Issue #9 of AICA E-Mag

September 16, 2024

Issue 9 of AICA's e-mag is now available online! Read the issue here.

Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll find inside:

David Bundy’s book review "Who Owns Copyright, A History of Copyrights and Wrongs" (W.W. Norton, 2024) by David Bellos and Alexandre Montague explores the evolution of copyright protection, including comparisons about the positive and negative effects.

Sandra Hitner's "Crypto Art and NFT Art: A New Chapter in the Historiography of Art" scrutinizes new and controversial ways of creating/producing in the aesthetic arena (English & Spanish).

Małgorzata Kaźmierczak’s "FEAR BITES THE SOUL: Censorship in Eastern Europe" probes that ‘despite the fact most countries in the region of the EU are outwardly pro-European, are members of the EU or seeking membership, there is not among them universal acceptance of EU values, one of which is freedom of expression as a basic human right’ (published in FREEMUSE, The State of Artistic Freedom, 2024).

Ellen K. Levy by Leslie Wayne is an interview about Levy’s recent exhibition, "Art that Engages with Science and Archives", exploring the present which ‘is generating powerful technologies and scientific insights that enable fresh, even exhilarating opportunities but carry high risk to life’ (published in BOMB Magazine, June 24, 2024).

Larry Vescera’s "Rip Van Winkle on Women and the Art World", based on Vescera’s aesthetic careers, muses that ‘this new diversity and creativity explosion are the growth of the number of women artists now producing works’.

Juan Carlos Flores Zúñiga’s "The Rebel Art of Rembrandt" revisits this ‘prolific and innovative painter, engraver, draftsman, womanizer, fighter, debtor and genius of the Netherlands’ on the upcoming 355th anniversary of his death.