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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.

What if Hitler Had Been Accepted to Art School?

A Visual Journey Through the Boundaries of What Is Not Art When does an image cease to be art? Is it a matter of lacking innovation, vision, or is it the nature of the creator that disqualifies it? It is widely known that before Adolf Hitler ( became the dictator history

Between Fiction and Innovation: Art as a Laboratory of the Real

What if art stopped being a space of representation and became a tool for manipulating life itself? Today, some artists no longer limit themselves to painting, sculpting, or filming: they program genes, cultivate cells, modify DNA, 3D-print organs, or envision futures where humans share their wombs with pigs. This is

MOBA Boston: Is bad art still art?

I recently visited the Museum of Bad Art in Boston—a place that feels like the artistic equivalent of a karaoke bar: bold, unapologetic, and gloriously off-key. In spirit, it echoes the Salon des Refusés, the legendary 1863 exhibition authorized by Napoleon III after public outcry to see the works

What Is Art? The WYSIWYG Effect in Contemporary Art

A lot of contemporary art today operates on a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) basis. The artwork, no matter how abstract, uncanny, or seemingly nonsensical, is often presented without explanation from the artist. The viewer is left with an image, an object, or an installation that resists

Kristy Flower : sculpting with energy

Kristy Flower is an Italian artist based in London, known for her artistic focus on motifs such as the vagina and the vulva, inspired by women and mother earth and her independent brand that specializes in vintage reworking, painting and restoration. Our first encounter was through her sculptures. While strolling

Rhythm 0 – Between Subject and Object

How does "Rhythm 0", by exploring the chosen and ambivalent vulnerability of a woman’s artist, reveal profound societal phenomena?

"Art for Art" or "Art for art market"?

It is the first time in the history of art when the art market is more important than the art itself. If the 19th century was all about “Art for art”, the 20th about “Art as a weapon against totalitarian politics”, the 21st century is all about “Art for art market”.

Art & Politics: The fall of the Divine Empire

Medieval pictorial art is almost exclusively religious. The sacredness of the painting is represented, through the golden background, as symbol of impermissibility, and the absence of facial expression, as being timeless and aspatial.

Feminist art: Is the vagina the new penis?

Before the year 2000 no one really dared to put vaginas or vulvas in public exhibitions. These empowered women artists make us believe that the days of the penis are over: So, can the vagina be the new penis?

Mona Lisa & the Art Market

In the world of the art market the value of a work of art, as well as the rating of an artist, are exclusively determined by the buyer. The expert only gives an estimation of the value of the item for sale, which most of the time is very low