1893)

2025-06-12

Turned my cat Mousy into three 8 bit pixelartworks a few years ago. 😺

Which one do you like the most?

1. Original photo
2. C64
3. EGA v1
4. EGA v2

#pixelart #cat #cats #retro #catsonmastadon #artworks

2025-06-11

ARTnews: Looted Antiquities from Syria Are Being Sold on Facebook Marketplace. “Facebook Marketplace is typically used as a hub for thrifters to discover hidden gems that are now up for resale. But in Syria, some Facebook Marketplace users may find some unexpected items alongside old furniture and knickknacks: artifacts that may have been looted. Thieves are reportedly robbing graves that are […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/11/artnews-looted-antiquities-from-syria-are-being-sold-on-facebook-marketplace/

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