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Josh and Eamonn are joined by James Wellwood for Episode 95 of Spill The Art Tea.This week, we look at what happened when a New Jersey high school removed phones for the entire school day, clothing designed to camouflage its wearer from AI cameras, and the mysterious private buyer who paid $1.51 million for Abraham Lincoln’s bloodstained gloves.We also examine an extraordinary new AI video, before asking why typewriters, cassette players, instant cameras and BlackBerry-style phones are making a comeback.Stories this week:📵 Phones leave the classroom👕 Camouflage designed for AI🧤 Lincoln’s bloodstained gloves🤖 AI video’s latest breakthrough📼 The return of retro technologyA week where attention, surveillance, historical ownership and our increasingly uncertain relationship with technology collide.🎧 Listen to the full podcast on your favourite platform🎙️ More episodes at @nuacollectivewww.nuacollective.comLove Art ♥️ Support ArtistsSPILL THE ART TEA: YouTube, Thurs 1900 BST.Read our latest edition of Anecdotes — OUT NOW!https://nuacollective.ie/anecdotes

Josh and Eamonn discuss an artist whose digital work was mistaken for “AI slop,” why grey and beige have taken over the designed world, the SpaceX rocket that created a new crater on the Moon, Latin America’s viral aura battles, and the photographer suing Elizabeth Peyton over her Oasis painting.Stories this week include:🤖 Digital art mistaken for AI🎨 The world’s colour recession🌕 SpaceX creates a lunar crater✨ Aura battles become a competitive sport📸 The Oasis photograph behind a $1.92 million painting A week where artistic authorship, colourless consumer culture, lunar debris, viral performance and copyright law collide.🎧 Listen to the full podcast on your favourite platform🎙️ More episodes at @nuacollectivewww.nuacollective.comLove Art ♥️ Support ArtistsSPILL THE ART TEA: YouTube, Thurs 1900 BST.Read our latest edition of Anecdotes — OUT NOW!https://nuacollective.ie/anecdotes

Josh and Eamonn are joined by Maya Bansal for Episode 93 of Spill The Art Tea, discussing a huge study linking birth order to differences in disease risk, Sadiq Khan’s argument for keeping London’s museums free, MIT’s recyclable alternative to spandex, whether sauna training could help people cope with heatwaves, and the scientists using OnlyFans to fund decades of marmot research.Stories this week include:🧠 Birth order and health risks🏛️ The case for keeping museums free♻️ A recyclable alternative to spandex🔥 Saunas as preparation for heatwaves🦫 Marmots take over OnlyFans A week where public culture, sustainable fashion, human health and some remarkably enterprising rodents collide.🎧 Listen to the full podcast on your favourite platform🎙️ More episodes at @nuacollectivewww.nuacollective.comLove Art ♥️ Support ArtistsSPILL THE ART TEA: YouTube, Thurs 1900 BST.Learn more about Maya here: www.instagram.com/mayakaurbansal/Read our latest edition of Anecdotes — OUT NOW!https://nuacollective.ie/anecdotes

Josh and Eamonn are joined by Matt Hancock for Episode 92 of Spill The Art Tea, discussing an architectural restorer fighting Rome's graffiti problem, a museum exhibition recreating the scents of Ancient Rome, why major museums are increasingly teaming up to buy artworks, an artist selling trash collected outside Taylor Swift's wedding, and Gagosian retreating from gallery spaces in London and Basel.Stories this week include:🎨 Rome's graffiti battle🏛️ The scents of Ancient Rome🤝 Museums sharing artworks🗑️ Taylor Swift wedding trash📉 Gagosian closes gallery spaces A week where art conservation, ancient smells, celebrity garbage and the economics of the international art market collide.Learn more about Matt here:https://www.instagram.com/deco.luxe.music/ ⁨@DECO-LUXE⁩  Pre-save Matt's new music here:https://ditto.fm/mellow-deco-luxe?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio🎧 Listen to the full podcast on your favourite platform🎙️ More episodes at @nuacollectivewww.nuacollective.comLove Art ♥️ Support ArtistsSPILL THE ART TEA: YouTube, Thurs 1900 BST.Read our latest edition of Anecdotes — OUT NOW! https://nuacollective.ie/anecdotesCalling all creatives:Submit your article before September 1st to be included in our next issue of Anecdotes email: [email protected]

Josh and Eamonn are joined by April Brucker for Episode 91 of Spill The Art Tea, discussing schools testing pepper-spraying drones as part of emergency response plans, artists taking AI companies including Google, Meta and Anthropic to court over copyright, a museum that accidentally became an internet sensation thanks to whale-themed one-star reviews, an artist suing Instagram over alleged censorship, and a new typeface designed to make AI scraping far more difficult.Stories this week include:🚁 Pepper-spraying drones in schools⚖️ Artists sue AI companies🐋 A museum goes viral from one-star whale reviews📱 An artist takes Instagram to court🔤 A font designed to "poison" AIA week where creativity, copyright, technology, artificial intelligence, and internet culture collide in ways that are shaping the future of the creative industries.🎧 Listen to the full podcast on your favourite platform🎙️ More episodes at @nuacollectivewww.nuacollective.comLove Art ♥️ Support ArtistsSPILL THE ART TEA: YouTube, Thurs 1900 BST.Learn more about April here:Youtube:  @AprilBruckerComedy  Website: www.aprilbrucker.tvBuy her book: www.amazon.com/dp/B0H3TW6ZJ1Read our latest edition of Anecdotes — OUT NOW!https://nuacollective.ie/anecdotes-nua-art-magazine/