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 →

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 →

Hume’s Aesthetics: On the Standard of Taste

There is undoubtedly a variety of opinion in matters of art appreciation – someone may, for example, detest Damien Hirst’s Continue reading →

Jan Svankmajer: Surrealism in the Contemporary World

Following the much documented downfall of Surrealism as a movement we find numerous contemporary artists working in its idiom but Continue reading →

Man, the Animal Without Essence, 2: Fire and the Cave

Why do humans produce art? What is it that has led us as a species to feel the need to Continue reading →