PetaPixel Wednesday March 8, 2023
A new AI-powered face filter that reportedly never glitches has left TikTok users shocked and concerned about how realistic it is, declares PetaPixel. Called “Bold Glamor,” the beauty filter airbrushes a person’s face, chisels their jawline and cheekbones, whitens their teeth, and darkens their eyes and eyebrows in real-time, never malfunctioning, no matter how much the person moves. “The AI-programmed filter is so lifelike that it has left TikTok users unable to decipher between reality and their digitally enhanced faces in a video,” notes PP.
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AnOther Wednesday March 8, 2023
Does art have the power to enact real political change? That, notes AnOther, is the question at the heart of “The Yanomami Struggle,” a new exhibition organized by the Fondation Cartier at The Shed in New York City’s Hudson Yards. The exhibition primarily features the work of Swiss-born photographer Claudia Andujar, who has spent over five decades shooting and advocating for the Yanomami people, a group of approximately 54,000 individuals living in the Amazon rainforest across Brazil and Venezuela.
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ARTnews Wednesday March 8, 2023
Around 120 French artists signed a Le Monde newspaper op-ed article that decries a new European Union sales tax as a threat that will dramatically raise the cost of selling art in France. Among those signing the article was the street artist JR, known for his large-scale photographic installations. “In a globalized system where our works are sold at the same price in Paris, Brussels, London, Hong Kong or New York, the multiplication of this VAT by four would discourage any purchase of works in France,” notes the article.
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David Schonauer Wednesday March 8, 2023
Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to leave Earth on April 12, 1961, but six months earlier the space race took an artistic turn when Yves Klein flew from a second-floor window
above the pavement of a Paris suburb. The artist's "Leap Into the Void," captured by photographers Harry Shunk and Janos Kender, was not all it seemed--the photo was made from … Read the full Story >>
