What is not Art ?

Marine Billet: Casting the Body Against Disappearance

With Incarnem, Marine Billet transforms bodies, flowers, architectural fragments and intimate memories into jewellery. An ear can become a sculpture, a nipple a record of a body before surgery, a champagne wire an engagement ring, a tooth an unsettling meditation on identity. Her practice exists somewhere between jewellery, sculpture, imprint

Can Emerging Cinema Still Change the Way We See? Chanel, Nouvelles Vagues, and the New Voices of Biarritz

For its fourth edition, the festival already had the confidence of something much more established. It brought together renowned actors, filmmakers, cultural figures, and a selection of films of remarkable quality. But what struck me most was not only the prestige of the names present. It was the energy of

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?