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Re-Air: Why Artist Trevor Paglen Is Doing Everything He Can to Warn Humanity About Artificial Intelligence
In fall 2019, a new app called ImageNet Roulette was introduced to the world with what seemed like a simple, fun premise: snap a selfie, upload it to a database, and wait a few seconds for machine l…
Published on 4 years, 9 months ago
What Will Be the Fate of the Benin Bronzes?
The story of the Benin Bronzes is one of the bloodier, more shameful chapters in the history of the Western world’s "encyclopedic" museums.
Looted from the Kingdom of Benin in 1897 by the British in …
Published on 4 years, 9 months ago
The Haunting History of the Benin Bronzes
For decades, one of the most urgent moral debates in the museum world has revolved around restitution, with art institutions around the world facing demands that masterworks in their collections be r…
Published on 4 years, 10 months ago
The Surprising Lessons of FDR’s New Deal Art Programs
Shockingly enough, we are now coming up on the one year anniversary of the lockdown of the United States. At this point last year, a creeping dread had begun to blanket the globe. And then in March i…
Published on 4 years, 10 months ago
5 Steamy, Whirlwind Romances That Changed Art History
In case you’ve forgotten—in which case, shame on you!—Valentine’s Day is right around the corner again, and we here at the Art Angle are all atwitter.We just love love, particularly when it comes to …
Published on 4 years, 10 months ago
Kickstarter Founder Perry Chen on Art in the Age of Hypercomplexity
It’s no secret that today we live in a world of dizzying, gobsmacking, and ever-intensifying complexity. Everything from the computers we carry in our pockets to the vaccines fighting the pandemic to…
Published on 4 years, 10 months ago
MoMA Curator Paola Antonelli on Design for the Post-Pandemic World
Right now, one of the most talked-about issues at hand for members of the international workforce is: what comes next? For those of us fortunate enough to work from home, will we persist in our pajam…
Published on 4 years, 10 months ago
Artist Daniel Arsham on How He Built a Creative Empire
When he was just 12 years old, Daniel Arsham had a near-death experience. Living in Florida with his parents, Hurricane Andrew struck in 1992, careening across the coastal state and taking with it Ar…
Published on 4 years, 11 months ago
8 Predictions on How the Art World Will Shift in 2021
No one could have foreseen the giant boomerang of a year that was 2020. With its trifecta of health, financial, and social crises, it could not have been predicted by even the most studied of sages. …
Published on 4 years, 11 months ago
Can Art Help End the Era of Mass Incarceration?
Right now, more than 2 million people are living behind bars in prisons across America. California's San Quentin Prison is currently at 117 percent capacity. And with the coronavirus pandemic running…
Published on 4 years, 11 months ago