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A flute-and-harp fragment in Mozart’s hand surfaced this week, and the New York Times reports it’s almost certainly real. How is it that we’re still discovering or re-discovering art that was created centuries ago? The big visual art news is that Getty Images just sold access to its library of human-made images to OpenAI (Fast Company), monetizing the archive as raw material for the machines that will compete with it. Granta, meanwhile, has suspended running writing of the Commonwealth prize because it can no longer tell which submissions a person actually wrote — versus a machine (The Guardian).
And in a move that was a long time in coming, Japan rewrote its copyright law this week so performers finally collect royalties when their recordings play in public (Music Business Worldwide). Copyright everywhere else, pays royalties to “creators” of music — the authors, while the performers got nothing. A very big deal.
Who says the blockbuster art shows are done? Tate Modern is setting advance-ticket records for Frida Kahlo (The Guardian), suggesting that “the blockbuster is dead” was always a claim about supply, not demand. Against all that, the first AI museum opens asking whether any of it is actually art (New York Post). This is exactly the right question.
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Doug
