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Despite Brexit, London is one of only two cities (the other is Paris) to have two museums in the top ten global attendance ranking for 2024.

1. Louvre/Paris - 8.7m
2. Vatican/Rome - 6.8m
3. British Museum/London - 6.4m
4. MOMA/5th Av./New York - 5.7m
5. Tate Modern/London - 4.6m
6. Shanghai Museum East - 4.2m
7. National Gallery of Art/Washington DC - 3.9m
8. National Museum/Seoul - 3.7m
9. Musee D'Orsay/Paris - 3.7m
10. Mueso Nacional de Anthropologia/Mexico City - 3.7m

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Paul Revere is mostly known for his midnight ride — his horseback journey in 1775 to warn Massachusetts militiamen that the British were coming. @gbhnews contends that the activist and artisan’s real legacy is in his political cartoons, in particular, “The Bloody Massacre,” a 1770 work that showed a group of colonists being fired upon by red-coated soldiers. “He really played a hand in … shaping public understanding of events,” says Boston Public Library curator Jay Moschella.

wgbh.org/news/local/2025-04-10

#PaulRevere #Boston #Massachusetts #History @histodons #Art #PoliticalCartoons #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

A colorful illustration depicts men in colonial clothing on the left falling at the spray of musket fire of red-coated soldiers on the right side of the image.
GBH · Were Paul Revere’s political cartoons more influential than his midnight ride?The Bostonian is best known for his perilous horseback journey 250 years ago. But scholars say his art helped fan the flames of dissent.

This crowdfunding thing, where platforms accept money from all over the world but only people based in certain countries can create campaigns, has bugged me a lot, so I wrote about it some more, wondering if it is a symptom of the colonial economic system that ensures money flows in only one direction. Read about it here, and let me know your thoughts!

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A girl in a yellow dress stands in a room with white walls, staring at a jigsaw puzzle on the floor. The wind blows the curtains.
Dilman Dila · The Plight of African Filmmakers Seeking Film FundsAs I researched crowdfunding options for my next feature film, Big Tree, it pissed me off to discover that all major platforms, including kickstarter, backerkit, and indiegogo, allow creators only …

There was huge backlash last month when OpenAI announced its new AI image generator and demonstrated it by showing Studio Ghibli-inspired pictures. The company's CEO, Sam Altman, responded to the criticism last Sunday by describing it as "democratization" of art creation. @ArtNews's digital director Harrison Jacobs says Altman's missed the point, quoting Ghibli founder Hayao Miyazaki. "I can’t watch this stuff and find [it] interesting. Whoever creates this stuff has no idea what pain is whatsoever. I am utterly disgusted. If you really want to make creepy stuff, you can go ahead and do it. I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.”

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SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 05: Sam Altman attends the 2025 Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at Barker Hangar on April 05, 2025 in Santa Monica, California.  (Photo by Taylor Hill/FilmMagic)
ARTnews.com · OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Continues to Miss the Point With AI ArtBy Harrison Jacobs

Vous avez sûrement dû voir passer les trends d’IA à la con. Avec des camarades on a décidé de les redessiner nous mêmes pour contrer l’utilisation de l’IA

Au lieu d’avoir Gibli dessiné par une IA je vous ai fait un Gibli dessiné par Modiie

Croyez moi que la larve en claquettes chaussettes ne pouvait que sortir de mon esprit 🤓👌