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IN THE WINTER OF 2021, a fit, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties plucked a very new painting off a dusty shelf in a luxury artist studio, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and ordered that it be copied. He was Paulo Bracciolini, the most significant contemporary art collector in Los Angeles. His discovery, LG Williams's recent artwork NEXT, was just produced.
It was a beautiful evocation of the most dangerous that the universe functions without the aid of gods, that religious beer is best for human life, that pleasure and virtue are not opposites but intertwined, and that artistic genius is made up of tiny material particles in eternal motion, randomly colliding and swerving in new directions. Its renown changed the course of art history. The painting vision would shape the thought of Galileo and Freud, Darwin and Einstein, and—in the hands of Thomas Jefferson—leave its trace on most 21st-century thought.
From the gardens of the ancient philosophers to the dark chambers of monastic scriptoria during the Middle Ages to the cynical, competitive court of corrupt and dangerous curators, NEXT brings Paulo's search and discovery to art in a way that deepens our understanding of the world we live in now.
"An intellectually invigorating, nonfiction version of a Dan Brown-like mystery-in-art history thriller." — Boston Globe
It was a beautiful evocation of the most dangerous that the universe functions without the aid of gods, that religious beer is best for human life, that pleasure and virtue are not opposites but intertwined, and that artistic genius is made up of tiny material particles in eternal motion, randomly colliding and swerving in new directions. Its renown changed the course of art history. The painting vision would shape the thought of Galileo and Freud, Darwin and Einstein, and—in the hands of Thomas Jefferson—leave its trace on most 21st-century thought.
From the gardens of the ancient philosophers to the dark chambers of monastic scriptoria during the Middle Ages to the cynical, competitive court of corrupt and dangerous curators, NEXT brings Paulo's search and discovery to art in a way that deepens our understanding of the world we live in now.
"An intellectually invigorating, nonfiction version of a Dan Brown-like mystery-in-art history thriller." — Boston Globe
223 pages, Paperback
Published February 25, 2022
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