>"We have all known people who are chronically early, born with some sort of time signature distortion. These people receive zeitgeist signals much earlier than everyone else. They are certain artists and writers, music people, _...Read More_

"Ever since the rise of powerful AI image generators took the internet by storm last year, artists have been speaking out about the threat to their livelihoods, especially those whose work has been used to train the models without prior _...Read More_

"In tandem with the December 2022 print edition of A.i.A., the Religion Issue, we revisit this article from the July 1997 issue. Originally published as “Sacred Silhouettes,” the article was penned by Robert Farris Thompson (1932-2021), a _...Read More_

"SINCE 1984, Andres Serrano has developed a complex iconography that simultaneously exorcises the artist’s experiences of Catholicism, criticizes the commercialization of sacred imagery and pays idiosyncratic homage to ideas that Christ _...Read More_

"Creation is the artist’s true function; where there is no creation there is no art. But it would be a mistake to ascribe this creative power to an inborn talent. In art, the genuine creator is not just a gifted being, but a man who has _...Read More_

"Tech companies like Amazon and Uber are creating a society divided between the served and their servants, where the “friction” of in-person interaction is eliminated. That friction is the stuff of social connection — a world without it is _...Read More_

"AT SOME POINT in the last 50 years of daily Washington Capital Beltway traffic updates, reporters stopped saying the “Mormon Temple” and just called it the “Temple.” As there is no other temple of glowing white marble and stained glass, _...Read More_

"Despite the fact that the modernist creed was often framed in quasi-theological terms, contemporary artists have tended to be squeamish about religion. Professions of religious belief have seemed somehow antithetical to the _...Read More_

"On the occasion of the December 2022 print edition of A.i.A., the Religion Issue, we revisit this article from February 1997 that also explores how religion can play a significant role in shaping artists’ world views and artwork. In this _...Read More_

"Handprints on a cave wall, crumbs from a meal: the new science of Neanderthals radically recasts the meaning of humanity"

[https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/amy-sherald-vj-day-kiss-alfred-eisenstaedt-snap/index.html](https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/amy-sherald-vj-day-kiss-alfred-eisenstaedt-snap/index.html) >"The celebrated artist, known for her powerful portraits of everyday Black life, presents a monumental painting inspired by one of the 21st _...Read More_

The New York Times: American Culture Is Trash Culture.

"The committee leaders were asked to visit all of the energy projects West Virginia had to offer: wind, hydroelectric, shale gas, solar, and a strip-mining operation in the ancient southern coalfields."

“Prison litigation as a conduit for resistance.”

In this summer edition of Jordan Richman's TRANSMISSIONS, our columnist finds himself far from the party scene, on a "cure" at a luxury medical spa in Austria. Detoxing from a hectic season in the culture industry, during various cleansing _...Read More_