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To mark this week’s launch of Final Fantasy 16, Square Enix has revealed that protagonist Clive Rosfield’s sword has been turned into a real weapon for an exhibit at the Tower Of London. Available for fans to visit from today (June 20) until July 19, the Tower Of London exhibit will host a real-world replica of Invictus — Clive Rosfield’s sword from Final Fantasy 16. The sword is being displayed in partnership with the Royal Armouries, and is being housed on the first floor of London’s White Tower. According to Square…

The Neanderthals weren’t that different from you and me—which is maybe not that strange after all, considering we probably have a bit of a Neanderthal in us. Credit: Tom Björklund No one knows what happened when we, Homo sapiens, first encountered the Neanderthals. But we know we met. We know that for thousands of years we lived…

Keith Haring climbed atop scaffolding inside a classroom building at Pasadena’s ArtCenter College of Design and began to quietly but determinedly paint. It was late November 1989, and the New York artist and activist, who was HIV positive at the time, had been invited to the college to speak to students and paint a mural on the occasion of the second World AIDS Day.Haring popped a funk tape into his boombox, took a swig of mineral water and made his first fuchsia brush stroke on an unmarked wood panel, no pencil sketches…

Article content The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains is coming to Toronto’s Better Living Centre at Exhibition Place, starting June 16. Article content The 20,000-square-foot exhibit is described in a release as an “audio-visual sensorial experience” and features more than 350 Pink Floyd artifacts and objects from the band’s five-decade career. Article content It will include “handwritten lyrics, musical instruments, stage props, and items from the personal collections of the band members, while combining…

Researchers got tiny worms high on cannabis to see how it affected their food preferences and found striking similarities between them and us. The discovery could lead to the development of targeted drug therapies.The phenomenon brought on by cannabis use and known colloquially as ‘the munchies’ has been known about for centuries, although scientists have a fancy term for it: hedonic amplification of eating.Hedonism is the ethical theory that proposes that pleasure represents the highest good and that the proper aim of…

Instead of going to Coachella this weekend, I trekked all over L.A. — from Marni’s summer collection pre-launch to the Museum of Contemporary Art’s annual gala. I’m Steven Vargas, your L.A. Goes Out host, and here are the top events for this upcoming weekend recommended by the crew (sign up here for the newsletter):Weekly Countdown 1. ‘Alake Shilling: A Bug’s Life’Inspired by the 1998 Pixar animated movie of the same name, this new ceramic sculpture exhibit at Jeffrey Deitch in Hollywood is a more fantastical…

Mexican government experts said Thursday they are concerned that a traveling display of mummies from the 1800s may pose a health risk to the public. The preserved corpses were unintentionally mummified when they were buried in crypts in dry, mineral-rich soil in the state of Guanajuato. Some still have hair, leathery skin and their original clothing. But the National Institute of Anthropology and History said in a…

After two decades, the Hammer Museum’s $90-million reinvention is complete. The Westwood art museum introduced the additions — a new lobby, bank gallery and sculpture terrace — with a bang. I attended the opening celebration Saturday and danced to music by DJ Pee Wee (a.k.a. Anderson .Paak) between browsing the new exhibitions and installations. The Times’ Deborah Vankin reported on the Hammer’s large-scale, immersive installations and all the updates to the space. If you’re still intrigued, check it out for…

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Advances in artificial intelligence are coming so hard and fast that a museum in San Francisco, the beating heart of the tech revolution, has imagined a memorial to the demise of humanity.​"Sorry for killing most of humanity person with smile cap and mustache," says a monitor welcoming a visitor to the "Misalignment Museum", a new exhibit on the controversial technology.The pieces in this temporary show mix the disturbing with the comic, and this first display has AI disburse pithy observations to the visitors that cross…