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The strange, undulating sound of mathematics.
Barthes is dead — long live the artist.
With no reliable way to discern the author of an artwork, we may eventually abandon the question of whether something was made by humans or not.
“I believe that in the future, there will be a Francis Bacon of AI art,” Saltz tells Big Think. “We just haven't seen that artist yet.”
Big Think spoke with animator and animation historian Tom Sito about the cyclical evolution of animation.
Big Think columnist Adam Frank makes the case for why the 2023 video game Alan Wake 2 is a boundary-pushing piece of art.
With great power comes retcon responsibility.
Using peach and eggplant emojis as shorthand for sex may seem like a new thing, but Renaissance artists were experts at using produce to imply intercourse.
An X-ray offers a glimpse into the painter’s early years.
"Groupthink" gets a bad rap. In reality, we need groups to focus our thinking and to build on the ideas of others.
John Templeton Foundation
“Like real dreams, it does not explain, does not complete its sequences," film critic Roger Ebert once wrote about "Mulholland Drive."
In the West, discussions of 20th-century painting are dominated by Warhol and Picasso, but trendsetting artists are found everywhere.
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To answer that question, we may have to figure out when the famed painter started to go bald.
Unlock the full potential of your creativity with holistic detachment. This is the way of the editor.
"Tristram Shandy" trolled its way to fame.
The value of art does not lie in the artwork itself but is instead determined by curators, collectors, critics, and other participants in the modern-day art market.
Million Stories
When the great American tradition of the road trip meets the great Jewish tradition of the deli, we get the Great American Deli Schlep.
Modernism has lasted longer than any art movement since the Renaissance.
The artifacts were often made from found objects – an Ivory dish-soap bottle transformed into an earthenware figure.
Rare and costly paints have shaped art history in unforeseen ways. Mummy brown caused one artist to bury his paint.
Is "The Garden of Earthly Delights" by Hieronymus Bosch a condemnation of sin or a celebration of hedonism? Art historians still aren’t sure.
Many contemporary composers live in the shadow of Bach and Beethoven, even though they’re just as interesting to listen to.
The so-called "court painter of Silicon Valley" was shaped by her youth in communist Poland but looks forward to a future ruled by celebrity robots.