Who Gets to Say What Something Is?
We outsourced aesthetic judgment to suspicion, and the artist pays the fine.
The Courage Gap
The loudest protest reaches the already convinced. The quiet one gets inside the frame.
The Stupidest Way Is Sometimes the Best Way
Four people picked the hardest path on purpose, and found something worth keeping there.
Artists on the Architecture of After 9/11
The emergency ended twenty-five years ago. The cameras never got the memo.
Built to Last, Designed to Vanish
Your work will outlive the hard drive it lives on, if you're lucky.
Prove You're Human (And Dumb It Down to Do It)
The detectors were supposed to catch the bots, not the people who never used one.
Already Somewhere Else
While Christie's guesses what art tech billionaires will buy, some artists are using their technologies against them
The Satellite Is the Camera
Every generation of artists quietly steals the tools that were never built for art.
Happy 250th: Five Dispatches From Everywhere Else
Naturalized in Brooklyn, looking everywhere but here for once
Credibility Is the New Craft
What if the hardest thing to generate turns out to be belief?