https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-08-15/editorial-generative-ai-is-a-leading-contributor-to-our-energy-consumption-how-will-this-impact-our-climate

It is the first work by Alma-Tadema to be acquired by the National Gallery, and its inclusion in the museum’s collection is part of its ongoing 200th anniversary celebrations

It was painted to catch the eye of industrialist William Armstrong, who was a fan of another work by Alma-Tadema titled An Audience with Agrippa (1875), which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1876. However, Armstrong’s interest wasn’t piqued, which is his loss given After the Audience is now widely considered to be one of the artist’s masterpieces, “noted for its scale and complexity of composition,” according to The Art Newspaper.

London’s National Gallery has splashed out more than $2.5 million on a painting by Dutch, Victorian-era artist Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1833-1912). The artwork, called After the Audience (1879) centers on Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, who was the son-in law of Emperor Augustus Caesar and the patron of significant Roman buildings including the Pantheon and the Basilica of Neptune.

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/08/15/londons-national-gallery-acquires-major-work-by-lawrence-alma-tadema-for-%C2%A32m

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https://www.itv.com/watch/news/rare-itv-news-interview-with-man-claiming-to-be-the-artist-banksy/w131wh9

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@NorCalCherylLyn
They've become a pestilence, haven't they?

https://archive.ph/thZGd

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-08-13/billionaire-accused-of-stealing-sand-from-malibus-broad-beach-lawsuit-says

https://archive.ph/qlNtn

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-08-13/murder-of-teenager-in-40-year-old-cold-case-tied-to-lake-elsinore-serial-killer

https://archive.ph/X2M08

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/newsletter/2024-08-13/gen-z-loneliness-crisis-changing-entertainment-tastes-can-hollywood-adapt-the-wide-shot

@singlemaltgirl
Huh?
What is this in response to?

A museum in Tel Aviv is hiding its most valuable works in the basement as Israel fears the wrath of Iran. Paintings by Pablo Picasso and Gustav Klimt are among the works being secured underground by the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in case Tehran fires missiles at the Israeli capital as regional tensions flare. [The Times of Israel]

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https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/ai-companies-lose-bid-dismiss-parts-visual-artists-copyright-case-2024-08-13/

Last year, a judge allowed a direct copyright infringement complaint against Stability, which operates the Stable Diffusion AI image generator. However, he binned a load of other claims and asked the artists’ lawyers to add more detail to them. In the most recent, though, the revised cases have convinced the judge to approve another claim of induced copyright infringement against Stability. Who will win, artist or AI corps?

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A lawsuit filed by a cohort of artists against Midjourney, Stability AI, and other companies dabbling in AI has been green-lighted by a judge, despite some claims being dismissed. The artists claim that the popular AI services broke copyright law by training on a dataset that included their work and, in some cases, their users can directly reproduce copies of their work.
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