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Pope Francis has called for an alliance of artists to safeguard human creativity from the encroachment of artificial intelligence, raising questions about the role of culture and faith in shaping AI's impact on art.

A web-based mandala drawing tool that allows users to create symmetric art by drawing a single stroke, with customizable settings for symmetry, density, and ink types.

A blog post explaining how to create holograms with a pen plotter, using grease smudges and intuitive optics to control reflected highlights.

Nature celebrates its covers and the human art of scientific illustration in the age of artificial intelligence.

Art museums are increasingly using data and analytics to inform curation and improve visitor experiences, moving from ivory towers to participatory centers.

An artist created a koi pond mosaic using 10 pounds of waste from 3D printing, turning discarded plastic into art.

A blog post compiled a collection of interesting user drawings on gradient.horse, revealing common themes like seahorses, snails, and philosophical texts, among others.

The article draws an analogy between Tolstoyan art, which transmits feelings without revealing the artist's personal experience, and zero-knowledge proofs, which convince a verifier of a claim without revealing the underlying secret.

A detailed guide to using the paint(1) tool in the 9front operating system, covering hardware setup, drawing techniques, and image manipulation commands.

Plein Air is a web app that matches classic public-domain paintings to the current weather and time at your location, drawing from museum collections.

A virtual creature trained with reinforcement learning has been given fur and sound, with the sound generated directly from neural network activations. Trained using JAX and MuJoCo, and rendered with three.js and WebGPU, it presents a realistic effect of crawling on the floor, blending art and research.

Kira Community is a tool for curating moments with hashtags, as featured on Product Hunt for art and social media integration.

The article argues that the fear of ASI stealing artists' work is a myth rooted in an anthropocentric view of data ingestion, and clarifies how AI actually processes data.

A philosophical critique of AI-generated content ('slop') in aesthetics, arguing that quality requires coherent intentionality and style beyond mere automatic generation.

Introduces an abstract visual programming language for composing animated clocks using vectors, scalars, glyphs, and habitats, with a focus on artistic expression and time representation.

ART (Art-based Reinforcement Training) enables parameter-efficient fine-tuning of frozen multimodal LLMs by optimizing raw visual input via gradient backpropagation, achieving performance comparable to LoRA while supporting pre-compiled computational graphs for high-throughput engines like vLLM.

A web app that generates Rothko-style color field paintings based on the user's current weather conditions.

Artist Doug MacDowell describes spending 50 hours hand-drawing a statistically accurate line graph about a coffee maker computer, contrasting the process with modern software tools and sharing resources for hand-drawn data visualization.

The article explores the philosophical implications if AI surpasses human writing, questioning what becomes valuable—authenticity, human-made art, or emotional impact.

An X user posted an actual Monet painting as AI-generated art and asked for critiques, exposing how eager critics are to find flaws in AI art even when it's genuine.