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Launching today, the Dr. Martens Buzz returns for AW26 with new textures, colours, and proportions. Drawing on chunky styles from the brand’s 1990s archive, the latest collection balances its ...

SHL0MS, Untitled Tweet, X.com. Anonymous artist SHL0MS turned a Monet Water Lilies painting into a viral performance artwork by posting it on X as AI-generated and asking viewers to explain why it was ...

This month saw the Bauhaus school turn 100, which means that there’s no better time than the present to reflect on its ongoing influence across the design and art worlds. We spoke to a number of ...

"For us, rave culture was a method of escapism, and it gave us a new sense of community.” One of the main challenges of creating Wasteland was capturing those movements for the stage. “Raving is all ...

Anan Fries on Ritual, Techno-Fascism, and Silicon Valley's AI Mythology Artificial intelligence is often framed as a technological revolution, but its cultural impact extends far beyond questions of ...

Founded by Hugo Ball in 1916, Dada was an art movement that attempted to subvert European bourgeois ideals and hypocrisy. Taking place at Cabaret Voltaire in Zürich, some of their most legendary ...

Kevin McCoy, “Quantum”, 2014, Animated GIF, Non-fungible token. Image Courtesy of Jennifer and Kevin McCoy. NFTs made artists rich overnight, crashed spectacularly, and became shorthand for hype, ...

As artificial intelligence reshapes public debates around images, authorship, and cultural production, Trevor Paglen‘s ideas have taken on renewed urgency. Bringing together a decade of essays, his ...

Kevin Esherick on AI Agents, Authorship, and Replacing the Artist. Kevin Esherick, Los Angeles, CA, generated image, 2025. For one year, Kevin Esherick has stopped making art. Instead, an AI agent ...

“Remember, it all started with biology and nature. Everything we made, everything we had, came from biology,” says Suzanne Lee, CEO of Biofabricate and two-time TED Talker. “But, it wasn’t scaleable.” ...

The 2010s were all about burying the fashion mistakes of the 2000s: poorly cropped jeans (or worse, capris), halter tops, Juicy sweatsuits, and ill-fitting hats. Not many have come out of the ‘00s ...