65 h. ago Golden Globes’ SXSW London Sessions Explore Changing Landscape

Golden Globes’ SXSW London Sessions Explore Changing Landscape  goldenglobes.com

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2 d. ago Super Trouper meets supercomputer: AI helping Abba star to write musical

Björn Ulvaeus tells audience at SXSW London the technology is ‘very bad at lyrics’ but has helped him break through creative impassesAfter bringing a blockbuster hologram version of Abba to a purpose-built venue in east London, Björn Ulvaeus’s next technological exploration is a musical that he’s written with the help of artificial intelligence.Ulvaeus, 80, told an audience at SXSW London that he was “three-quarters” of the way through writing a new musical which he has created with assistance from AI songwriting tools. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago The Wellcome Collection Is Exploring Humanity’s Connection With Freshwater

The Wellcome Collection Is Exploring Humanity’s Connection With Freshwater  London On The Inside

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8 d. ago Boomer Gallery’s “IDENTITY” Exhibition in London Explores the Art of Identity and Features Work by Xianghan Wang

Boomer Gallery’s “IDENTITY” Exhibition in London Explores the Art of Identity and Features Work by Xianghan Wang  CEO Today

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1 week ago Explore London’s Largest And Oldest Food Market With A Superstar Chef And Guide, Plus Where To Stay

Explore London’s Largest And Oldest Food Market With A Superstar Chef And Guide, Plus Where To Stay  Forbes

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2 w. ago Brits may catch a glimpse of 'mini planetary alignment' from May 23 – what you need to know

Dr Shyam Balaji, an astroparticle physics and cosmology researcher at King’s College London, explored the upcoming planetary parade that Brits could see in he early hours of tomorrow

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2 w. ago Exploring The Cumberland Hotel In London’s Rich Musical Heritage

Exploring The Cumberland Hotel In London’s Rich Musical Heritage  clashmusic.com

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2 w. ago David Hockney’s rarely seen early works united in new London exhibition

Exclusive: In The Mood For Love, curated by grandson of early Hockney champion and art dealer, John Kasmin, will feature works from 1960-63When one of David Hockney’s iconic swimming pool pictures sold for $90.3m (£70.3m) in 2013, he became the world’s most highly valued contemporary artist. Now paintings, drawings and prints that he sold for a few pounds in the 1960s are being brought together for the first time in a new exhibition.John Kasmin, an art dealer who first recognised Hockney’s potential in the early 1960s when the artist was studying at the Royal College of Art (RCA), told the Guardian that Hockney’s prices then “rarely ever went above 20 quid”. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Scotland's first ever festival for dogs featuring music, art and dog

“I wanted to create a day that celebrates the special bond we have with our dogs — while also being fun, inspiring and inclusive for all dog lovers, whether they have a pup or not."

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3 w. ago ‘It was the people’s art’: exhibition explores mysteries of early American photography

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New YorkThe New Art at the Met, an unusual array of photos taken between 1839 and 1910, reveals an unexpected historyPhotography expert and Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Jeff L Rosenheim believes that cameras are profoundly entwined with the American story. “I’ve always been drawn to photography because it has this baseline democratic principle,” he told me. “It arrived from Europe in 1839, and what were we going to do with it? How did the camera play a role in us becoming the country that we hoped we would become?”Rosenheim sees cameras as furthering the anti-aristocratic principles that America was founded on, in the process helping individuals own their identities and document their world. His new exhibition at The Met, The New Art: American Photography, 1839–1910, aspires to give us new ways of seeing precisely how that occurred. Dozens of portraits of everyday Americans showcase a fascinating people’s history of the United States, while also rev...

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