"The interweb has been abuzz of late with talk of The New Aesthetic. A never-ending stream of polemical blog posts and autobot-regurgitated twitter commentaries (hashtag [#newaesthetic](/culture/new/newaesthetic) ) bombards us from every angle. What is this new thing? _...Read More_

"This is the year that the AI generator DALL-E took the world by storm with its ability to conjure fantastical visions in seconds with nothing but a written prompt. It seems fitting, therefore, that the application is closing out the year _...Read More_

“The Venice Biennale was just one element in a new emerging chapter of women’s esotericism in art, _...Read More_

"There is no scene, for example, where someone’s insurance claims are being denied, nor are there tableaux about the hysterical billing practices of for-profit medical systems, which make an actuarial science of keeping physician _...Read More_

"What I’m really trying to say is that many people on the internet, Twitter and FB in particular, present themselves as knowledgeable and convincing and powerful and charismatic, grinding sometimes atrocious political axes, but if anyone _...Read More_

“A new collection of the American artist’s work showcases a playful talent as happy riffing on Greek mythology as she is surrealism.”

>"The last interaction I had with Salman Rushdie was the night before his horrific stabbing. He had posted a serene photo of the full moon on Lake Chautauqua and I had admired it. Less than 12 hours later, as the awful news spread, it _...Read More_

SURREALISM & POLITICS _...Read More_

"This comparative ambivalence extended to the show’s contextualization of the movement. Whereas “Cubism and Abstract Art” advanced a causal history of modernism, tracing a direct genealogy from the broken brushwork of Impressionism to the _...Read More_

>"ONE OF THE GREAT GAMES of architectural history, both fun and revealing, is to place ourselves in the dusty shoes of archaeologists 1000 years from now. Digging through the millennial rubble of Los Angeles, what if we were to unearth _...Read More_

"A deliriously entertaining survey at the Metropolitan Museum shows how the craze for Surrealism surged like a prairie fire around the world."

>"See five lesser-known Surrealists getting recognition in the Met's exhibition 'Surrealism Beyond Borders.'"

>"The story of the most scandal work by Edgar Degas, his sculpture "La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans.""

Philosophy takes itself way too seriously

>"25 May 2021, 7pm BST/2pm EST/11am PST On the tenth anniversary of Leonora Carrington’s (1917–2011) passing _...Read More_