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This sounds like an act of desperation. And stupidity.

He was one of the most feared and revered British art critics of his generation — and now, nearly a decade after his death, Brian Sewell could be about to wield his pen once more.

Deadline understands that London’s historic Evening Standard newspaper has been making plans to revive its former writer using artificial intelligence.

Two sources said AI Sewell has been assigned to review The National Gallery’s new Vincent van Gogh exhibition, titled Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers.

It is not clear how the AI will work or if the Standard has permission from Sewell’s estate. The critic was survived by his partner, the artist Dean Marsh.

The idea is part of an attempt to reinvent the Standard, a 197-year-old institution, after it stopped daily presses last week. It will pivot to weekly editions from Thursday.

The embrace of AI has raised eyebrows among staff after the Standard made around 150 layoffs, including 70 editorial roles, as part of the move to weekly editions.
 

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This sounds like an act of desperation. And stupidity.

Perhaps they might consider H P Lovecraft as an art critic. Here's what ChatGPT made of the current Van Gogh exhibition at London's National Gallery:

In the cavernous halls of the National Gallery, where colors writhe upon the canvases like eldritch shapes, Van Gogh’s tortured soul emerges from the brushstrokes—each one a ghastly reminder of the madness lurking beneath the mundane. The sunflowers gleam not with life but with a dreadful cosmic energy, a vibration of unseen dimensions, whispering of realms beyond mortal comprehension. Shadows loom even in the brightest yellows, hinting at forbidden knowledge that should never be uncovered by mere mortals.

The landscapes tremble with unnatural vitality, as if the very earth beneath Van Gogh's feet pulsed with an alien rhythm, casting his fields and skies into eerie hues. His self-portraits, gazing not out at the world, but through it, challenge the onlooker to confront the abyss within themselves—a void, echoing and infinite, a darkness so profound that one might lose themselves in it entirely.

As I moved from one canvas to the next, I could feel the oppressive weight of Van Gogh's visions, as though the very air thickened with each tortured swirl of paint. The exhibit is not a simple display of art, but a journey into the unknown, a descent into the madness that lay beyond the stars and the fragile boundaries of human understanding. To witness it is to be forever haunted by the nameless, faceless horrors that echo from the void.
Then I asked it to try Raymond Chandler

The Van Gogh exhibition felt like a case gone sideways from the start. I walked into the gallery, and there it was: sunflowers, staring at me like they had a secret. The paint was thick, layered like trouble that wouldn’t quit, swirling around me. Van Gogh’s self-portraits? A man with a look that said, “I’ve seen too much, and I’m not telling.” Every piece was a puzzle, but none had a solution. It was like chasing shadows in a dark alley—just when you think you’ve got it, it slips through your fingers.
and then Dr Seuss

Oh, the Van Gogh you will see!
With colors that swirl, like a wild, windy sea!
His sunflowers are there, big, bold, and bright,
But stare too long, and they’ll give you a fright!

His self-portraits frown, with eyes full of woe,
"I've been through a lot, you don't want to know!"
The landscapes are crazy, the skies are all bendy,
You might wonder if Van Gogh’s brush was too friendly!

So step into his world—each stroke is a ride,
But hang on tight, it’s a colorful slide!
 

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Speaking of Van Gogh.

The two environmental activists who threw a can of tomato soup on Vincent Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” painting have been sentenced to two years in prison.

In October of 2022, Phoebe Plummer, then 21, and Anna Holland, then 20, entered London’s National Gallery museum and proceeded to douse the well-known work with soup. Both activists, who are affiliated with the group Just Stop Oil, then glued themselves to the wall next to the painting and used the subsequent social media spectacle to broadcast their concerns about climate change to the world. The two activists were sentenced Friday in Southwark crown court in London for having caused an estimated £10,000 of damage to the painting’s frame, The Guardian reports.
I'm not sure they're going to get the outcome they want from this sort of vandalism.
 

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10-Minute Challenge: Hiroshige’s ‘Sudden Rain’
We’d like you to look at one piece of art for 10 minutes, uninterrupted.

That’s what’s happening in this Japanese woodblock print — only it’s Tokyo (then called Edo), the year is 1857, and we’re crossing the Sumida River. It’s one of the last works by Utagawa Hiroshige, a master Japanese printmaker whose landscapes continue to define a style more than 150 years after his death.

This summer scene, titled “Great Bridge: Sudden Rain at Atake,” is one in a series of at least 118 different views Hiroshige created about life in 19th-century Edo across the seasons.
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We know he was uncannily observant.
 

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I'm regularly amazed at how a single image painted in a psychiatric hospital holds so much sway over modern culture. One might call it crazy (but I wouldn't!).
 
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Tiny house with erotic frescoes uncovered in Pompeii-The Guardian

A tiny house featuring erotic frescoes is the latest discovery in the ruins of the ancient Roman city of Pompeii. Experts say the exquisitely decorated abode, called the House of Phaedra after the mythological queen of Athens, sheds light on the changing architectural styles in the first century AD but is also further proof that the residents of Pompeii had an appetite for sensual art.
 
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Not a fan of lo mein? I'm sure it's vegetarian, so there should be no issue for the horse.
 
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