Female-founded AI company Diligent Robotics creates robot assistants to help healthcare workers and its Moxie robot assistant is now being used to support the Kendra Cares program. The creative arts program by the fashion accessories brand Kendra Scott helps to bring the experience of the brand's Color Bar to pediatric hospitals across the country so that patients and their caregivers get to design their own customized jewelry at no cost.
Moxie the robot is being introduced to this program at a time when the in-person experience is going virtual. The robot assistant helps patients digital design their custom Color Bar pieces and delivers the finished products. Patients can choose colored stones and metal styles to create their piece of jewelry and the experience helps people get through tough times by providing an uplifting and comforting activity.
At Leila Heller Gallery in Dubai, Indian contemporary artist Manish Nai invites viewers to reconsider the materials that surround them. In In Search of Material within Material, a solo exhibition bringing together works created between 2021 and 2026, discarded objects, industrial surfaces and familiar everyday materials become the starting point for an exploration of form, memory and transformation.
There are artists who paint what they see, and others who paint what they remember, what they have lost, or what words cannot express. Etel Adnan did all three.
Some artists paint what they see. Others paint what they carry within them. For Paul Guiragossian, art became a language for the human experience — a way to express belonging, separation, resilience and the quiet strength of togetherness.