Why The Big Basquiat Sale Is Art’s Capitalist Apocalypse by Jake Romm
An untitled painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat sold on May 15th for $110.5 million at a Sotheby’s auction. To which the...
Adam Curtis on the dangers of self-expression
Art Art is good; self-expression is great. What it isn’t is a substitute for political action to transform the world...
Charles Saatchi: the hideousness of the art world – by Charles Saatchi
Even a show-off like me finds this new, super-rich art-buying crowd vulgar and depressingly shallow Being an art buyer these...
YUVAL NOAH HARARI ON BIG DATA, GOOGLE AND THE END OF FREE WILL – Harari is historian and author of bestsellers SAPIENS and HOMO DEUS
Forget about listening to ourselves. In the age of data, algorithms have the answer. For thousands of years humans believed...
Here Are 6 Fundamental Questions the Art World Should Be Asking Itself. By Andrew M. Goldstein
The dawning of a new year is always an occasion for reflection on one's place in the world, and resolutions...
The Binge Breaker – Tristan Harris believes Silicon Valley is addicting us to our phones. He’s determined to make it stop. by BIANCA BOSKER
On a recent evening in San Francisco, Tristan Harris, a former product philosopher at Google, took a name tag from...
The Art Dealer for the Apocalypse: Stefan Simchowitz on How to Sell Artworks in a Chaotic World By Andrew M. Goldstein
As the art industry undergoes its messy transition into the globalized digital era, a handful of self-styled change agents have...
The Great A.I. Awakening: How Google used artificial intelligence to transform Google Translate, one of its more popular services — and how machine learning is poised to reinvent computing itself. BY GIDEON LEWIS-KRAUS
Gideon Lewis-Kraus is a writer at large for 'the magazine' NYT and a fellow at New America Prologue: You...
The price of connection: ‘surveillance capitalism’ by Nick Couldry
Nick Couldry is Professor of Media, Communications and Social Theory, London School of Economics and Political Science. Imagine, if you...
THE PARALLEL WORLD OF HARALD FALCKENBERG
Daiga Rudzāte spoke with German art collector Harald Falckenberg in Hamburg about art as a historical document and the relationship...
