What is the purpose of art? Art is not useful like a chair is useful. It does not always support the body. It supports something more unstable: the mind, the myth, the wound, the regime, the market, the memory of a civilization.
Matthieu Blazy: When Ready to Wear Becomes Art I had the privilege of attending an exclusive preview of Chanel’s Spring Summer 2026 ready to wear collection in the private salons at 19 rue Cambon. The visit was conceived as a guided immersion. The salons had been transformed into exhibition spaces. The garments were presented not as merchandise,
Invisual Art What is Invisual Art? — Only if I had a nickel for every time people asked me this question… Invisual artists would say : An art without work of art, without author, without spectator. So what is left? How far can be extended or reduced the concept of art? Does art depend
I read this paper, so you don’t have to — Alan Turing, Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950) The name of Alan Turing has become ubiquitous. Invoked as the founding father of AI, cited relentlessly as the one who saw it all coming, known for the ultimate test that can prove either a machine is thinking or just “faking it”, Alan Turing became The Name in the tech
Bianca's Bosker "Get the picture" - The dangerous realms of the art world This book feels like a war declaration. From the first chapter, I carried a sense of restlessness—not only about the world Bosker was uncovering, but also about her own future. I wondered: how reachable would this book be once it came out? How many people in the art world
When Reality Is a Shared Hallucination: Seeing, Believing, and the Art in Between Is reality real? And how does this ambiguity affect our perception of art? “Reality,” neuroscientist Anil Seth suggests, “is a controlled hallucination — and when we agree about our hallucinations, that’s what we call reality.” — TED Talk, Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality, 2017 Each person lives within a private
I read this book so you don't have to Each month, I read a book or a scientific paper (or sometimes both) and extract what matters — so you don’t have to. But you might want to. Because these are not the titles you’ll find trending in newsletters or promoted by institutions.
Memento Mori: When Death Becomes Art When does death cross the line of the morbid to become beauty, art, symbolism? And perhaps even deeper: is death the most sincere and genuine part of human nature — a sorrow of perishability that, through time, has undergone a cathartic metamorphosis into sublimation?
The Hidden Art of Europe’s Only Indigenous People From ancient Arctic patterns to contemporary graffiti—inside the world of Sámi art you’ve likely never seen. How is it possible that Europe’s only Indigenous people remain so invisible? In January 2025, I traveled through Lapland in Finland—starting in Rovaniemi, moving north to Saariselkä, then on to
The Mathematical Mind: How Art Emerges from Patterns and Processes From Greek proportions to GANs, art emerges when minds—and machines—refine patterns through iterative feedback, showing how disciplined mathematics blossoms into creative expression.