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Leading French Gallery Air de Paris Declaring Bankruptcy and Closing

Leading French Gallery Air de Paris Declaring Bankruptcy and Closing

Published by José Betancourt

Air de Paris, a leading French gallery, will close its doors and declare bankruptcy after 36 years in business, the gallery’s cofounders, Florence Bonnefous and Edouard Merino, tell Cultured.  Bonnefous says the gallery owes money only to the landlord and the bank, not her artists. The gallery is closing, per Cultured, due to its “fragile” finances as well as the founders’ health (Bonnefous suffers from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, and Mennino also has unspecified health issues). Related Articles The gallery worked with artists including Trisha Donnelly, Joseph Grigely, Pati Hill, Pierre Joseph, Allen Ruppersberg, Lily van der Stokker, Mona Varichon, and Amy Vogel, all of whom were included in its farewell exhibition, “Oh What a Time,” notes Cultured, adding that the dealers were early advocates for now-renowned figures such as Liam Gillick, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Carsten Höller, Pierre Huyghe, Dorothy Iannone, Paul McCarthy, Philippe Parreno, and Sturtevant. “Little by little,” Bonnefous told the magazine, “we realized we wanted to do things differently, and while reasons for closing are a mix of many things, it was also …

Reform UK Accused Of Declaring War On Workers

Reform UK Accused Of Declaring War On Workers

Published by Sam Flores

Reform UK have been accused of “declaring war on British workers” over plans to scrap new employment rights if they win the next general election. Deputy leader Richard Tice will unveil the policy in a major speech on Tuesday setting out the party’s right-wing approach to growing the economy and tackling the cost of living. Tice, who is Reform’s business, trade and energy spokesman, will promise to bring in a Great Repeal Bill to scrap new employment rights rules introduced by Labour. It would also get rid of the government’s pledge to achieve Net Zero by 2050 and improved rights for renters. Tice will say those policies are “all well intentioned but kill jobs, hinder growth, investment and prosperity”. “This will all help lower inflation and bring down bills for consumers,” he will say. Tice will make his speech just two days before voters go to the polls in the crunch Gorton and Denton by-election, where Reform are in a three-way fight with Labour and the Greens. Labour chair Anna Turley said: “Reform have formally …

Woman Uses AI to Apologize for Burning Down House, Biting Cop and Declaring She Had AIDS

Woman Uses AI to Apologize for Burning Down House, Biting Cop and Declaring She Had AIDS

Published by José Betancourt

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images The point of making an apology is that it should be sincere. It also helps if you put some actual effort into making it. A judge in New Zealand is being forced to mull over these criteria after receiving a written apology from a defendant that appears to be generated with — and why else would we be talking about it on this website — an AI model. The defendant had a lot to answer for: she pleaded guilty to arson and other charges after burning down a house. She also bit a police officer while in custody, after which she apparently “took delight” in telling the cop that she had AIDS, The New Zealand Herald first reported. When it came time for sentencing, the judge, Tom Gilbert of the district court in Christchurch, confronted the defendant about the apology letters she sent, one to the judge and one for the victims. “The issue of remorse is interesting,” Gilbert said according to a transcript viewed by …

Warnock, declaring ‘spiritual crisis,’ urges public, private sectors to help needy

Warnock, declaring ‘spiritual crisis,’ urges public, private sectors to help needy

Published by Sam Flores

WASHINGTON (RNS) — Shortly after joining Senate colleagues in midweek voting for a review of an environmental standard, Sen. Raphael Warnock sat in his Hart Senate Building office and talked about prayer and policy. The senior pastor of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church recently declared that the U.S. is in the midst of a “spiritual crisis,” a topic he discussed at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, and in the pulpit from which the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. used to preach. Warnock, a Democrat, said prayer undergirds his policy efforts to address the troubles he sees across Georgia and the rest of the country. Though he seldom gets to the weekly Senate Prayer Breakfast on Wednesdays, his private prayer time is a regular part of his schedule. It’s enhanced by reading the writing of Christian mystic Howard Thurman and praying with “a couple of prayer partners.” “I have a very strong prayer life, and it is specially activated early in the morning before the noise of the world gets started,” he said …