Copernicus reoriented the cosmos. But did he render art beige in the process? Yes, according to concept artist Jonathon Keats.

Copernicus revolutionized scientific and cultural history after proving that Earth was just another planet in a universe full of them. Conceptual philosopher and prankster Jonathon Keats has taken that Copernican thesis of astronomical mediocrity into the arts for his latest exhibit.

Opening Thursday at San Francisco’s Modernism Gallery, Keats’ multimedia clarion call for a Copernican revolution strips the arts down to their respective mediocrities. So long, singularity.

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