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Govee included a book on ‘White Supremacy’ in its website imagery

The sort of light reading material you’d expect to find in a child’s bedroom. | compiled by The Verge Companies often include background props in their product imagery that serve as set dressing, but one of Govee's decorative choices is raising some eyebrows. An eagle-eyed Verge reader spotted that two copies of a book with "white supremacy" plastered on the spine were included in a lifestyle image on Govee's website, in a scene that seemingly depicts a child's bedroom. You'd be forgiven for assuming that this is the result of some failed generative AI experiment, or the work of a rogue designer. (The image didn't contain any C2PA and SynthID data when we checked, but that doesn't necessarily rule out that something was generated with AI to … Read the full story at The Verge.

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‘Shocking? It’s only what you see in ancient temples’: painter T Venkanna on his joyous carnivals of copulation

Penises, vaginas and breasts abound in the Indian painter’s work. As the son of a Hindu priest, he says his orgasmic scenes give us a way to consider religion T Venkanna’s paintings land like a sucker-punch. At the centre of his first institutional solo show at London’s Studio Voltaire is an overbearing altarpiece, modified by two squat side panels to take the overall shape of a juvenile dick drawing. Perched at the bottom, on either side, are Adam and Eve. Their backs are turned as they look out on an orgasmic thicket of desire. A female figure is pleasured by another’s nose, someone copulates with the hindquarters of an animal and others fondle in a kaleidoscopic blur of colours and styles that make Hieronymus Bosch look restrained. But carnal enjoyment is merely the footnote. “It is a way to consider many things, including the myth of religions,” says Venkanna. Scattered within this longing landscape are stony figures redolent of India’s pantheon of gods and goddesses. Women worship a topiary lingam – the aniconic depiction of Shiva – and a man caresses a statuesque woman’s breast (while drinking from her vagina). Graphic? “That is what you see in ancient temples,” says Venkanna. “People touch the breasts of sculptures so that over time they become very smooth and shiny.”

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