In his 2023 book The Art Thief, author Michael Finkel crucially observed (my book review here) that “art is the result of facing almost no survival pressure of all.” So true, and it raises an exciting question about the present and future of art: as an increasingly globalized division of labor comprised of man, machines, and machines that think make life’s necessities and luxuries more and more of a sure thing, isn’t the brilliance of art set to explode in a myriad of amazing ways?
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