"To be a human being among people and to remain one forever, no matter in what circumstances, not to grow despondent and not to lose heart — that’s what life is all about, that's its task."
The latest on the student protests in France, the art world’s AI problem, one-on-one with Rosana Paulino, and Beer With a Painter featuring Melissa Brown.
We don’t have written records, but I’m imagining that groups of cavemen made decisions around the fire in largely the same way we run sophisticated organizations today. About a hundred years ago, three disciplines helped create the modern world: Scientific management used a
On protest, business as usual, and the surreal experience of attending an art fair while smelling burning plastic.
In the legal system, art created by refugees and incarcerated people can serve both as a form of therapy and as evidence of mass atrocities.
As an artist who lived through the Reagan-era Culture Wars, I recommend Isaac Butler’s “The Perfect Moment” for the stories that parallel our current fight to defend creative expression.
The rapper called his forthcoming film, "JEAN," a “love letter” to the late artist and ’80s New York in his announcement on October 21.
It’s a provocative and discursive exploration of how artists respond to our late-capitalist epoch, but its focus on “rupture” raises questions.
The One Question I Can’t Stand at Restaurants . “The idea of a restaurant I’d never been to using a dossier on me to decide, say, where I should sit, what I was likely to order, even whether I should be given a reservation at all, gave me chills.”
The researchers identified discrepancies between the celestial alignments in June 1889 and Vincent van Gogh’s painted night sky.
Deborah Cook, costumer designer at stop-motion animation studio Laika, discusses creating tiny costumes for puppets in a fantastical world set in the forests of Portland, Oregon
“ US households are paying 62% more for drinking water than they did a decade ago — outpacing inflation, grocery prices and household incomes.”
“I often say that my favorite material is the next one, the one I haven’t worked with yet.”
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