Do Artists Have A Vision For The Future?
Around the beginning of the 20th Century, several French artists were asked to design a series of cards that would imagine what life would be like 100 years in the future in the year 2000. … read more
AJBlog: diacritical/Douglas McLennan Published 2016-07-10
Today in mathiness
Suppose I suggested that we can think about how the plot of a work of fiction is progressing according to whether the emotional valence is rising or falling. … read more
AJBlog: For What It’s Worth Published 2016-07-11
I’m Back — With A Masterpiece
Caspicara. Never heard of him? He was an indigenous artist of whom Spanish King Charles II once said, “I am not concerned that Italy has Michelangelo; in my colonies of America I have the master Caspicara.” … read more
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2016-07-11
A visit to the memory hole
In December of 1969, Esquire invited twenty-five venerable celebrities to offer end-of-the-decade advice, most of it predictably platitudinous, to the magazine’s younger readers. … read more
AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2016-07-11
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