Myonghi Kang in her atelier in Jeju, Korea. Photograph by Gary Yeh. Courtesy of Villepin.
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What You Need To Know: Hong Kong gallery Villepin recently opened a new exhibition devoted to the dreamlike canvases of Korean artist Myonghi Kang.
In her works, Myonghi (b. 1947, Daegu, South Korea) renders shapes and colors that call to mind the natural world blue skies, blooming flowers, approaching storms but through a language of gestural abstraction.
Petrolheads are fond of describing cars as works of art, but this month, BMW has taken the concept a step further. In collaboration with the American generative artist and self-described creative technologist Nathan Shipley, BMW essentially “taught” a computer to recognise visual art and then asked it to create its own work based on what it had seen. This artwork was then projected in three dimensions onto a virtual 8 Series.
Using open-source “StyleGan” AI software to cross-reference more than 50,000 artworks spanning 900 years of history, BMW and Shipley, as well as fellow collaborator Gary Yeh, the collector and founder of art newsletter ArtDrunk, generated what they describe as “the Ultimate AI Masterpiece” – a computer-generated amalgamation of myriad artistic movements and historic styles from around the world, as well as 50 specifically chosen works by artists that BMW has worked with over the last half-century. A number of different designs have been revealed a
Couples could be $2,160 better off in the coming year as the offset is extended
Move expected in Tuesday s budget helps those making up to $126,000 a year
The lucrative tax offset worth up to $1,080 for singles and $2,160 for couples
Available for past three income years and set to be extended for another year
Extension set to be made in budget will cost the federal government $7billion
Single parents who want to buy a home, school leavers and retirees who want to boost their superannuation accounts are set to be big winners from this year s federal Budget.
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg will deliver his second Budget speech in seven months at 7.30pm on Tuesday as he aims to rebuild an economy that was sent into recession by the coronavirus lockdowns.
Mr Frydenberg is already planning more big spending next financial year, with Deloitte predicting a Budget deficit of $87 billion, a figure well below this year s estimated $167 billion shortfall. We won t be undertaking any sharp pivots towards austerity. We want more people in jobs and in better paying jobs. This is what our fiscal strategy is designed to achieve, he said.
On Tuesday at 7.30pm Josh Frydenberg will hand down the federal budget
His focus is on supporting the economy to recover from Covid-19 pandemic
Treasurer also set to announce axing of threshold for employers to pay super
Means workers do not need to earn $450 a month before employers contribute
Worker on $400 a month is $450 better off within a year of change being made