The world on a yoyo string

a poem

Jan 23 • Mark Gould

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December 2025

The Magic of A Charlie Brown Christmas

A cartoonist, jazz pianist, a kids choir and their producers created some of the most popular Christmas music of all time.

Dec 24, 2025 • Mark Gould

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Abstraction On Display

This season's art shows exhibit the best of the genre

Dec 4, 2025 • Mark Gould

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August 2025

The race for global dominance through artificial intelligence

Part 3 in a series: A government investment.

Aug 25, 2025 • Mark Gould

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June 2025

The Race for Artificial Intelligence

Part One in a series: We're told the US is in a worldwide competition and will spend hundreds of billions for superiority over China

Jun 15, 2025 • Mark Gould

May 2025

The Abstract Painter Who Found a New Way of Seeing and Launched the Abstract Expressionism Movement in America

Hans Hofmann's compositional techniques started an art revolution

May 29, 2025 • Mark Gould

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The 2025 Venice Biennale

Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective

May 6, 2025 • Mark Gould

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April 2025

An Enfolding: The Exhibitionary Complex and the Self

The essay argues that curatorial practice embodies a complex interplay between institutional power, the so-called “exhibitionary complex,” and acts of…

Apr 17, 2025 • Steven Henry Madoff

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Guernica in the Age of the Algorithm

Welcome to the Theater of Disinformation—Streaming 24/7 in High Definition

Apr 15, 2025 • Mark Gould

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March 2025

Art is surival, art is life

with thanks to Frida Kahlo

Mar 19, 2025 • Mark Gould

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January 2025

Biomorphs in development

and Google NotebookLM's robot podcasters

Jan 6, 2025 • Mark Gould

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December 2024

The Art of Literary Posters and Kaleidoscopic Orphist Discs

and artist Jay Taber explores hieroglyphs in his PNW studio

Dec 14, 2024 • Mark Gould

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