January 24, 2022 • View in browser
Good morning. ☀️ Today, 10 museums expand their paid internship programs, a recent study found AI can identify an artist’s brushstrokes pretty well, and imagine being prescribed art during your medical education.
— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief
Art Classes Are Helping Transform Medical Education
Classes like Anne Willieme’s are part of the burgeoning field of medical humanities, which aims to tackle the disciplinary divide between art and science. | Anne Wallentine
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DU’s Emergent Digital Practices Faculty Merge Art & Technology to Inspire Change for Public Good
Graduate students in the University of Denver’s Emergent Digital Practices program work on research with faculty who are engaged directly with their communities, both online and off. Learn more.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Twitter introduced a new feature that allows paid users to set up an NFT profile picture.
A study finds that AI can identify an artist’s brushstrokes with over 90% accuracy.
Ten museums across the U.S. and Canada join the Association of Art Museum Directors’ paid internship program.
UPCOMING SPECIAL EVENT
Native American Sovereignty's Impact on the Curation of Indigenous Art: A Conversation with Tahnee Ahtone, Kiowa Tribal Museum Director
Join us tomorrow, Tuesday, January 25, at 7 pm (EST) for a special event with curator Tahnee Ahtone as she discusses the many facets of her curatorial work with the Kiowa Tribe and her recent Hyperallergic email exhibition, in which she treated readers to an exclusive viewing of the tribe’s important educational murals, previously on private view until now.
The conversation will explore how curation for a Native American community connects the realities of Native sovereignty and why it is crucial to include tribal governments when engaging with historical and artistic material related to their communities.
LATEST IN ART
A Photographer's Portrait of the Theater of the Streets
A pioneer of street photography, Levitt worked in the most crowded and poorest neighborhoods of New York searching for the theater of everyday life. | Francesco Dama
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Stanford Arts Presents a Virtual Conversation With Catherine Opie and Rebecca Solnit
Part of the university’s Artists on the Future series pairing renowned artists with cultural thought leaders, this online event is free and open to the public. Learn more.
The Materiality of Memory in the Paintings of Eugène Leroy
Leroy's canvases seem to be about age and decay — about the process and limits of recollection made manifest. | Jake Romm
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