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A Golden LA Production Written and Directed by : Jimmy Marble Zizi: Suzanna Son Executive Producer: Matthew Marquis Head of Production: Arwa Ibrahim Producer:…

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An artwork may be generative in some ways and not in others. A piece could have generative aspects even if the artist didn’t have that intention. There are ways in which a painting could be considered…

Art work by Banksy (title unknown). Source: Flickr For centuries, we have been telling ourselves a simple story about the origins of social inequality. For most of their history, humans lived in tiny…

A professor once assigned me to select and watch over a small plot of land in the city. I was to take weekly notes on its changes, so as to understand the site’s history and record the details of i…

In conversation with Worry Club’s Chase Walsh, we explore psychology of performing your real self.

New research reveals that the intense physical reactions people experience when listening to music or looking at visual art, such as a sudden shiver or goosebumps, are partly linked to natural…

This section from Archimedes Palimpsest has a mixture of ancient geometry and Byzantine prayers.

Language is a container for thought and feeling that shapes the contents. The great danger is that we come to mistake the shape for the substance, reducing concepts and experiences we cannot name o…

The "Creativity Pioneers" proving that imaginationis a practical tool for social transformation.

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Data Dreams: Art and AI is at the Museum of Contemporary Art brings together artists who make visible the tensions of ever-present AI.

Have you done anything creative today? Research shows that creativity boasts many mental health benefits. A new book explores this important relationship.

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The idea for the Art of Manliness came to me 17 years ago as I was standing in the magazine section of a Borders bookstore. As inspiration struck, I took my Moleskine out of my pocket and jotted down…

«But for some reason, around the year 1600, in England, they do invent the diary, the daily diary as we know it.»

Sign up for the Smarter Faster newsletter A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people You’re in Paris on the evening of December 28, 1895. It’s cold and windy, and this…

For anyone who pays attention to major literary awards, it will come as no surprise that university presses figure prominently among celebrated and vigorous publishers of contemporary poetry. In th…

Art critic and publisher Isabelle Graw reflects on the tension between art as a commodity and its enduring physical and symbolic value within capitalist systems.

Iona Italia talks to artist Megan Gafford about how we have come to value statement-making over beauty and craftsmanship in art and architecture.