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Michèle Lamy is a designer and executive manager of art and furniture at Owenscorp, the company she cofounded with fashion designer Rick Owens. Below, she discusses artificial intelligence (AI) and her hopes for the future. American film director Bennett Miller’s recent exhibition of AI photographs at Gagosian Paris had me mesmerized. The works appear unassuming at first glance, like one of a woman smoking two cigarettes at the same time. But on closer inspection one can see smoke coming out of her hair, and bodily deformities, like her hands. AI can have a hard time reading certain details. All of Miller’s photos are close to reality but have something missing or twisted that makes viewers question which world we are in. Fashion designer Bella Freud is the daughter of artist Lucian Freud and the great-granddaughter of psychoanalysis inventor Sigmund Freud. In her podcast Fashion Neurosis, Bella invites celebrity guests to discuss the connection between fashion and identity. Inviting them to lie down on the couch, tapping into the Freudian, Bella starts by asking people what they are wearing and ends by reminding us of our relationships to one another. Australian musician and actor

Nelson’s engagement with the erotics of extraterrestrial subject matter was inspired by an unusual muse: the storied Mars rover, Opportunity. “I call her a lesbian icon,” the artist said, adopting the feminine pronoun that NASA attached to the robot during its 2004–18 service on the Red Planet. “She’s one of the farthest-roaming robots we’ve ever sent off-planet, and she took an insane amount of images,” Nelson told me when I visited her studio in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. “She was on an expedition alone, doing these butch rock experiments while [casting] glances across the landscape, which is an absolute lesbian trope: the longing glance, never to close the distance.” Nelson’s new work focuses on enormous telescope arrays, started as an artist-in-residence at the SETI Institute, a Silicon Valley–based nonprofit studying the presence of life and intelligence beyond Earth. Last year, she showed photographs of a telescope array in California in a two-person exhibition (with Joanne Leonard) at Luhring Augustine in New York. For a solo show next year at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, she is making work inspired by one of the world’s largest radio telescopes, at the Green Bank Observator

The British Museum, the world’s first free-to-the-public national museum, opened its doors in 1759. Founded in 1753 by an act of Parliament, after the physician and collector Hans Sloane bequeathed his collection to the nation, the museum immediately had a base of 71,000 items to oversee. We don’t know the real name of the game played with this inlaid board, die, and markers, but it was extremely popular with the people of ancient Mesopotamia—boards for it have been found at archeological sites across the Middle East. Nobody knew how to play it until the 1980s, when British Museum curator Irving Finkel translated a cuneiform tablet written by a Babylonian astronomer in 177 B.C. and realized he was looking at the game’s rules. An unpredictable race between two players to move all their counters off the board, this game has stunningly modern gameplay. You can knock your opponent off the board, gain immunity, and win extra throws of your die. This particular set was excavated in southern Iraq, in the royal palace of Ur, in 1926 and is the oldest complete tabletop game ever found. If you want to test your skill, you can buy a copy in the British Museum [...]

Venice, the Return of the Bucintoro on Ascension Day (circa 1732) had been estimated at £20 million ($27.5 million). The painting was initially guaranteed by the house and later backed by a third-party guarantee. In a packed auction room, five bidders competed for the work—once owned by the UK’s first prime minister, Robert Walpole—driving it well past its estimate. It eventually sold to an anonymous phone bidder via Alice de Roquemaurel, Christie’s international director and head of private sales for postwar and contemporary art. The room erupted in applause when the gavel came down. The artist’s previous record had stood at £18.6 million with fees ($24.6 million) for Grand Canal from Palazzo Balbi to the Rialto, sold at Sotheby’s London in 2005.Venice, the Return of the Bucintoro on Ascension Day measures 86 x 13 cm, making it larger than any other significant Canaletto work to hit the auction block over the last two decades. Christie’s made no secret of its high hopes for the painting; before the sale, the house’s King Street HQ was draped in a massive reproduction of the work.“A couple of art advisors told me after the sale that it was so great to see a really [...]

“This is an extremely valuable discovery not only for our country, but also for the world’s cultural heritage,” Ersoy continued. Ersoy also announced the construction process of a new museum focused on underwater archaeology would begin this month in the Kemer Idyros region, where the ceramic artifacts will be exhibited in the future. Additionally, there will be an dedicated section on underwater archaeology at the Antalya Archaeology Museum.

One of the founders of the British Pop art movement, English painter Peter Phillips died at 86 years old on June 23. His family confirmed the news in an online statement. Born in Birmingham, England, in 1939, Phillips attended London’s Royal College of Art with the likes of David Hockney, Allen Jones, and R.B. Kitaj. There, he became one of the originators of the British Pop art movement in the 1950s and ’60s, which made such elements of pop culture as advertising, car design, science fiction comics, movies, and books its subject, in a bold push against (what the group believed to be) an elitist art world. For his part, Phillips layered mundane images of consumer culture and mass entertainment into his vibrantly colored paintings, often with a playful twist. His 1961 canvas For Men Only — Starring MM and BB, for instance, incorporated images of Marilyn Monroe and Brigitte Bardot alongside lingerie models and abstract symbols, with a rabbit leaping across the cavas between them. The painting includes collaged elements from magazines and advertisements. His work was exhibited at the Paris Biennale in 1963. In 1964, he was included in the era-defining exhibition “Nieuwe Realisten” at

Lebanese-born artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino are back at the helm of Australia’s 2026 Venice Biennale pavilion, following a dramatic reversal by the organization that makes the Australian Pavilion in Venice possible, Creative Australia.  At the time, Palestinian artist Emily Jacir, a former Venice Golden Lion winner, wrote on Instagram “Shame on Creative Australia,” while Iranian-Australian artist Hoda Afshar called the decision “fascism.” Even West Space, a Melbourne gallery that has recieved funding from Creative Australia, released a rebuke, warning of “long-term negative impact” on Australia’s cultural standing. Meanwhile, Sabsabi and Dagostino remained defiant. “Art should not be censored as artists reflect the times they live in,” they said in a joint statement in February. “We also believe that, despite this decision, the Australian art world will not dim or be silent” 

Durante la charla se expondrán cartas personales para documentar algunas de sus vivencias y parejas, así como críticas que sufrió por elegir vivir como realmente deseaba. Al final de la presentación, nos invitará a reflexionar sobre la importancia y la valentía de ser visible.