AI Image Generators for Dummies

October 28, 2022 • View in browser

Good morning. ☁️ Today in the news, a climate activist glues his head to Vermeer's “Girl With a Pearl Earring” in a Dutch museum. What can I say... they can't all be brilliant. And in New York, Columbia University faces criticism for asking its students to redesign Harlem, the same neighborhood it has been gentrifying.

Also, we have two guides for you today: one for the best art shows in New York in November and another is AI image generators for dummies — what are they, how to sign up, and how to use them. Happy Friday, everyone.

— Hakim Bishara, Senior Editor

Your Concise New York Art Guide for November 2022

Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art events this month, including the New York Latin American Art Triennial, Baldwin Lee, Triton Mobley, and more. | Billy Anania

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TRANSITIONS

Jill D’Alessandro was appointed director and curator of the Avenir Institute of Textile Art and Fashion at the Denver Art Museum.

Valéria Piccoli was named Ken and Linda Cutler Chair of the Arts of the Americas and curator of Latin American Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

Shoshana Resnikoff was named the Demmer Curator of 20th and 21st Century Design at the Milwaukee Art Museum.

AWARDS & ACCOLADES

Daniel Brush and Thaddeus Mosley were announced as the recipients of the 2022 Isamu Noguchi Award.

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation announced the final recipients of its Hewlett 50 Arts Commissions. They are Heather Dewey-Hagborg; Stephanie Dinkins; Heesoo Kwon; Ben Levine; Jen Liu; Skawennati; Eve Sussman and Simon Lee; Trimpin; Susana Ruiz and Huy Truong; and Cristóbal Martinez and Kade L. Twist.

The Australian Aboriginal arts collective proppaNOW received the Vera List Center for Art and Politics’s 2022-2024 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice.

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