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Friendship is a lifeline twined of truth and tenderness. That we extend it to each other is benediction enough. To extend it across the barrier of biology and sentience, to another creature endowed with a wholly other consciousness, partakes of the miraculous. Born in England
From Niki de Saint Phalle to the subway, time is running out to see some of our favorite art in the city.
“The sense of freedom I felt in New York had nothing to do with the art world,” the painter told Hyperallergic .
Accompanying a show at The Met, The Art of the Literary Poster examines the commercial, artistic, and political dimensions of the late-19th-century form.
Eugene Richards’s sensitive photographs in Remembrance Garden are rooted in over 100 visits he took to the grounds after enduring COVID in 2020.
Miles Astray’s photo of a pink flamingo on a shore was disqualified after it was selected for an award meant for AI-generated images.
Any fully open system of digital communication will corrode over time. Bad messages will crowd out the good ones. The new normal: Someone finds a database of every residential property, then another of cell phones. An AI is trained to call every homeowner, every day, asking if