What is it about physics that so intimidates? Or is it just Einstein?
Le Corbusier recalled his visit to Princeton in 1946 to meet the Nobel laureate:
Rats & Brain Games – Rejuvenate Those Aging Neurons
What? We all know that those brain games you can buy – yes, they make you good at those games, and that’s about it. We need something more general, more basic that we can use in all circumstances.
Of Chimp & Child – And Aesop’s Fable
How smart is your four-year-old? Not as smart as a chimp, or maybe even Aesop’s rook. Watch these videos in the BBC News report Spitting and Urinating Chimps ‘Replay Aesop’s Fable.
Who Are Kiki & Booba? 98% of the People in the World Agree
So? But for sure 98% of the people in the world care – yes? Well, it’s just that Kiki and Booba may really be the Adam and Eve of our language.
Authentic Art – A Sequel
‘LOOKING at art is not SEEING Art–which when “seen” is from the solar plexus/soul not in the eyes. Can you tell when a person is [seeing] authentic??? saying their truth????’
(My answer to Eliane’s comment above in this post got a bit long so I am here making a post of it as it technically is another subject). Eliane put the spotlight now on the viewer:
I Went To The Whitney And…Threw Up
All right, not exactly right away but this really was a museum experience remembered by Henry Geldzahler, the legendary and sometimes controversial Metropolitan Museum curator of contemporary art from 1960 to 1977.
Teaching Is Like Broadcasting?
“I can see often, clearly in my head, a broadcasting booth, soundproof in glass, sitting at the head of a classroom. And on each student desk sits a radio, everyone tuned in to a different wavelength.”
Oh No, Art For Thought (?) – The 54th Venice Biennale
How far we’ve come!
In 1965, Susan Sontag wrote a ground breaking essay, Against Interpretation which she dedicated to the artist Paul Thek, a sometime lover
How Brainy Are We? Not Very
Let me count the beans…
We have about 100 billion neurons (nerve cells) in our brain, ok give or take a billion or two. Each neuron has an average of maybe 1000 synapses – connections between neurons without which the brain is as good as dead.
Is That de Kooning A Joke?
The Nobel prize-winning chemist Harold Kroto, in a lecture he gave in the British Library in 2006 asserted that all science started with art, with forms and shapes, and seeking balance and symmetry.
A recent research report from Simon Fraser University professor Travis Proulx claimed that abstract art is less threatening than absurd (surrealist) art,