Vernon Fisher, artist and pillar of the Texas scene (and based in Fort Worth) has a retrospective opening at Mark Moore Gallery in Los Angeles on June 18. Fisher’s work…
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June 15, 2015
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EssayOp Ed
Crossing Benjamin’s Border: Rereading “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”
by Michael Biseby Michael BiseAs artists and writers, when we type in our usernames and passwords and enter into the near-mythic reproducibility of social media, we must never forget that our job is to remain rigorously critical in the face of distraction.
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A few days ago, superstar astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson (director of New York City’s Hayden Planetarium and executive editor/host of Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey, the recent reboot of Carl Sagan’s…