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Harold Cohen: AARON, the show recently on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art is perhaps the first posthumous show of new work. It featured the artist's famous drawing robot AARON working tirelessly and creating new work in front of a live audience. With the present explosion of AI technology, the Whitney's show had both contemporary relevance as well as historical significance. Harold Cohen (1928 -2016), the British-born artist, built AARON'S hardware and wrote its software in the late 1960s at the University of California, San Diego. The Whitney's exhibit brings AARON to New York about sixty years after its debut and eight years after its creator's death. The show includes AARON'S output from its first attempts at abstract expressionism, wiggly lines on paper, to the complexities of representational art, figures in landscapes. The show gives viewers a glimpse not only of the machine's output throughout the years but of the changing nature of the relationship between the artist and his creation.

Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was a Russian painter credited as being among the first to truly venture into abstract art. He persisted in expressing his internal world of abstraction despite negative criticism from his peers. He veered away from painting that could be viewed as representational in order to express his emotions, leading to his unique use of colour and form. Although his works received heavy censure at the time, in later years they would become greatly influential.