Coverage of art scenes, cultural dynamics, advocacy, and community structures across physical and digital worlds.
Voice and communication are two words that get thrown around constantly in art education, often interchangeably, as if they mean the same thing. They do not. Communication in art is about transmission. It is the part of the work that reaches outward: the colour choices, the composition, the materials, the scale, the placement, the context. … Read more
Art is sometimes described as a universal language, which is one of those phrases that sounds profound until you think about it for more than ten seconds. Art is not universal. It is deeply specific. A Yoruba masquerade, a Song dynasty ink painting, a Sol LeWitt wall drawing, and a Second Life installation are all … Read more
Authenticity is one of those words the art world loves to use without ever properly defining. It gets applied to everything from provenance certificates to emotional sincerity, and half the time it means little more than “this feels real to me, personally, right now.” It is worth being more careful with it. In the strictest … Read more