Blogs about Art

Five academics review "Cowboy Carter" from different angles: genre, place and community, politics and the market, and the boldness of Beyoncé herself. Continue reading → The post Five Scholars Discuss Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” appeared first …

My current generative artwork-in-progress includes text, but I don’t want to use a font. In browser based art work, using a “web safe” font could produce inconsistent results, while including a font file would mean …

Yoram Gross (1926–2015) was born in Krakow Poland, to a Jewish family. He lived during WW2 under the Nazis, with his family on Oskar Sch­in­d­ler’s list of humans rescued from slaughter in 1944, but the …

I’ve recently started to feel like my Acid Renaissance series is finally coming to a conclusion. There are perhaps three or four more pieces left to do, after which it will be finished. This series …

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/04/18/patrizia-sandrettos-venice-venue-nears-completion The island of San Giacomo di Paludo in the Venice lagoon is a short boat trip away from San Marco, but had been abandoned since the 1960s. In 2018 it was bought by the …

Following my experiments with the ChatGPT-assisted AI Chair 1.0, I’ve been continuing experiments with a range of other LLMs. The below image is Chair 1.1, designed with the assistance of Mistral AI. Before embarking on …

Posted @withregram • @gary_hustwit What an incredible night at the UK Premiere of our live generative documentary “Eno” Saturday at the Barbican Hall in London. It’s hard to describe the energy in that room, I’m …

As many of you know, my big project during the winter and spring a year ago was a group of twenty charcoal landscape drawings. They eventually formed the core of my book Snowy Fields, along …

Sharing my favorite images from my archives. Click to continue reading From the archives: B&W 156-160.

“Sonic Meditation for Solo Performer No. 2,” salvaged brass, electronics, astroturf, EEG brain monitor, video projection. All images © Steve Parker, shared with permission Many therapists advise patients to reconnect with their inner voice, a …

March 21 – April 27, 2024

Artists are complaining that Instagram is becoming a worse place to promote their art. They wonder if they are just doing it wrong. And Meta execs simply claim our posts aren’t interesting enough. But the …

This blog post will delve into the details of each tool you need for plein air painting.

202311″ x 7″ x 10″Bronze This self portrait was generated by using a 3D scanner to scan my face, illustrating how the technology imperfectly sees me. The result is full of artifacts. Pieces of skin …

On 15 March, 2024, an exhibition on the Austrian architect Hermann Czech’s work opened in Vienna at the exhibition space Franz-Josefs-Kai 3 (FJK3). It is the first exhibition spanning his whole career up until to …

Justin McCarthy 1891 - 1977 McCarthy’s works in a serial format were created not long after his release from Rittersville State Home for the Insane 1920’s and into the 1930s.The commercial use of the speech …

After watching Providence again I yielded to further temptation and ordered a copy of the book that first introduced me to the film itself and to the Resnais oeuvre as a whole. I’d been itching …

A screenshot of Columbia linguist John McWhorter’s latest NYT newsletter was posted to social media by Bo Austin: Last Thursday [18 Apr 2024], in the music humanities class I teach at Columbia University, two students …

J.C. Leyendecker, during his student days in Paris, wrote home to Chicago describing the work he was doing in the Académie Julian under Benjamin-Constant, Lefebvre, Bouguereau, and Laurens:"Thoroughness is the principle upon which the French …