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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...

:ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS

Shana Lutker, Onward and Upward, 10 billboards, Jackonville, FL, 2013. A LAND Exhibition: The Manifest Destiny Billboard Project.

Curators Unbound

The Rise of the Independent Nonprofits

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There are many versions of “space” in the art world, from the high gloss of a pristine museum exhibition to the cozy confines of a… Read More

Tyler Vlahovich, Elmo Event, 2015, Sharpie on mylar balloon, from Los Angeles Museum of Art’s project space.

Laurel Doody & LAMOA

An Apartment that's not an Apartment and a Museum that's not a Museum

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Alongside Los Angeles’ mainstream exhibition spaces, an eddy of alternative art venues swirl for a time, submerge and disappear, enjoying varying degrees of notice. A… Read More

Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno with Survivaballs (courtesy Nate Igor Smith)

UNDER THE RADAR

The Yes Men’s Camouflaged Artful Politics

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So, somehow I wound up teaching a couple of Modern Art History classes, right? I’m not exactly thrilled with the default textbooks, so I’m keeping… Read More