We don't actually know this guy very well. Image of the Droeshout Engraving via Wikimedia Commons

At some point in the last few years, “identity” became a nasty word. It’s not just identity theft, identity politics or identity requirements. It’s everywhere — maybe especially on the web.

People like Google’s Eric Schmidt began to talk about “identity services” instead of social networks. Identity became synonymous with fixed, verified, monetizable personhood.

Meanwhile, its opposite, Anonymous, became synonymous for many with sheer chaos, whether they were attacking online businesses or careless...

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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