COURTESY YOUTUBE
VANTABLACK
Anish Kapoor has been given exclusive usage rights to VantaBlack, a recently invented material that absorbs 99.96 percent of light that hits it—and artists are angry. [Daily Mail]
THE FUTURE
Google’s artificial intelligence gets its first art show. [Wired]
The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation has decided to allow the public to freely reproduce the late artist’s work under new fair use laws. [Artforum]
OOPS
The city of Reims, France, commissioned a work of street art, only to promptly order it to be scrubbed off in an apparent case of miscommunication. [BBC]
DETAILS
Miniature artist Mar Cerdà on collaborating with Wes Anderson. [The Guardian]
“Armchair archeologists reveal details of life in ancient Egypt.” [The Art Newspaper]
EUROPE
In Berlin, the Pergamon Museum’s tours in Arabic are forging a bridge to refugees. [New York Times]
Here’s a group show at wellwellwell in Vienna. [Contemporary Art Daily]