"Although I was born in Arizona, I didn’t really become aware of the Southwest until I was about 7 years old, the first time I got a window seat on an airplane. This is, I must admit, an odd way of making a place’s acquaintance. You’re _...Read More_

"The articles written about the mildly transgressive Manhattan micro-scene known as Dimes Square are themselves evidence of a cultural drought; chroniclers of the zeitgeist are desperate for new fodder."

New York-based artist Ian Cheng has been creating live simulations since 2012. He explores the human mind and “an agent’s ability to deal with an ever-changing environment” by combining AI, video game technologies, and cognitive science. _...Read More_

What Immortalizing the 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' Theme Means for Music NFTs >"The token was minted in April. An auction is said to be _...Read More_

>"David Hackett Fischer’s “African Founders” examines the interplay of Black and white culture through the centuries."

"The project precedes the release of his newest film, about a performance artist who surgically removes his own organs in public."

>"Bradford, County Durham, Southampton and Wrexham are in the running to succeed Coventry."

"Fitzwilliam Museum, CambridgeExhibiting next to Old Masters, David Hockney’s work more than hold its own, its dazzling hues sometimes making the rest look dull in comparison"

Already a week in, CTM 2022 Contact asks how we might establish positively transformative modes of contact with other realities beyond our own, be it between people with different ways of life, in different parts of the world, between _...Read More_

“Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.” December weekends are for winter walks with Thoreau:

"Imagine you were Josh Oppenheimer, a Texas-born scholar and filmmaker drawn to the subject of genocide and political murder, spending year after year scrutinizing men who had butchered thousands of human beings or more without evident _...Read More_

“In an essay penned shortly before his death, David Graeber argued that post-pandemic, we can’t slip back into a reality where the way our society is organized — to _...Read More_

For Hammons, art is a mischievous game beyond limits. It perverts the logic of forms of belief, conventions of knowledge, and ways of seeing, to make the repressed visible in a manner that only an excellent joke could accomplish.