Art
As AI technology grows more sophisticated, neural networks can generate pictures people are comfortable looking at. It takes a surreal reject of an image to remind us of how differently a computer perceives the world.
Books
Barbara Bourland's gripping new novel Fake Like Me unfolds at the pace of a thriller but is steeped in contemporary art theory.
News
Also, the death of artist Devra Freelander has sparked conversation across New York City to better protect bike lanes, Anish Kapoor's "The Bean" in Chicago was vandalized, and more.
News
During a recent visit to US border facilities, the president of the American Academy of Pediatrics was given three drawings by child immigrants.
Art
Best known for his painting "The Sugar Shack," Barnes focused on what he knew, capturing the seminal moments of his life growing up in North Carolina and as a football player.
News
Plus, last week's case of who bought the maybe-Caravaggio painting has apparently been solved, and the Fyre Festival island is up for sale.
Film
Filmmaker Denis Do used interviews with his mother to craft the animated film Funan, an affecting portrait of a family swept up in the brutal Khmer Rouge regime.
Books
Paul Dobraszczyk's Future Cities surveys the multitudinous ways creatives have imagined how humans might build their living spaces in the future.
Art
As protests over an extradition bill rage in Hong Kong, Tse's Stakeholders exhibition at the Venice Biennale negotiates the spaces between gender categories like female or male, or race categories like Asian or White.
Art
Anurag Kashyap has never resisted the opportunity to take classical elements and tropes of Bollywood storytelling and invert, twist, and mold them into something new.
In Brief
If legislators don't override the governor's plan, Alaskans will lose their state art council and become the only US state or territory without a state arts agency.
News
The decision to lay off Bob Linder outraged many members of the Bay Area arts community, sparking a petition encouraging 500 Capp Street to rehire the curator and leading two artists to withdraw work from exhibitions.