Art
The Art of AI: Computer-generated Sculptures Are Eerily Real
Artist Matteo Rattini trained a neural network to create images of contemporary sculptures based on Instagram's algorithm suggestions.
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Art
Lynn Hershman Leeson, in All Her Cyborg Glory, Gets a Retrospective
A foremother to young new media artists working today, Hershman Leeson has blazed a trail for more than five decades.
Art
Move Over, New York; Chicago Comics Affirms a Vibrant Local Legacy
Immersive and vast, the exhibition showcases the breadth and depth of the city’s rich comics history.
Film
A Mystical Masseuse Sends a Gated Community Into Upheaval
Director Malgorzata Szumowska uses fantasy to satirize the lives of the affluent in Poland’s official Oscar submission.
Opinion
Milan Museum Commemorates Fascist Past at the Expense of the Present
If it seeks to help us “avoid the errors of the past,” more will be needed from Milan's House of Memory museum.
Art
How India’s Creative Community Became a Beacon of Hope During COVID-19
Every cake, every artwork, and every photograph made a difference towards the greater good to benefit vulnerable populations.
News
"It Means Nothing To Me": Picasso Unimpressed by Moon Landing
The artist's underwhelmed response to the historic 1969 event is the "meh" energy we all need right now as billionaires race to space.
Books
Made on a Boat, a Photographer’s Dreamy Views of the Sea
For 12 days, the photographer Paul Rousteau was an active crew member of a boat.
Art
Deana Lawson’s Sublime Visions of Black Communion
Portals to the otherworldly, Lawson’s grand-scale photographs reveal the divine in the secular.
Opinion
We Need to Reform the September 11 Museum
Approaching the 20th anniversary of the attacks, the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center faces a reckoning.
Books
A Guide to Reading “Promiscuously”
Crackling with against-the-grain analysis, Heather Cass White’s latest book argues for an approach rooted in pleasure rather than the performance of knowledge.
Art
Required Reading
This week, how queer sex lives have been reconfigured by the pandemic, dommes are convincing their subs to get vaccinated, carbon offsets are catching fire, and more.