Hacker News with Generative AI: Art

Done in by Time (thelampmagazine.com)
Unlike science, the history of art is not a story of progress. Instead, art—all the arts: literature, music, painting, and sculpture—has high and low periods of varying lengths. Just now, for example, in the realm of high art, we are going through a low period. If you doubt this, ask yourself the work of which contemporary novelist, poet, composer, or painter you are eagerly awaiting. I’ll pause here a moment while you fail to find any.
Art, Literature, Music, Painting, Sculpture
24 points by lermontov 9 hours ago | 12 comments
Andy Warhol artwork may have been thrown out in Dutch town hall revamp (theguardian.com)
In the hands of Andy Warhol, trash often became a work of art. So perhaps the pop culture icon would not be too upset to know that in the hands of one Dutch municipality, one of his artworks went the other way and was thrown out with the rubbish.
Art, Andy Warhol, Netherlands
4 points by rntn 1 day ago | 0 comments
Sarah Wynn-Williams's 'Careless People' (pluralistic.net)
Art, Literature, Books
11 points by Tomte 3 days ago | 1 comments
Sarah Wynn-Williams's 'Careless People' (pluralistic.net)
Books, Art, Culture
14 points by hn_acker 3 days ago | 2 comments
Home galleries are hiding in plain sight across Canada (cbc.ca)
She throws art shows in her apartment. He does the same in a chicken coop. Upstart curators are creating ad-hoc exhibition space wherever they can, and as the cost of living climbs, the number of residential galleries may continue to grow.
Art, Canada, Real Estate, Economy
82 points by SirLJ 6 days ago | 50 comments
Dismaland (wikipedia.org)
Dismaland was a temporary art project organised by street artist Banksy in the seaside resort of Weston-super-Mare in Somerset, England.
Art, Street Art, England, Temporary Art, Banksy
5 points by Tomte 6 days ago | 0 comments
Why the Art World Hates Banksy (and why they can't say it out loud) (reddit.com)
The art world doesn't hate Banksy because he's popular. Or unsubtle. Or anonymous. Or legally litigious. Or because of the stunts. Or because of the merch.
Art, Street Art, Controversy
13 points by handfuloflight 6 days ago | 1 comments
Texas school district bans Virginia state flag and seal over naked breast (theguardian.com)
Virginia’s state flag and seal, depicting the Roman goddess Virtus standing over a slain tyrant, her drooping toga exposing her left breast, has been banned from younger students in a Texas school district.
Politics, Education, Censorship, Art
35 points by sandebert 7 days ago | 16 comments
The Labyrinth of Villa Pisani in Stra, an Intricate Pathway (finestresullarte.info)
It is known as the “queen of the Venetian villas.” and indeed, Villa Pisani in Stra is a significant, elegant, majestic presence; it is impossible not to notice it as one travels along Veneto Regional Road 11, or the long road that leads from the center of Venice, from Piazzale Roma, to the gates of Padua, skirting the Brenta Canal, along which stand several of the villas that in ancient times the Venetian patriciate had erected in these pleasant countryside
Architecture, Italy, History, Travel, Art
17 points by gnabgib 7 days ago | 6 comments
Terak Museum (threedee.com)
What is a Terak?
Art, Museums, 3D Design
29 points by rbanffy 9 days ago | 11 comments
Atypography – Art Movement Introduction (atypography.com)
The long-awaited pact has been signed. Typography and abstraction have come to an agreement.  
Art, Typography, Design
28 points by gessha 10 days ago | 4 comments
Onfim's World: Child artists in history (resobscura.substack.com)
The sketches survived by chance, preserved on strips of birch bark found during Soviet archaeological excavations. They had been intended for use by school children from the medieval state of Novgorod. These children, who lived around the year 1250 CE, were meant to be learning how to read and write. But one student named Onfim used them to draw. And for this reason, Onfim has become immortal.
Art, History, Russia, Children
12 points by benbreen 10 days ago | 0 comments
Multipaint: Draw pictures with color limitations of 8-bit and 16-bit platforms (kameli.net)
With Multipaint, you can draw pictures with the color limitations of some typical 8-bit and 16-bit computer platforms.
Retro Gaming, Graphics, Art, Programming, Software
40 points by doener 10 days ago | 19 comments
Make Something Heavy (workingtheorys.com)
We're creating more than ever, but it weighs nothing.
Art, Creation, Meaning, Society
4 points by theturtletalks 10 days ago | 2 comments
Virtually Tour Salvador Dali Theatre Museum in Figueres, Spain (salvador-dali.org)
The Foundation is happy to make publicly available the virtual visit of the Theatre-Museum Dalí.
Virtual Reality, Art, Museums, Spain
9 points by rmason 11 days ago | 3 comments
Pablo Picasso's Stunning Repetitions (jillianhess.substack.com)
Two things were true of Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) from a young age: he was rebellious, and he loved to draw.
Art, Pablo Picasso, Biography
6 points by bookofjoe 12 days ago | 0 comments
Typographic Pictures Composed Entirely of Brass Rule (2024) (glyphdrawing.club)
In the dimly lit “printing cellar” of Media Museum and Archives Merkki is a remarkable and curious object. It’s a mosaic of tightly arranged brass rule and spacing material, made by a Finnish typographer Valto Malmiola in 1937.
Typography, Art, History, Finland
66 points by benbreen 13 days ago | 11 comments
Sheet Mewsic: Moritz von Schwind's Katzensymphonie (1868) (publicdomainreview.org)
Cats are not the most innately musical creatures. They cannot sing like the thrush or drone with the whales. But their mews and paws have been long incorporated into other kinds of improvisations.
Music, Cats, History, Art
8 points by tintinnabula 14 days ago | 0 comments
Show HN: A gallery of ChatGPT image styles for inspiration (imagestyles.ai)
Explore a variety of image styles generated by ChatGPT
Generative AI, Art, ChatGPT, AI Art, Inspiration
19 points by mwhuss 14 days ago | 1 comments
Crashing the Car of Pax Americana (epsilontheory.com)
“Can I confess something? I tell you this as an artist, I think you’ll understand. Sometimes when I’m driving… On the road at night… I see two headlights coming toward me. Fast. I have this sudden impulse to turn the wheel quickly, head-on into the oncoming car. I can anticipate the explosion. The sound of shattering glass. The flames rising out of the flowing gasoline.”
Politics, Social Commentary, Art
9 points by Ozarkian 17 days ago | 5 comments
The Treachery of Image Files (2020) (beyondloom.com)
I have recently come into possession of a series of exquisite miniatures which I pray are worthy of your esteemed attention.
Art, Photography, History
52 points by appleorchard46 19 days ago | 5 comments
Men's Weird Collections Inspired the Modern Museum: Cabinets of Curiosities (worldhistory.substack.com)
Welcome to Looking Through the Past! At its heart, this is a project in which I find a bunch of cool stuff every week and share it with you. It takes hours of research and writing to produce. If you’re new here, you can click the button below to subscribe.
History, Museums, Art, Collections
44 points by crescit_eundo 20 days ago | 16 comments
Salvador Dalí's Rare 1969 Illustrations for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (themarginalian.org)
In 1865, a Victorian mathematician wrote a fairy tale that would go on to live parallel lives as one of the world’s most beloved children’s books and a modernist masterwork of philosophy that mushrooms its yield of wisdom with each reading — one of humanity’s very few works, alongside perhaps Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man, which subtly and seamlessly fuse art, science, and philosophy.
Art, Literature, History
12 points by crescit_eundo 20 days ago | 2 comments
Images trapped in a feedback loop and analog fractals create each other (youtube.com)
Art, Fractals, Computer Graphics, Feedback Loops
16 points by thelightherder 21 days ago | 8 comments
Welcome to the Semantic Apocalypse (theintrinsicperspective.com)
An awful personal prophecy is coming true. Way back in 2019, when AI was still a relatively niche topic, and only the primitive GPT-2 had been released, I predicted the technology would usher in a “semantic apocalypse” wherein art and language were drained of meaning. In fact, it was the first essay ever posted here on The Intrinsic Perspective.
Artificial Intelligence, Language Models, Predictions, Art
7 points by paulpauper 22 days ago | 2 comments
Rothko Chapel (wikipedia.org)
The Rothko Chapel is a non-denominational chapel in Houston, Texas, founded by John and Dominique de Menil.
Art, Architecture, Religion, Texas
6 points by handfuloflight 22 days ago | 0 comments
CSS-Only Glitch Effect (muffinman.io)
Let me show you how I created a CSS-only image glitch effect. I was working on the robot poet and wanted my robotic bard to glitch - because it felt fitting given the quality of poetry it generates.
CSS, Web Development, Creative Projects, Art
5 points by stankot 22 days ago | 1 comments
An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip (theaiunderwriter.substack.com)
There is only one thing worse than being imitated, and that is not being imitated.
Art, Creativity, Inspiration
1503 points by participant3 22 days ago | 898 comments
Romeo and Juliet retold in plastic: 3D-Printable Braille Molds (printables.com)
Create accessible and cost effective braille media with your own custom 3D-printed positive and negative molds.
Accessibility, 3D Printing, Braille, Art
3 points by ramity 23 days ago | 0 comments
Animals Made from 13 Circles (2016) (dorithegiant.com)
Inspired by the Twitter logo, which is made from 13 perfect circles, I decided to give myself a design challenge.
Design, Art, Twitter, Social Media, Challenges
662 points by jihadjihad 24 days ago | 108 comments