“Rebirth of the modern: The future of art and artists in the era of artificial intelligence” by Aaron Peck (TLS)

*Sigh*

Same as it ever was ©

Eno is, in many ways, an heir to a more traditional, “brandless” concept of the avant-garde. The generative music that he began making in the 1970s – which he called “as ignorable as it is interesting” – endeavoured to synthesize environment and music, an attempt of a sort to merge art and life. What Art Does is thus an unexpected extension of those sensibilities. His theory – that art allows humans to explore and engage in how they feel – conceives of artistic ideas as shared, from how we design a screwdriver to how we enjoy a picture. “When we see a new earring, or any artwork”, he writes, “we look at where this new one sits in our history of looking at artworks. It’s like being presented with the latest sentence in a long story.” ©