This Ori Olokun head (or one like it) was first discovered in 1910 in Read More »
Out Of Africa – How Picasso Got It Wrong
Posts Categorized: Body
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 »
Harvard’s New Admissions Policy – What’s Art Got To Do With It
Water Lily Pond (1917) Claude Monet (1840-1926) * 
Harvard University announced in late January of this year a major revision to 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 »
NEWS & UPDATES: Placebos are real medicine for some people…And art’s place in this new landscape
Some pains are real, like when you skin your elbow; others have no Read More »
The Death Of Art – When Robots Replace Humans
“When the evening is spread out against the sky...” (Photo credit Cecilia Wong, 6/30/2015 Los Angeles)
Ex Machina
It’s actually an excellent movie, a suspense thriller about a Google-type Read More »
NEWS & UPDATES: The Wordless Wonders Of Our Inner Net
NEWS:
Vernon Mountcastle, father of neuroscience died this January at age 96
“Can our brain understand our brain?” is the real Read More »
Consciousness (Biological) Update – Of Stephen Hawking And Art
What exactly is consciousness?
There is a bonobo (a near relative of chimpanzees and our own close cousin) that in his lifetime learned Read More »
That Gut Feeling Is Right – Art & The Visceral (Vagus) Nerve
‘What is art?’ is nowadays a Read More »
Blurring Boundaries In Art – Why La La Land Is Such Fertile Ground
Great news from Los Angeles!
William Forsythe (American b. 1949, New York) will be Read More »