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The Shell Shock of the Arts November 26, 2024
One of the poignant moments in Mick Jackson’s powerful 1984 nuclear holocaust drama Threads is a scene in which the staff of a museum remove paintings from the galleries for safe storage in advance of the nuclear bomb blast. The camera pauses briefly...
The Creative World Takes On A.I. November 14, 2024
Inside a curved glass building next to the Golden State Warriors’ arena in San Francisco, eight cans of Spam with tiny arms whirred to life, tapping out artificial-intelligence-generated word slop on miniature keyboards. They were part of the Misalig...
The Art World’s Enfant Terrible Runs for Senate March 05, 2024
PASADENA, CA — Stefan Simchowitz, 53, is no one’s idea of a viable candidate, including his own. “I have no illusion that I can win or that I stand a chance to win, which is also quite liberating, because I’m not running to win a campaign. I have no ...
The Most Talked About Painter In The Art World January 26, 2024
One day in early November, the painter Anna Weyant took a friend with her to shop for a coat to wear to LACMA’s annual Art + Film Gala. Even by the contemporary art world’s extravagant standards, this gala creates a uniquely powerful blizzard of mone...
