Blogs about Arts and media

By James Rushing Daniel. Dominique Routhier, With and Against: The Situationist International and the Age of Automation (Verso, 2023) In the contemporary art world dominated by glitzy international fairs and heavily licensed celebrity artists, it’s …

From Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog comes another look at the ongoing disasters here in Joe Biden’s corporate fascist kleptocracy. BIDEN OKAYED IRAN’S ASSAULT ON ISRAEL “WITHIN CERTAIN LIMITS.” Remember when Biden said that it …

When my Radiohead book was published, there were a few rumbles that bringing the likes of Baudrillard into the conversation were a bit – perish the thought – pretentious. I’ve never been particularly stung by …

Spanning the entire second floor of the foundation, the exhibition features videos, photo-collages, and interactive and mixed-media installations that delve into the artist’s groundbreaking practice. The post Lynn Hershman Leeson: Are Our Eyes Targets? appeared …

Fans participate in a “baby race” during a Sacramento Kings home game Author’s Note: I submitted the following column discussing the “beautiful weirdness” of the NBA’s League Pass subscription service on March 12. Just a …

Happy 2024, everyone! I don’t know if there’s some symbolism behind this year’s J.C. Leyendecker New Year’s baby that I’m missing, or if it’s just a baby knight riding a mechanical horse and using a …

LP – Aposiopèse Andrea Borghi manipulates VHS tapes and recorders without showing any nostalgia for the films that may have been played on these technologies. Instead, his focus is on the mechanical sounds that these …

Sorry for not posting anything yesterday and (possibly) only this today. It has nothing to do with the Donald Trump trial…which I am not trying to follow and certainly not in real time. Just busy. …

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H. L. Mencken? Alistair Cooke? Apocryphal? Picture of wood type used in letterpress printing from Unsplash Question for Quote Investigator: A prominent journalist once celebrated the display of competence in any discipline from A to …

One thing to know about the Vision Pro headset is that it’s very expensive. If you weren’t aware of that, I’m not sure exactly how, since people will remind you of it every possible chance …

Michael Grasso / February 21, 2024 Near the end of Richard Nixon’s first term, the forces of conservatism and reaction were in the ascendancy in America. This public resurgence of “traditional values” was itself a …