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.
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A collection of 19 issues
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
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