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Meet Rachel: the AI agent that phoned 3,000 pubs to price a pint
Over Paddy’s weekend 2026, a friendly Northern Irish “woman” called Rachel rang more than 3,000 pubs across all 32 counties to find out the price of a pint of Guinness. Over 1,000 gave a price. Only a handful seemed to realise Rachel was an AI voice agent. A data gap 14 years in the making read more
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Chicago, Meet Your New ‘Neighbors’: Expo Gets a New Satellite Fair, In a Luxe Gold Coast Apartment
Collector Mirka Serrato was walking her dog through Chicago’s affluent Gold Coast neighborhood when she came across Ramiro Verdugo, the groundsman tending to the garden at an imposing neoclassical residence. Both Latin American, they hit it off. She was looking for a place to live, and an apartment was available. She ended up living there read more
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Meet Maia Chao, the Art World Anthropologist Making Her Whitney Biennial Debut
Drawing from her background in anthropology, Maia Chao often approaches art with an observation, then a question: Where does the art in doctors’ offices come from? How do you make a living as an artist? Building on these inquiries, often through mimicry or replication, leads to works that can make the mundane feel absurd, beautiful, read more
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Meet Cute: Collaboratove Duo DABSMYLA Communicates through Color, Pop Culture & The Power of Piles of Cute – Hi-Fructose Magazine
The project did come with challenges. For artists who cross over into the mainstream commercial realm, growing pains come with the growing venues that contain their vision. “Because we had only ever built experiences like this for gallery settings, one of the main things was that we didn’t take into consideration television and camera angles read more
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Traditional African Baskets and Pottery Meet Pop Culture in Donté K. Hayes' Sculptures
Redolent of African basketry, hairstyles, headwear, and pottery, Donté K. Hayes’ abstract ceramic sculptures may be interpreted as poetic vessels, even though they lack traditional openings. While we easily associate clay pots and round woven forms with ideas related to storage, protection, and even spiritual significance, they also nod to the human head as a read more
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Meet the Speakerhead Wiring the Art World for Sound
Editor’s Note:This story is part ofNewsmakers, an ARTnews series featuring conversations with the figures shaping how the art world is changing right now. One of the standout works in “Art of Noise,” an exhibition of music-related design at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York, is a listening room devoted to a sound read more
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Meet the Artist in El Salvador’s First-Ever Venice Biennale Pavilion
This spring, El Salvador will present a pavilion at the Venice Biennale for the first time in its history, during the contemporary art festival’s 61st iteration from May 9 to November 22. Painter and sculptor J. Oscar Molina, born in El Salvador in 1971 and currently residing in Southampton, New York, will represent the country read more
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