what is art?

attempting to define

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“A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.”

-Elaine de Kooning

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-from Brandon Stanton, Humans of NY

“Art is an institution to which we turn when we want to feel a shock of surprise. We feel this want because we sense that it is good for us once in a while to receive a healthy jolt. Otherwise we would so easily get stuck in a rut and could no longer adapt to the new demands that life is apt to make on us. The biological function of art, in other

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Beuys believed everybody was an artist. He once said "every sphere of human activity, even peeling a potato can be a work of art as long as it is a conscious act," suggesting that every decision should be thought out and attempt to make or contribute to a work of art which in the end is society.

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“Where there is selection there is art.” —BH Liddell Hart.

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GenerativeAI can conjure up a tree if you ask for one, but it will come from the commonality of attributes across the trees in the model’s training data. Under the hood, large language models (LLMs) and generative media models are trained on massive amounts of data to help predict a sequence of words or pixels based on the prompt you provide. So,... See more

Scott Belsky • DIY Software, Where Betting Markets May Take Us, & What Makes Art

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First comes the awe: can you believe this? Look at this video of a man running backwards on a treadmill!

Then, the panic: given art's decidedly specific turn to "man in sweats running backwards on treadmill" motifs, will art as we know it become obsolete?

Absolutely not.

Culture, or Art, is the response to society. The deviation.

Alex Dobrenko` • Will AI Replace the Artist?

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amazing piece on whether AI will replace the artist. the answer is no, of course not. why? because culture is smarter than we are.

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the power of art