Rows of square painted portraits with blurred, smeared faces and long hair against light and dark backgrounds, in muted warm and cool tones.

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Grid of blurred painted portraits facing forward

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Contemporary philosophers and art theorists are actively discussing the creative output of neural networks and artificial intelligence, from rethinking authorship and the creative process, calling AI a co-author, to debates about the authentic…

Most philosophers agree that AI is merely a tool and one of the extensions of the human mind, and art historians, curators and artists are not standing aside from these reflections either. One answer is the exhibition "Humans and Neural Networks: Who Creates Whom?", which opened this week

Art

Psychedelia, Spanish Style

Catalan artist Joan Pons (1927-1984), Untitled work, lithograph, 1967

An American soldier in a helmet and a Soviet soldier in a side cap stand with their arms around each other in a black and white photograph.

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Soviet and American troops meet on the Elbe on 25 April 1945

On 25 April 1945, exactly 80 years ago, the meeting on the Elbe took place. Advance units of the Soviet army met troops of the US First Army. After that, Hitler's army lasted for about two weeks

Golden wheat ears in the foreground, with two tall pale twin towers and lower buildings behind them under a blue sky with clouds.

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Wheat field in front of the World Trade Center towers in New York

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Agnes Denes sowed a hectare of a former landfill in New York with wheat

In 1982, a wheat field sprang up in Manhattan, literally at the foot of the Twin Towers. The territory of a former rubbish dump, which was standing vacant at the time, had been allocated for the creation of an art installation. But instead of a sculpture park, the artist Agnes

Dark silhouette of the International Space Station against the orange disc of the Sun, with sunspots and a fibrous surface texture.

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American astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy photographs the ISS against the Sun

The ISS passes the Sun. Photograph taken by the American astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy

Archaeology · Museums · Rome

A Two-Headed Snake Bracelet from One of the Most Elegant Houses in Pompeii Is Adorned with a Disc Depicting the Moon Goddess Luna/Selene, Wearing a Crescent Diadem and Surrounded by Seven Stars, Her Head Covered with a Crescent-Shaped Veil

The bracelet was so astonishing a find that the place where it was discovered came to be called the House of the Golden Bracelet. It was found on the arm of a woman who, apparently, had tried to escape the catastrophe by flight. Another fugitive was carrying caskets of gold

Illustration of a man in a dark frock coat seated by a cradle, with a woman sewing and another woman at a window behind him.

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British artist Angela Barrett and her illustrations for “Anna Karenina”

Illustrations by the British artist Angela Barrett for "Anna Karenina". Better than any screen adaptation

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The Athenian Acropolis in Photographs of the 1890s and Today

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From 22 May to 13 July 2025, the Andrey Cheglakov Foundation on Prechistenka will host Boris Kocheishvili's solo exhibition "Cloud, Lake, Tower", timed to the artist's 85th birthday

From 22 May to 13 July 2025, the Andrey Cheglakov Foundation on Prechistenka will host Boris Kocheishvili's solo exhibition "Cloud, Lake, Tower", timed to the artist's 85th birthday. The project will present to the wider public the many-sided work of one of the

Engraved page of an old book with musical staves and images of a rooster, a hen with chicks, a cuckoo, a quail and a parrot, with notation of their calls.

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Jesuit Athanasius Kircher notated birdsong in the seventeenth century

The seventeenth-century German polymath and Jesuit monk Athanasius Kircher is known for his description of China, his microscopic researches and his unsuccessful attempt to decipher Egyptian writing. But we understand that this man was a genuine genius when we see his musical notation of birdsong

Alexandr Radayev