Happy Thanksgiving to all of our lovely readers!
Today – as throughout the year – we’re thankful for you, for making this a fun and stimulating space to talk about aesthetics and the philosophy of art.
As a little 30-second Thanksgiving Day treat, enjoy turkey dinners in the style of a few famous painters.
Today, we’ve got a few holiday-themed mini-essays by our regular contributors about Christmas movies, music, and lights. Continue reading
As before, we’re bringing you some holiday-themed mini-essays by a few of our regular contributors. Today we’ll be providing some philosophical reflections on Thanksgiving, tradition, and FOOD. Continue reading
In the past, AFB has posted a few appropriately themed music videos for the holidays (see, e.g., here and here). But we’ve decided to take it up a notch!
When a holiday rolls around, various regular contributors to AFB will spotlight holiday-appropriate works of art. These are not necessarily works that the particular contributor thinks are the absolute best (although they might be), and they are not necessarily unfamiliar or particularly avant-garde. But hopefully the mini-essays included will introduce you to a new perspective on at least some of these works, or even just remind you of really cool works that fit that into the holiday mood!
In the future we plan on setting these up as a series of week-long mini-posts leading up to the holiday in question, but this Halloween we’re just going to throw a few of them at you all at once. So here goes! Continue reading
