November 22, 2017
by Aesthetics for Birds
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The following is a post that appeared originally on the philosophy website Daily Nous as part of their “Philosophers On” series. Thanks to Justin Weinberg for permission to repost it here. The news over the past several months has been full of … Continue reading
November 7, 2017
by Alex King
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Tiffany’s is selling a tin can for $1000 and people are PISSED.
October 25, 2017
by Alex King
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In September this year, French-Luxembourgian performance artist Deborah De Robertis exposed her vagina in front of the Mona Lisa at the Louvre. A few days ago, she was acquitted of charges of sexual exhibitionism by Paris’s High Court. Why? Because (a) … Continue reading
August 16, 2017
by C. Thi Nguyen
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This is entry #68 in our 100 Philosophers, 100 Artworks, 100 Words Series.
May 12, 2017
by rebeccavictoriamillsop
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This is entry #65 in our 100 Philosophers, 100 Artworks, 100 Words Series.
April 19, 2017
by Alex King
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Performance art has always inhabited an ambiguous space between everyday behavior and marked-off ‘art’ behavior. And now ultra-conservative Infowars’ Alex Jones says that his vitriolic on-air personality is performance art. He refers to a recent incident as “clearly tongue-in-cheek and basically art … Continue reading
March 22, 2017
by rebeccavictoriamillsop
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The American Society for Aesthetics is pleased to provide $7500 in partial support of the Questioning Aesthetics Symposium: Black Aesthetics, to be held at Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, March 31-April 1, 2017. Funding is also being provided by Hampshire College, … Continue reading
March 22, 2017
by rebeccavictoriamillsop
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WHEN: 4/5/17-4/8/17 WHERE: Bucknell University CONTACT: Sheila Lintott (sheila.lintott@bucknell.edu) The American Society for Aesthetics has awarded $7,000 in partial support for the Conference on the Ethics and Aesthetics of Stand-Up Comedy at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, April 5-8, 2017. … Continue reading
October 18, 2016
by rebeccavictoriamillsop
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Perhaps you heard about the recent controversy at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis: Since opening in mid-September at CAM, a solo exhibition of white male artist Kelley Walker has been under fire over a series of works that appropriate images … Continue reading
April 15, 2016
by Aesthetics for Birds
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What follows is a guest post by Nils-Hennes Stear (University of Michigan) Last July, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (BMFA) put on an exhibition featuring Claude Monet’s La Japonaise (1875), a painting of Camille, Monet’s wife, dressed in a … Continue reading
