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DATALAND
How an AI Museum Disappointed Me

Milosh Soberman is 14 years old and does not like art. He recently visited Dataland, “the world’s first Museum of AI Arts. With this being an AI museum, I thought I wouldn’t need to show up in order to write a review. “Dataland” isn’t what you initially picture when your friend pokes your brain with the phrase “It’s an AI museum.” Depending on what you’re seeing in each screen-filled room, a...

ARTIST TAKEOVER: MAX HOOPER SCHNEIDER

by Max Hooper Schneider

THE HAND OF THE UNDISCIPLINED There was a time when art and science, theory and practice, and differing areas of thought, were not considered unrelated endeavors and I am more comfortable with this “undisciplined” mode of thinking: in general, and about what I do day to day. There is a book—more like a tome—written around 1400 by the Paduan painter Cennino d’Andrea Cennini which builds upon...

THE HORROR OF TIME
A Short Story

by Tom Comitta

In 2012, Daniel Zalewski profiled Christian Marclay and The Clock(2010) in The New Yorker. The piece includes a single, throwaway reference to an assistant: “One fellow, who offered little but gunshots and ‘guys getting their heads chopped off,’ was fired.” Over the next month, The Clock returns to LACMA. —TC From now till death do me part, from the momentmy rigor-mortis-wracked corpse is...

DUELLING REVIEWS: DYNATON
Two takes on "Dynaton: Convocation of Radiant Beings" at Chateau Shatto

by Brian Karl, Peter Frank

JULIA WEIST
at New Theater Hollywood

by Marianne Filaretou

As a kid, spaghetti westerns made me sweat. Not the violence, the dubbing—that quality where a mouth moves at one rhythm and the voice lands just slightly off it, as if the sound had come loose from the body and traveled through some other room to reach me. I hadn’t thought about that in years until I sat down for Julia Weist’s Questioning at New Theater Hollywood and felt my whole body go back...

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Reviews

DUELLING REVIEWS: DYNATON
Two takes on "Dynaton: Convocation of Radiant Beings" at Chateau Shatto

JULIA WEIST
at New Theater Hollywood

THE HATS OF HEDDA HOPPER
Counterpoint Records and Books

Hollywood has always needed a narrator, because the creation of real-life mythology relies on being understood and, more importantly, being believed. The unscripted stories of backstage life were exclusive precisely because there appeared to be no obvious writer or...

ALONE, ALONE, ALL, ALL ALONE
at Ehrlich Steinberg

Everyone seemed to agree that "Alone, alone, all, all alone was topical. The word hovered around the opening at Ehrlich Steinberg with the peculiar force of consensus: loneliness, online life, avatars, algorithms, the thinning distinction between connection and its...

RODRIGO RAMIREZ
at Murmurs

When is a human no longer a human? When is the body no longer a body? These questions have been turned over by all manner of modern philosophers, from abortion activists to judges handling necrophilia cases to science fiction filmmakers. Now Mexican-American artist...

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