Regimes of Visibility: Gerhard Richter at the De Young Museum
When some years ago the De Young Museum in San Francisco was preparing to reopen in a new building, the Continue reading
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Digital Reincarnation: LuYang NetiNeti
In September 2022, London’s Zabludowicz Collection opened its doors to the “disorientating and darkly humorous worlds” created by the highly Continue reading
Not All Art is Beautiful (and That’s Good)
Hans Holbein’s portrait The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb (from 1521, now in the Basel Kunstmuseum) is, Continue reading
Angelus Novus’ Eyesight: On Benjamin’s Aesthetic Mysticism
Paul Klee’s Angelus Novus design is used by Benjamin as a metaphor to describe the link between progress and catastrophe.
Art, Temporality and “Motions of the Mind”
Grossman and the Greeks “’Everything flows, everything changes,’ said the Greek. But this is not evident from the little mounds Continue reading
Art, Technology and Truth in Martin Heidegger’s Thought
In mythology, autochthones (from Ancient Greek αὐτός “self,” and χθών “soil”; i.e. “people sprung from earth itself”) are those mortals Continue reading
The Hypocrisy of American Art Institutions: An Elegant Protest
The recent controversy surrounding this year’s Whitney Biennial and its leading to the removal of tear gas profiteer Warren Kanders Continue reading
The Quixote Sub Specie Aeternitatis: The Philosophical Significance of the Spanish Golden Age
Todo es mentira, ya verás La poesía es la única verdad Sacar belleza de este caos es virtud – Continue reading
Blue Labyrinths 