To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
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JAMES WALSH is appalled by the implications of introducing AI to the workplace
The Metropolitan Police deploying the use of live facial recognition technology in Croydon, south London, February 9, 2024.
If you can see past the relentless commodification you will be rewarded by enormously powerful work, suggests JENNY MITCHELL
CHRIS SEARLE revels in the one-off collaboration between an American polymath and a British Muslim, and detects the presence of their revolutionary forebear
GORDON PARSONS revels in an ebullient production of Shakespeare’s magical comedy
BRENT CUTLER welcomes a thoughtful analysis of the Erdogan regime, viewed through the evolving history of a neighbourhood in Istanbul
GORDON PARSONS regrets the price, but is dazzled by an outstandingly ambitious study of the way art restoration in particular, and culture in general was weaponised by the Nazis
The Algorithm: How AI Can Hijack Your Career And Steal Your Future
Hilke Schellmann, Hurst, £22
A FRIEND of mine once wrote a sketch about a management training guru, who claimed to have invented a tool that can tell “whether you’re a blue, a green, a red or... a dickhead.” Compared to the products and procedures documented in Hilke Schellmann’s The Algorithm: How AI can Hijack Your Career and Steal Your Future, the dickhead test is positively scientific.
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