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Anadol said every artist wanted to see “what is beyond reality” and “perceive worlds that don’t exist.” A.I. was a vehicle for the imagination, one that, he said, could represent “hallucinations, dreams, fantasies.”The technology we are dealing with today is no longer “just a pen, or a printing press,” and “not just a car or a wheel.” Instead, “it is intelligence,” he said. “It is mimicking our reasoning at the moment, and it will evolve. It will turn into something else.” And that “has never happened in our history before.”Currently, he explained, A.I. is “50 percent human, 50 percent machine.”…

Using her arms as a makeshift clapboard, a Sudanese woman in a black hijab and black-and-white caftan clapped her hands together, signaling the beginning of the rehearsal. The other amateur Thespians, wearing comic stick-on mustaches, moved to their marks, improvising a scene in a women’s beauty salon where one patron’s hair is accidentally dyed blue.As the scene ended, all the women were in hysterics, ribbing each other over how they could better play their parts next time. Scenes like this are common at the Kuluhenna Creative Workshop, which is held at a community clubhouse on the outskirts of this Yorkshire…

The future of art is very much the theme of “Your Ghosts Are Mine: Expanded Cinema, Amplified Voices,” a film and video installation that coincides with this year’s Venice Biennale. Organized by Qatar Museums and featuring some 40 artists from the region, it speaks to the emergence of the Middle East as a force in various art forms, not to mention a force in changing the narrative on how the region is portrayed in film and art.The future is on the mind of Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the chairwoman of Qatar Museums and the Doha…

The margin of Claudia Sheinbaum’s election as Mexico’s president was the biggest in decades, and even as the votes were still being counted on Monday, it became clear that Mexico’s leftist governing party and its allies could be in a position to reshape the country’s political landscape.They appear on the verge of claiming large enough majorities in Congress to enact proposals to change the Constitution that have alarmed the opposition, including advancing contentious legislation that could potentially dismantle crucial checks on presidential power.Ms. Sheinbaum, the first woman and first Jewish person to be elected president, beat her opponent on Sunday…

Follow now for live coverage of day nine of the 2024 French OpenYou know those nights when you tell yourself you’re going to keep your wits about you and not stay out too late, but deep down you know you’re going to do it?That’s pretty much how ridiculous lateness feels at a tennis Grand Slam.After the Australian Open ended at 4:05 a.m. last year (3:40 a.m. this time) and the U.S. Open in September 2022 at 2:50 a.m., Roland Garros said in the early hours of Sunday morning: “Keep my biere” (by the record) This is the latest end time…

For about two hours on Monday morning, trading in shares of about 40 stocks on the New York Stock Exchange was halted after a technical glitch led to misquoted prices, including those of Berkshire Hathaway, which showed a drop of more than 99 percent.The error was fixed, the exchange said later, adding that any trades placed before the halt would be reviewed. It’s common for exchanges to reverse trades that are placed when prices are clearly incorrect.The outlandish numbers appeared soon after the opening bell, around 9:45, when Berkshire Hathaway’s Class A shares were priced at just $185.10 — a…

Janis Paige, an entrancing singer, dancer and actress who starred in the original 1954 Broadway production of the hit musical “The Pajama Game,” died on Sunday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 101.Her death was confirmed to The Associated Press by a longtime friend of hers, Stuart Lampert.Ms. Paige made her mark at 22 in the all-star 1944 film “Hollywood Canteen,” but exposure in a string of 17 movies over the next seven years left her with little more than a collection of minor beauty titles, like Miss Wingspread and Miss Naval Air Reserve. When she ran away…

When a Russian soldier appeared outside 98-year-old Lidiia Lomikovska’s shattered home in eastern Ukraine in late April, the first thing he did was shoot and kill the family dog.“What have you done?” her daughter-in-law, Olha, 66, shouted at the Russian. “He was protecting me.”“Now, I will protect you,” he told her, Olha recalled in an interview.Ms. Lomikovska — who lived through a famine orchestrated by Stalin that killed millions in the 1930s and the German occupation of her town, Ocheretyne, during World War II — said she did not know why her life has been bracketed by sorrow.But when war…

The NFL’s offseason schedule begins this week with three-day minicamps starting Tuesday for 10 teams. The remaining 22 teams will continue with organized team activities before holding mini-camps next week.Prior to minicamp, offseason meetings and on-site meetings are voluntary. But now is the mandatory work period, which means teams can fine players who choose not to participate.These practice sessions help coaches and players further prepare for training camp, which begins in late July, paving the way for the preseason and regular season.Here are some of the hottest storylines around the league as minicamp gets underway.deeperSandow: My favorite offseason move by…

On the eve of the closing day of a federal fraud trial in Minneapolis, a woman drove up in a Mazda to a juror’s home holding a Hallmark gift bag emblazoned with butterflies and flowers. Inside were wads of $100, $50 and $20 bills totaling roughly $120,000.The juror in the case, in which defendants are charged with using a charity to steal millions of dollars, was not home Sunday night when the unusual package arrived. But a relative of the juror grabbed it, according to an F.B.I. agent’s account.“This is for Juror 52,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson quoted the…