Archive - Victor Liu . Art

Generative AI and the Arts: “art is essentially social”

I’ve read a recent essay by Ted Chiang in the New Yorker (my free article for the month!), on why generative AI does not make art.

Nov 11, 2024 •

October 2023

Statement on work, 18 October 2023

I want to talk about some of the difficult imagery in my work.

Oct 18, 2023 •

Mark Neville: Stop Tanks With Books

The drumbeat of war surrounds us now, the news never letting up.

Oct 13, 2023 •

May 2023

Josh Kline: Project for a New American Century

This is who we are.

May 20, 2023 •

Jordan Nassar: A Mountain Looms

As you enter, there’s a place on the side table to drop your keys.

May 3, 2023 •

March 2023

Laura Poitras and Nan Goldin: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

To come out the other side.

Mar 22, 2023 •

February 2023

David Hockney: 20 Flowers and Some Bigger Pictures

I didn’t know what to expect with this Hockney show at Pace, only that I knew he had been working in France, using an iPad instead of paints and canvas.

Feb 22, 2023 •

November 2022

Generative AI and the Arts: 10 Extrapolations

Generative AI software for producing visual art, like Dall-E 2 and Stable Diffusion, are having an impact comparable to that of the first cameras on…

Nov 13, 2022 •

October 2022

Christina Quarles: In 24 Days tha Sun'll Set at 7pm

Francis Bacon is having a moment.

Oct 17, 2022 •

September 2022

Abdulnasser Gharem: Hospitable Thoughts

Clarity in political art is difficult to pull off, if the artwork aims to be more than a poster or bumper sticker.

Sep 18, 2022 •

August 2022

Charles Ray: Figure Ground

Two immediate modes of appreciation hit me when looking at Charles Ray’s work.

Aug 6, 2022 •

July 2022

Michaël Borremans: The Acrobat

The paintings, all similar in format, of ‘characters’, centered within their frames, portrayed from waist up or more closely on the head, hang in one…

Jul 14, 2022 •

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