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
Category: Art
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…
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
Mao Revolution in Shantou – Art in the Provinces
Red Dreams, 2007, Zheng Yunghua, Shantou University, China
Here’s a refreshing piece of art – one made far away from
Learning at Shantou University – Reading Kafka in China
Andy Warhol: 15 Minutes Eternal is now at the Hong Kong Museum of Art (through March 31). During the opening festivities there last December, word came that
Can Video Games Be Art, Be Ballet, or Be Science? FoldIt Protein Folding Games
Protein folding? Well, it’s a video game.
Since 2008, scientists
Learning at Harvard – Making Pottery & Watching Plants Grow
Consciousness is not a thing, but a process – William James.
Process is the new