Striking museum gold…I can see through you…Let’s go avant-garde… Bug-eyed Neanderthals…Bees do it…
Author: Cecilia Wong
How Your Brain Looks at Art – Molecular Yoga and Beholder’s Share
On a cold winter day, when someone opens a door to get into our warm house, a cold blast of air also comes in. How Houdini dreamed
Duchamp’s Dao – Making An Art of Himself
The Art Newspaper recently republished an interview with Marcel Duchamp by the Belgian director Jean Antoine done in 1966 (two years before Duchamp’s death), but the transcript was only available in English in 1993, when it was first published. Duchamp here set
Silence as Art – The Art of Space
Artists again led the way … science has only just caught up…
Do Americans See Differently from Asians? The Myth Revealed
Researchers at the University of Michigan measured the eye movements of American and Chinese graduate students who viewed photographs
The Human Brain Project – A Virtual Brain on the Horizon
Oh, a schizophrenic mouse! This or that part of the brain lights up when we are deciding to eat this pie or that…An ‘experiment’ using MRI to find out why women like shoes …
How to Tell Good Art? Will Peer Review Work?
I write about art and science, their similarities and differences, their struggles and conciliations; how they are perceived…
The Aesthetic Experience Exposed – The Science
The New York critic Peter Schjeldahl’s flip-flop last year in his opinion of a painting, Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907), by Gustav Klimt started
With Open Arms – The New Berkeley Art Museum
The New York Times’ Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic, Holland Cotter has written about the wonders and possibilities of university museums. After viewing
NEWS: WINTER 2012 – Happenings in Art, Science and Other Stuff
HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS: Your brain wiring in 3-D…
The Human Connectome Project can now scan and show all the wiring in your brain – but not yet