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On the Arts

On the Arts
Generative AI and the Falling Costs of Art Creation For individual creators on a budget, the future is bright.
a year ago
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On the Arts: A Year-End Review A brief guide to everything published this year.
a year ago
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The Meaning of Melancholy An Interview with Hans Maes
a year ago
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How to Write a Proper Haiku A Starter's Guide to the Deceptively Simple Poetic Form
a year ago
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Winter as Reading Season David Foster Wallace on the necessity of quiet time in order to read.
a year ago
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Link List: 20 Articles + Websites About the Arts A wide-ranging collection of links on ballet, ugly architecture, Soviet Control rooms, Hokusai, and...
a year ago
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What is the Demoscene? An Interview with Filipe Cruz on the Influential but Obscure Art Form
a year ago
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How to Start Learning About Aesthetics Three ways to improve your knowledge about aesthetics, art theory, and the philosophy of art.
a year ago
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The Paradox of the Garden of Eden An Interview with Professor David Fenner
a year ago
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Do biographies need to start at the beginning? Alternatives to the predictably linear narratives of most biographies.
a year ago
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On the Arts: A Three Month Review And a Thank You to Subscribers
a year ago
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The Vertical Beauty of Hong Kong An Interview with Photographer Romain Jacquet Lagrèze
a year ago
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Are wind turbines ugly? Could they be beautiful? How to make ugly things appear less ugly – or appear like something else entirely.
a year ago
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How do you actually create AI art? A Walkthrough of Using Midjourney, a Popular AI Art Creation App
a year ago
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What does Wabi-Sabi really mean? Explaining an often misunderstood idea in Japanese aesthetics.
a year ago
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What are Liminal Spaces? And why are they so popular? “Liminal spaces” have become trendy in recent years, especially on TikTok, Tumblr, and YouTube. But...
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“Liminal spaces” have become trendy in recent years, especially on TikTok, Tumblr, and YouTube. But what makes a space liminal? And why are they so popular lately?
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Modern Culture is Too Escapist, Part 1: Isolated vs. Integrated Arts Too much creative energy is focused on escaping the world, not on enhancing it.
a year ago
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The Sea Has Always Looked the Same A View of the Ocean as a Connection to the Past
a year ago
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The Necrologs of Bulgaria Remembering the Dead in Daily Life
a year ago
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Istanbul's Blue Tile Paradise The Hidden Mosque of Rüstem Pasha
a year ago
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From Gothic Invaders to Mall Goths How an ancient Germanic tribe gave its name to a modern subculture.
a year ago
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Plastic palm trees and inflatable pineapples An Interview with Max Ryynänen on the Tropical Kitsch
a year ago
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Gore Vidal Was Everywhere and Now He Is Nowhere The literary afterlife of "...an Augustan figure who believed himself to be the last of a breed, and...
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The literary afterlife of "...an Augustan figure who believed himself to be the last of a breed, and he was probably right."