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From the Editor March/April; Volume 18, issue 4

From the Editor
March/April; Volume 18, issue 4

by | Mar 5, 2024

Dear Reader, I admit to being a Luddite when it comes to preferring a paintbrush to the computer. So, when artists gained access to AI-generating tools, I wasn’t that impressed, nor alarmed. There seemed to be a lot of hoopla and fearmongering about the prospect of...

ART FOR DUMMIES Sophie Becker and the Ventriloquy Redux

ART FOR DUMMIES
Sophie Becker and the Ventriloquy Redux

by | Mar 5, 2024

Often seen as an eccentric art form, ventriloquism has resurfaced and gained popularity again in mainstream culture over the past few years, from televised talent competitions (three ventriloquists have won America’s Got Talent: Terry Fator, Paul Zerdin and Darci...

STAYING INSIDE THE LINES Painting AI's Possible Future

STAYING INSIDE THE LINES
Painting AI's Possible Future

by | Mar 5, 2024

Many consider the AARON project the earliest use of AI in artwork. If AI is the most recent and advanced example of humans using automated processes to make art, then its history goes back much further. So why all the fuss now? Is AI so different than John Cage...

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TRADING PLACES 

Zackary Drucker and Rhys Ernst at the Whitney Biennial

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When I drove up to Zackary Drucker’s home off San Fernando Road, the front door was wide open—a startling sight since most of the surrounding… Read More 

Psychedelic Shack 

Seeing Yourself Seeing With James Turrell

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If one thinks of the essence of Modernism as being about direct experience rather than recreated experience, the artist who has really continued to expand… Read More 

Guest Lecture: F. Scott Hess 

Funnyman’s Wake, 2013

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The subject matter of several of my recent paintings derives from screwed-up iPhone panorama photographs. For centuries art linear perspective has ordered the space of… Read More