Blogging Fellows
How To Objectively Identify Beauty
A philosopher explains the importance of form and freedom in aesthetics, juggling included.
Alexander B. Joy
April 13, 2021
Blogging Fellows
Can Sports Be an Aesthetic Experience?
Contingency and unpredictability can elevate a football game into a kind of theater.
Alexander B. Joy
February 4, 2021
Blogging Fellows
Winnowing The Wynn
A critic surveys the Wynn Las Vegas art holdings and asks, “What can compete with a hanging parasol garden, life-size crystal peacocks, anemone-lantern trees, dramatic drapery edged with passementerie, and swirling golden mosaics, as well as carpets, ceiling moldings, and chandeliers fit for royalty?”
Dawn-Michelle Baude
December 4, 2020
Commentary
How a 19th-Century Idea Could Rescue 21st-Century Art
The American Art-Union offers a model for supporting artists with direct engagement from the American public. For an art world struggling in the pandemic economy, it could offer a solution.
Michael Ward
October 20, 2020
Far Out
Have Skateboard. Dive Deep.
Poet Anders Carlson-Wee on the skateboarding aesthetic, the benefits of dumpster diving, and the dangers of ideological conformity.
Denton Loving
August 10, 2020
Dance
How to Tell a Dance on Film
Elliot Caplan and Mirra Bank watch dance with eyes and minds open to creative possibilities. They each create films that deepen understanding of the notoriously ephemeral art form.
Carolyn Jack
July 8, 2020
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