How To Objectively Identify Beauty
A philosopher explains the importance of form and freedom in aesthetics, juggling included.
Can Sports Be an Aesthetic Experience?
Contingency and unpredictability can elevate a football game into a kind of theater.
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?”
Have Skateboard. Dive Deep.
Poet Anders Carlson-Wee on the skateboarding aesthetic, the benefits of dumpster diving, and the dangers of ideological conformity.
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.
Drop Out. Tune In. Start a Revolution.
Mario Torero on leaving art school, his place in the Chicano art movement, and fifty years of bringing color to the streets.
Begin at the End
Ken Thomson exemplifies a new generation of composers tasked with picking up the pieces of music history.
Tuning In
Conrad Winslow on the interdisciplinary inspiration behind his work, feeling the music, and the 21st-century taste for disjunction.
All About the Eyeballs
Billi Kid uses stickers to collaborate with a community of artists online and IRL.
How a 19th-Century Idea Could Rescue 21st-Century Art
October 20, 2020• Commentary, Reported, Visual Art