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Feuilleton 1: After the apocalypse; the ethical element; Christmas; reading.

Silence (Martin Scorsese, 2016)

Blankets (Craig Thompson, 2003)

Interview with Emily Davis

Fall reading / link roundup

Two paintings with latent symbolism

Christian ethics and the male gaze

Thoughts on graphic novels

ARTIST PROJECT: Fitter, Happier, Illustrated.

Artists as stewards of culture

The AI art generators are drawing on the left side of whatever brain they have

Dikla Laor's photographs of the women of the Bible

Summer reading / link roundup

Michael Kammen maps the landscape of art fights

Josh Tiessen's animals and the end of civilization

Artists and agency: assumptions and limits

What vaporwave says about music in our time

The Batman (Matt Reeves, 2022)

Sounding Stones (Leslie Iwai, 2004)

AI art: what can, and can't (yet), be done

Rembrandt Is in the Wind (Russ Ramsey, 2022)

Good art / bad art / non-art

A mineral—that is, a completely inanimate object

A map of the territory

The proper response to an art of sorrow

North Star (Philip Glass, 1977)

The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925)

James Elkins maps the limits of visual cognizance

The Book of Eli (The Hughes Brothers, 2010)

The Suburbs (Arcade Fire, 2010)

Cathedrals and stained glass, and ruins of cathedrals and ruins of stained glass

Critics have a much more useful role than you might think

From the front lines of the NFT vs. furry war

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