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\n\tAN \u201cANTI-ART\u201d ART COURSE\u00a0is roiling the student community of the\u00a0University of New South Wales\u00a0in Australia, where a class called \u201cGenerative AI for Artists\u201d is among the offerings this year. That course is taught by\u00a0Oliver Brown,\u00a0who said he has faced a \u201clayer cake of nightmares\u201d after the course was listed.\u00a0Robyn,\u00a0a fine arts student at the school,\u00a0launched a petition<\/a>\u00a0demanding that the course be canceled; it currently has more than 7,000 signatures, according to the\u00a0Guardian.\u00a0\u00a0For now, at least, the school has continued to defend the course. A school spokesperson told the\u00a0Guardian\u00a0that Brown would offer a \u201cthoughtful integration\u201d of his subject and that he would \u201censure students are well-equipped to navigate an increasingly AI-integrated world.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe Digest<\/p>\n \n\tArts organizations and galleries throughout\u00a0New South Wales,\u00a0Australia,\u00a0breathed a sigh of relief after the state government announced $15.4 million in funding over two years, easing concerns about a potential crisis facing regional galleries in the region. [The Guardian<\/a>]<\/p>\n \n\tFresh from promoting the\u00a0Frick Collection\u00a0online, the actor and comedian\u00a0Steve Martin<\/a> is now backing a new movie tracing the origins of the Western Desert art movement. He has skin in the game: Martin owns more than 100 Aboriginal\u00a0artworks. [Australian Financial Review<\/a>]<\/p>\n \n\tIndigenous art is having a moment.\u00a0Frieze\u00a0writes that shows at\u00a0Tate Modern\u00a0and\u00a0Fondation Opale, and Frieze Week presentations of\u00a0Tony Albert,\u00a0Robyn Kahukiwa,and\u00a0George Tjungurrayi\u00a0signal a decisive shift in the UK. [Frieze<\/a>]<\/p>\n \n\tA couple months ago, the\u00a0New York Times\u00a0shook up its culture desk by reassigning four critics to new roles, sparking uproar. People asked if\u00a0art criticism was under fire.\u00a0Now it\u2019s the\u00a0Guardian\u2019s turn. The paper recently ran a article titled: \u201cThe death of the review? Cultural criticism is at risk of erasure.\u201d [The Guardian<\/a>]<\/p>\n \n\tThe Kicker<\/p>\n \n\tDUST TO DUST.\u00a0A hurricane-force dust storm destroyed an art installation at the\u00a0Burning Man\u00a0festival in Nevada.\u00a0Oleskiy Sai\u2019s\u00a0work\u00a0Black Cloud\u00a0(2025) was a 100-foot-tall inflatable that loomed high above viewers\u2019 heads\u2014until\u00a0heavy winds snapped it<\/a>\u00a0in two. But not all is lost: the artist plans to rebuild the piece. The work\u2019s producer,\u00a0Vitaliy Deynega,\u00a0expressed hope, telling the\u00a0Art Newspaper,\u00a0\u201cEveryone already knows that we have a war, but I want the world to see Ukraine as a country that can make beauty and can make art and that\u2019s why we\u2019re surviving.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Headlines PROGRESS\u00a0REPORT.\u00a0Since\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0took office for his second term, the\u00a0Department of Homeland Security\u00a0has used its social media to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,39507,356,1376,75,27667],"class_list":["post-108959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-department-of-homeland-security","tag-design","tag-donald-trump","tag-entertainment","tag-steve-martin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}