"a call for new aesthetics" and the future of art
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on "A Call for New Aesthetics," Bauhaus, Walter Benjamin's "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," etc.
Paul Klee, Bauhaus Ausstellung Weimar 1923, 1923 In December 2025, Tyler Cowen and Patrick Collison published “A Call for New Aesthetics,” a call to action for “artists, architects, and designers who are consciously working to define New Aesthetics,” invoking Bauhaus as a movement that “[defined] an aesthetic for the twentieth century.” In conversations I’ve had with artists, many, if not all, pointed to the internet as a major turning point for aesthetics, irrevocably changing how we think about art and culture at-large. The question is not whether contemporary art still produces shared…
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