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A Tacit Acceptance of Unknowability: Experimental Philosopher Jonathon Keats and His Alien Instruments

Posted on August 30, 2018 by Second Shoppe Manager

Recent years have seen tribal lines drawn across the globe, with an increasingly divisive and xenophobic political climate both in the United States and abroad. It’s a change in tenor we perhaps should have seen coming, but many of the most strident political analysts have been taken aback by the “Us vs. Them” rhetoric that has become so prevalent since the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Experimental philosopher Jonathon Keats, known for past endeavors such as the Pangaea Optima and Superego Suits, has proposed one idea for alleviating the current culture of hate: to turn our eyes – and ears – to …Continue reading →

Posted in Interviews | Tagged alien instruments, aliens, art, art exhibit, Extraterrestrial, interview, Jonathon Keats, Modernism Gallery, UFOs | Leave a comment

San Francisco Opens a Walk-In Human Cloning Agency

Posted on October 4, 2012 by editor

For millennia people have struggled to craft the human form in materials from clay to silicone. But while there have been some popular hits such as Michelangelo’s David, nothing in the world’s museums shows the subtlety to be seen in the living body. In our scientifically advanced society, the optimal way to create a portrait is to clone the human subject. Conventional genetic cloning is technically problematic, but only because cloners apply antiquated genetic concepts. Recently biologists have learned that the genes you inherit don’t determine who you become. What matters is which genes are expressed, and gene expression depends …Continue reading →

Posted in Essays | Tagged AC Institute, Barack Obama, epigenetic cloning, Lady Gaga, Michael Phelps, Modernism Gallery | Leave a comment

The First Copernican Art Manifesto: A New Paradigm

Posted on September 27, 2011 by editor

Science began with the Copernican Revolution. Recognition that the world is an average planet, and that our place in the cosmos is nothing special, has allowed humanity to make generalizations about the universe based on local observations. Yet while the Copernican Revolution has enlightened scientists for centuries, art remains Ptolemaic. The work most cherished is esteemed for being atypical. Whether admired for academic skillfulness or avant-garde boldness, the masterpiece is our artistic ideal. If art is to foster universal understanding – and be more than a cultural trophy – the great works must be abandoned. We must banish masterpieces as …Continue reading →

Posted in News | Tagged artwork, Bach, Copernican, Da Vinci, manifesto, Modernism Gallery, Mona Lisa, Ptolemaic, Revolution, Well Tempered Clavier | Leave a comment

Naomie Kremer: The Vocabulary of Obsession and Obsessiveness

Posted on March 28, 2011 by ZYZZYVA

Naomie Kremer has been described as “a remarkable and innovative colorist, with a subtle mastery of intimating interior meaning.” Her current exhibition, “Multiverse Part I,” at Modernism Gallery in San Francisco through April 23, showcases 12 of her densely layered oil-on-linen paintings, all characterized by Kremer’s sensuous use of color, her energetic and meticulous brushwork, and a complex, detailed sense of structure. Yet her work in black and white is integral to her craft, and equally compelling. ZYZZYVA sat down with the Bay Area artist in her bright and inviting studio in Oakland on a recent stormy day. As the …Continue reading →