Art and Culture - Quillette (Page 2)

Faking Hope: AI Art as Propaganda

There is a new contender for the most effective weapon in the propaganda wars: photorealistic, generative AI art.

Julia Friedman

3 Nov 2023 · 8 min read

A Roman Trauma

In the fourth instalment of ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ podcaster Herbert Bushman describes the Visigothic sack of Rome in 410 C.E.

Herbert Bushman

1 Nov 2023 · 16 min read

An Eye for the Jugular

A new documentary looks back on the life and work of satirist, novelist, and New Journalist, Tom Wolfe.

Thomas Doherty

27 Oct 2023 · 11 min read

Betraying Their Maverick Roots, Fringe Festivals Have Become Ideological Gatekeepers

A former artistic director of the Nanaimo Fringe Festival describes how transgender activists engineered her ouster.

Bryony Dixon

24 Oct 2023 · 9 min read

British and Black

Contemporary antiracism imposes an American framework that distorts our understanding of racial issues in different countries.

Ralph Leonard

20 Oct 2023 · 12 min read

Champlain Goes to War

In the thirteenth instalment of our series on the history of Canada, Greg Koabel describes the crucial battlefield alliance that French explorers forged with Indigenous allies in 1609.

Greg Koabel

19 Oct 2023 · 26 min read

The Extraordinary Life of Tom Nash

“The deep end is the best place to learn to swim.”

Iona Italia

17 Oct 2023 · 18 min read

Hollywood Autocrat

A newly restored Blu-ray release of ‘Foolish Wives’ offers a welcome reintroduction to one of cinema’s most gifted and eccentric artists.

Jaspreet Singh Boparai

13 Oct 2023 · 12 min read

The Male Obsession with Ancient Rome

We are all Rome’s children. Its legacy is everywhere we look.

Stewart Slater

12 Oct 2023 · 9 min read

Columbus Day: A Fraught Celebration

The world is better than it would have been had we remained isolated from each other—even for Native Americans.

Christopher J. Ferguson

9 Oct 2023 · 7 min read

Man Out of Time

A look back at the career of Avery Corman, who found popular success with ‘Kramer versus Kramer’ before running afoul of feminism.

Kevin Mims

6 Oct 2023 · 18 min read

Sculpture and Story

Narrative art has been deeply unfashionable for about a century. But aren’t art and stories inextricable?

Aidan Harte

2 Oct 2023 · 19 min read

King of the Goths

In the third instalment of ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ podcaster Herbert Bushman describes the rise of Alaric I, whose Gothic armies roamed Greece and the Balkans before marching on Rome itself.

Herbert Bushman

2 Oct 2023 · 19 min read

A Country in the Making

Sean Penn’s surprising new documentary explores “extreme history” in war-torn Ukraine.

Brian Stewart

29 Sep 2023 · 6 min read

The Communication Revolution

Like the first iPhone, Gutenberg’s Bible opened up avenues of development that entrepreneurs have been exploiting ever since.

James Hannam

27 Sep 2023 · 10 min read