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enlightenment

Museum patrons view the exhibit "Do You Remember They Can't Cancel The Spring - David Hockney 25" at Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris.

Realism Returns: The Resurgence of Traditional Art Skills in the Digital Age

Arline Mann, a former Goldman Sachs managing director turned painter, brings a lawyer’s precision and an artist's intuition to illuminate the quiet resurgence of representational painting in a digital age. Mann dissects the movement's broader return to classical technique, human touch and lived experience, making a case for realism as not just tradition, but a countercurrent and a lasting presence in contemporary art.
By Arline Mann

Review: David Graeber Argues that the Enlightenment Was Heavily Influenced by Pirates

The late anthropologist maintains that the pirate culture of Madagascar was a major influence on thinkers like Hobbes and Locke.
By Annie Levin
Thunder in the friend zone

A Wise Man Acts a Fool: Thundercat on Expanding Minds and Expectations

"I'll tell a bad joke, I don’t give a shit! What else do we have? I’m not supposed to fart in front of you?"—Thundercat
By Justin Joffe
Flying Lotus at Music Hall of Williamsburg in February

Flying Lotus & Jon Hopkins Get Extra Trippy for Transcendental Meditation

By Justin Joffe
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