The Problem with Public Art
Great cultures of the past were built around grand unifying ideas.
David Lucas
· 8 min read
Art
A collection of 69 posts
Haruki Murakami — Poet of Loneliness
It is in such trancelike states that Murakami’s characters are drawn into the lands of the surreal and the absurd.
Ben Sixsmith
· 5 min read
E Pluribus Unum — From Many, One
The centripetal tendency, if unchecked, ends in a black hole, in narrow paranoia, in the life-denying singularity of fundamentalism or fascism.
David Lucas
· 10 min read
Postmodern Art Is Vacant
Yet, modern art is still portrayed as being avant-garde, defying trends, and sticking it to the establishment.
Jason Newman
· 10 min read
Confessions of a Hello Kitty Killer — The Pernicious Effects of Cuteness
Ranked by concentrated cutesiness, the ‘original’ smiley faces that launched a fad and first bothered me as a kid didn’t pack the punch of what they would devolve into.
Michael Brandow
· 18 min read
It's Not Important to Defund Identity Culture
If taxpayers from both the Right and the Left refuse to fund identity culture, what exactly will remain of the arts?
Reilly Smethurst
· 7 min read
How French Intellectuals Lost Their Faith
Ben Sixsmith
· 6 min read
Are Internet Memes a New Form of Literature?
When historians study ancient societies they use pottery, cave art, paintings and engravings as their sources. Memes can play the same role as one of the sources of history.
Aneeq Ejaz
· 5 min read
Science as Art
All of this discussion leaves unanswered the question of how we decide if something represents a breakthrough — after all, there isn’t an international court of arbitration for creativity.
Adam Perkins
· 9 min read