Mark Gould

Axios Exclusive: AP doubles down on local ahead of 2024

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Landscapes Radiate Light and Drama in Erin Hanson's Vibrant Oil Paintings — Colossal In vivid pinks, blues, and greens, radiant landscapes emerge in Erin Hanson’s impressionistic oil paintings.

In vivid pinks, blues, and greens, radiant landscapes emerge in Erin Hanson’s impressionistic oil paintings.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
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"Defund Woke NPR," again What's behind the right's renewed attack on public broadcasting

What's behind the right's renewed attack on NPR and its new CEO?
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Photo portrait of a young Black woman with her face painted blue wearing a velvet purple headwrap, against a brightly colored geometric pattern background

Photo of a young Black woman with blue skin makeup wearing a yellow headwrap and dress, with bouquets of flowers arranged in front of her torso and a magenta and gold textile hanging behind her

Photo of two seated Black women looking at the camera, one curled up on the floor with her head in the lap of the other. Both are wearing long patterned dresses, flowers and colorful patterned textiles arranged as the backdrop

Photo of a young Black woman with blue skin makeup holding a blue and gold patterned veil over her head and face, wearing a blue and yellow patterned textile

Works by Melbourne-based South Sudanese photographer Atong Atem, 2010s-20s, whose portraiture practice explores identity, migrant narratives, and postcolonial practices in the diaspora.

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The report suggests that female creators -- in front of and behind the camera -- find significantly more opportunities on streaming platforms than in the theatrical film marketplace. -Women creators continue to receive smaller budgets and fewer resources, on average, than their male counterparts. -Women also reached proportionate representation as leads in streaming films, but those films were more likely to have smaller budgets and casts. -People of color also reached roughly proportionate representation on screen in streaming projects in 2023, but continue to lag behind in terms of behind-the-scenes opportunities.

“The 2023 UCLA Hollywood Diversity Report suggests that women and people of color drove viewership for the year's most popular streaming content.” Via Inside Streaming

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A very hearty Bronx cheer for you Mr Trump

Firehose Of Falsehood Are we hearing the same protests from MAGA Republicans that we hear from autocrats in Russia, China and elsewhere?

Do we hear the same political protests from MAGA that we hear from autocrats in Russia, China and elsewhere. Propaganda in 2024.
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OpenAI’s GPT-4o Isn’t ‘Her,’ It’s ‘Metropolis’ With OpenAI’s latest model, GPT-4 Omni, all anyone can talk about is how AI girlfriends are going to end the world. But they've been seen as a harbinger of chaos for a long, long time.

Why the tech bros are creating breathless, flirty AI bots.

"But GPT-4o isn’t Samantha in Her. It’s the Maschinenmensch in Metropolis. " via Samantha Cole @404media.co
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As a teenager I spent so many hours immersed in The Moody Blues and the sound created by Mike Pinder's Mellotron. Rest in peace sir.
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Mike Pinder's Amazing Mellotron the sound that helped define progressive rock

Remembering Mike Pinder, the Moody Blues keyboardist who died last week. He introduced the Beatles and the world to the Mellotron, which became a signature sound of the psychedelic era.
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Outside the Supreme Court. - KXAN

A line of Texas state troopers faces the camera on the leafy campus of UT Austin. Behind them, a police prisoner-transport van stands with its back doors open as an arrested student protestor stands with several officers, including one with zip ties hanging from his belt. All around them are more state troopers, local police, and, further away, protesters and onlookers

A hell of a photo by Lily Kepner of the Austin American-Statesman

Leaving CNN Was How Brooke Baldwin Found Her Voice The former anchor exited the network after 13 years not because of Trump coverage or pandemic chaos, but because of something far more ordinary—and insidious.

Things unraveled for Brooke Baldwin at CNN, which she defines as “coming apart,” but it also can mean “getting to the truth.”
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Acrylic painting on canvas panel, 16 x 12 — 2024 Mark Gould

Acrylic painting on canvas panel, 16 x 12 — 2024 Mark Gould

the retreat
Acrylic, canvas panel

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund

Stuart Davis, Egg Beater, V, 1930

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We Can, and We Must, Clown on the Humane AI Pin Forever The Humane Ai Pin joins a rich tradition of terrible tech products that includes the Juicero, Coolest Cooler, and Magic Leap that we must remember forever.

Not afraid to call out really bad tech….
The Humane AI pin leaves a lot to be desired and this writer is unashamed to call it out.
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Funny I’m a boomer and have never cited a blog smh

How Amateur Performers Are Making Porn in the Apple Vision Pro Damien and Diana Soft are making porn using Apple's new VR device—and the headset stays on during sex.

Everything but the Vision Pro comes off
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GERMAN MUSEUM WORKER FIRED AFTER SNEAKING OWN PAINTING ONTO DISPLAY A fifty-one-year-old staffer at Munich’s Pinakothek der Moderne was sacked after hanging his own painting in one of the museum’s galleries.

The museum worker was fired and criminal charges were filed against him. www.artforum.com/news/german-...

A painting showing an imaginary aerial landscape by Mark Gould

the view from above - I like thinking of some of my abstract work as aerial views, another way for me to think about arranging colors.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Gift, Evelyn Sharp, 1977 © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Starfish by Fernand Léger, 1942

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Richard Serra would often talk about our attachment to screens and in part his work was a reaction to all things virtual. He would often say his sculptures were not the art – it was the human experience of moving and walking through his work that mattered.

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Exclusive: Puck acquires Substack newsletter Artelligence Puck's business model is built to incentivize subject matter experts by giving them a cut of revenue from the business they drive.

Sarah Fischer- “Puck has acquired Artelligence, a Substack newsletter about the global art market authored by veteran art director and journalist Marion Maneker, Puck editor-in-chief Jon Kelly tells Axios.”
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The “Wild” Artists of Paris Who Revolutionised Modern Art Why Fauvism was a major leap forward in Expressionism

Why Fauvism was a major leap forward in Expressionism
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Artist Crushes Tesla With Colossal Olmec Head Sculpture Chavis Mármol told Hyperallergic that he wanted to “crush an object that represents a sinister figure like Elon Mollusk.”

Chavis Mármol told Hyperallergic that he wanted to “crush an object that represents a sinister figure like Elon Mollusk.”
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Protester at San Francisco environmental protest with sign "Fossil Fool" 2017 photo - Mark Gould

Environmental protest, San Francisco 2017 ©Mark Gould 2017

Protest march in San Francisco, protester holding sign "Just Say NOAA to Alternative Facts" 2017

Environmental protest on Market Street, San Francisco 2017