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Cave painting

44,000-year-old hunting scene is earliest painted ‘story’ ever found

11 December 2019

Cave paintings discovered in Indonesia reveal ancient artists were conjuring imagined scenes 20,000 years earlier than we thought – but who painted them?
Mario Klingemann's Memories of Passersby

The Artist in the Machine opens our eyes to AI's amazing creativity

11 December 2019

Arthur I. Miller's sure-footed survey of machine art reveals a world of beauty, but his book slips a gear when it tries to marry creativity to consciousness

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