Jul./Aug. 2026 Venice, New York, & AI
From the Publisher
I love the Biennale de Arte, Venezia. Each Biennale seems to consider the state of the world, presenting
Review, Biennale de Arte, Venezia 2026
By Nancy Nesvet
The title, “In Minor Keys” refers to the key that plays lightly underscoring the major and stronger…
Biennale de Venezia, 2026 Trouble in Paradise
By Elga Wimmer
This year’s 61st edition of Biennale de Venezia got off to a shaky start. There were several issues. First, losing…
John Zieman: Weaponized Beauty
By Mark Bloch
John Zieman uses the word “lensing” as a verb, as opposed to “shooting” his video works, signifying…
Katya Leonovich: Katya’s Ghosts
By Elga Wimmer
Katya’s Ghosts, a solo exhibition by Katya Leonovich of watercolors, agua fortis etchings, and a multimedia installation…
Art and AI at the Threshold of Dictatorship
By Jorge M. Benítez
At the same time that American sociopolitical exceptionalism is proving to be false, a mostly American…
Argonautica and the Golden Lion
By Richard Humann
A full generation before Odysseus there was Jason. According to Appolonius of Rhodes, writing about it in the 3rd century BC…
Bellmer Nauman Pondick: Material Desire
By Elaine A. King
Against a backdrop of global conflict, urban violence, rising dictators and the surging influence of AI, the Bellmer Nauman Pondick exhibition arrives…
From the Publisher
By Nancy Nesvet
In this issue, we continue to cover protest by arts practitioners and the general outraged public, including music and lyrics…
The Song of Angry Men? Les Misérables as Protest Music
Does protest music have to be written with protest as an intention, or does context matter? A phenomenon…
Turning Pain into Power
By Cameron Gobermann
The discovery and love for protest music and art started for me in 2020. After Covid-19 hit the world…
Being Alive: A Brief History of the Idea of AI
Someone to crowd you with love
Someone to force you to care
Someone to make you come…
Just What Do You Think You’re Doing, HAL?
By Richard Humann
“My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you’d like to hear it, I can sing it for you…
The Digital Muse: Artificial Intelligence and the New Humanities
By Lanita Brooks-Colbrt
MIT postdoctoral researcher Ziv Epstein, SM ’19, PhD’23, addresses issues arising from the use of generative artificial intelligence in art…
Holding Space
By Jorge M. Benitez
Modernism and its aftermath eclipsed the old debate between the followers of Rubens and those of Poussin. Gerald McEachern…
Review, Biennale de Arte, Venezia 2026
By Nancy Nesvet
Humanity was front and center, in the crowds, protests, pavilions and collateral and unofficial…
From the Publisher
Nancy Nesvet
Graffiti, must be exhibited where the most people can best view it. That is why it was originally…
Can Art Shake Power? Creative Confrontation and the Role of Protest Art
By Lanita Brooks-Colbert
Across the ages, art has been a rallying cry for protest, surfacing wherever people have yearned for change. Some works have sparked new freedoms, while others…
Art for the Environment
By Pāg Black
Four of my assemblage works were installed at the Sagamore Hotel for Miami Art Week. While I was hosting a supporter of my foundation and his son, I observed a…
A Prayer Beneath the Gold
By Ekaterina Sky
For much of my life as an artist, my work has centered on animals, particularly endangered species and the fragile ecosystems…