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Olafur Eliasson, the Icelandic–Danish artist known for his thought-provoking, large-scale art installations, has launched his first exhibition in the gulf titled The curious desert. The extensive body of work spans a site in the Qatari desert near the Al Thakhira Mangrove Reserve and galleries of the National Museum of Qatar in Doha, showcasing light installations, photo series from Iceland, optical devices, and more.“It is an extraordinary opportunity to create artworks for the sabkha near Al Thakhira Mangrove Reserve. The sun, the wind, the nearby lagoon saltwater – they all help co-produce the artworks that visitors will encounter here," commented Eliasson. "I hope the artworks in turn may sensitize people to the singular landscape and to the more-than-human agencies at work. The other ...

In celebration of the NCAA Men's Final Four arriving in the city, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and adidas Basketball present CAMH COURT, the first-ever playable basketball court in an art museum. Commissioned to design the basketball court, backboards, and basketballs is locally-based artist Trenton Doyle Hancock.The main court is designed to conform to CAMH"s Brown Foundation Gallery's parallelogram shape while matching the dimensions of a regulation court. Displaying Hancock's vivid imagination are striped Bringback characters and bright illustrations which are spread all along the floors, walls, and entrance.Throughout the exhibition, various programs and events will be hosted at the venue with support from adidas Basketball. All activations will culminate in the CAMH Ball on Apri 2...

From his The Bird's Nest to Sunflower Seeds and many more, Ai Weiwei has solidified himself as one of the most renowned visual artists in contemporary culture. Now his catalog is growing even larger with the debut of his largest LEGO artwork at London's the Design Museum.Titled Water Lilies #1, the eye-catching piece is modeled after Claude Monet's Water Lilies (1914 — 26), which currently resides at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City. What makes Weiwei's piece especially unique is its usage of 650,000 LEGO bricks in 22 different hues – spanning 15 meters in length. The new piece by Weiwei is a part of his first design-focused exhibition, which is set to open next month and also marks the artist's largest UK show in eight years."Our world is complex and collapsing towards an ...

There has been just as much excitement as there is disdain for the growing use of AI in art. While the former camp lauds the potential to create seemingly infinite amounts of visuals and moodboards simply from a text prompt, many within the art community are concerned regarding the infringement these developmental tools will impose in the years to come. The U.S. Copyright Office has weighed in on the debate and have ultimately assessed that only human-made works are eligible for protection. In a report published last week, the Office cites a 2018 submission in which the applicant described their work as "autonomously created by a computer algorithm running on a machine.” After a series of appeals, the artwork was ultimately denied a copyright because it was made “without any creative contr...