- Former Google software engineer who quit in 2022 and now runs Swil Arts as a watercolor artist in San Diego.
- Uses AI for business tasks—planning, bookkeeping, copyediting, mock-ups—and trains custom GPTs as an art coach and opportunity filter, but never to generate or ideate her actual artwork.
- Prefers sketching on location and sharing “California moments worth keeping”; cautious about AI’s ethical and environmental impacts yet optimistic it can augment (not replace) artists.
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- Visitors are thrilled — crowds are marveling at the vivid colors and intricate detail of the 1,000‑year‑old Bayeux Tapestry on display in London.
- The first tickets sold out fast (about £2.5m) and sparked a national "Bayeux craze" — newspapers' guides, online ticket scrambles and even a nearby pub rebranding as "The Beer Tapestry."
- The 70m embroidery has left France for the first time since the 11th century for a 10‑month loan to the British Museum, part of a cultural swap that saw King Charles and Emmanuel Macron at the preview.
- Chinese artists pulled out of the Gwangju Biennale in protest after organizers allowed Taiwanese works to be labeled the "Taiwan Pavilion," turning an art show into a political dispute.
- Organizers apologized, saying a contract with the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts and a later insistence on the "Taiwan Pavilion" name created confusion.
- The episode underscores broader China–Taiwan–South Korea sensitivities and could strain diplomatic ties, though any escalation remains uncertain.
- Artist David Cotterrell has turned four old Ford Fiestas into water-filled cars whose interior water levels rise and fall in real time with Plymouth tides.
- He removed the engines and fitted tanks, pumps, sensors and bespoke software to create a tiny "intertidal" environment inside ordinary vehicles.
- The installations are displayed around Plymouth (Tinside Lido, Mount Batten, Tavistock Place and Mount Edgcumbe) to make people pause and notice the city's connection to the sea.
- The Trump administration warned it may halt collaborations, loans and grants to the Smithsonian, accusing the National Museum of American History of promoting "extreme political activism."
- Smithsonian leaders push back, saying the museums preserve and study history objectively and rejecting the report's characterization.
- The White House has launched a sweeping review and is pushing to reshape the Board of Regents, moves that could change oversight before the midterms.
- The striking modernist "Rike Tubes" arts complex in Tbilisi is being demolished, touching off debate about the city's skyline and the building's role as a symbol of the previous pro‑European government.
- Tourists are flocking to snap last‑minute photos while locals are split — some dislike the design but worry demolition money could be better spent on social needs.
- Italian architects Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas condemned the demolition as erasing history and said they’d received thousands of supportive messages.
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