Christo and Jeanne-Claude, The London Mastaba, Serpentine Lake, Hyde Park 2016 – 2018, a temporary floating sculpture on The Serpentine Lake. *
The middle of June is probably not Read More »
On the Wall and More – June in London and Paris
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Art & Math – Percussion Of Stone-age Serengeti
1.6 million-year-old stone handaxe (British Museum) from the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania.
Stone knapping was what Read More »
Cézanne The Neuro-artist – Form Over Color
Mont Sainte-Victoire (1906) Paul Cézanne (French 1839–1906) #/media/File:Paul_C%C3%A9zanne_111.jpg)
Keep your eyes at one of the dark spots in the painting – you can Read More »
Out Of Africa – How Picasso Got It Wrong
This Ori Olokun head (or one like it) was first discovered in 1910 in Read More »
The White House’s NMI – Out Of Sight, Not Out Of Mind
From the American Museum of Natural History—All you want to know about microbes
Multiple sclerosis is the degeneration of the Read More »
Vietnam Veterans Memorial(s) – Which One Is Art?
A haunting picture – remembering a comrade (Photo credit:Linda Davidson/THE WASHINGTON POST)
There are in reality three Vietnam Veterans Memorials. The third one is not Read More »
Ten Years On – Information vs Knowledge
DIKW pyramid (1991)
It was ten years ago, in late 2005 that I completed the essay which appears as the ‘flagship’ of this website: Information = Knowledge? My thesis is that knowledge is Read More »
When A Museum Experiments – The Hillman Photography Initiative At CMOA
The Persistence of Memory (1931), by Salvador Dalí (Spanish, 1904 – 1989) is a kind of soft image. *
Photography has always had a Read More »
Cartographer’s Conundrum Revisited – Sanford Biggers Was Right
The Cartographer’s Conundrum (2012), Sanford Biggers (USA b.1970, Installation view from art21)
Church pews ascend towards the heavens as they recede Read More »
Tech Use In Museums – Tate Sensorium & More…
Basket of Apples (1895), Paul Cezanne (French 1839 – 1906)
Can you smell, taste, or feel the roundness, or the ripeness of these apples? Do you need help? (See note below)
Digital technology has Read More »