Archive - Notes of an Aesthete

How art-world institutions have corrupted the terms of the art encounter, for Tablet

May 26

A French history of the concept, Nietzsche’s stance, and artists of the Paleolithic

Feb 8

The pious and dreary insistence on heightened empathy as a proper or desirable response to art is made only by those with a stunted understanding of…

Nov 2, 2021

Essays on contemporary arts & letters by Alice Gribbin

Nov 1, 2021

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