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In thinking about the nature of art, I have come to believe that the art is a fundamentally social phenomenon; art exists primarily for social purposes. While there are many, many ways to “define” and understand the nature of art, and this certainly overlaps with some of them, I haven’t seen it stated in this way before. (If you have, I’d be interested in hearing about it. Update: here’s one response to this request, in the domain of music.)

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Is this weird Franken-picture really art? We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Advertisement The portrait looks like the sort of blurry image of a criminal you might see on the TV news. Or an oil painting that has been rained on, reducing the features to mush. But it is, in fact, the world’s first artificial intelligence (AI) artwork to be auctioned. It fetched an astonishing $432,500 in 2018. Portrait of Edmond de Belamy started a fierce debate, initially within the art community but then expanding to, of all places, evoluti...

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Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art announces digital publication 'The Strangeness of Beauty' The Metamorphosis, 2020. Oil and mixed media on canvas, 46 x 55 x 10 cm. LONDON .- Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art is presenting The Strangeness of Beauty, an online project examining the notion of aesthetics in contemporary art. Curated by Ziba Ardalan, Founder, Artistic and Executive Director of Parasol unit, the project takes place on our website and each week we present a new issue of contributions from invited artists, writers, curators and art professionals responding to q...