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

Robert Smithson’s Dream Come True – In a Quarry Hotel in Shanghai?

Land Art in the form of a hotel?

More than that – it’s also an aquatic park, aquarium, rock climber’s haven… not to mention extreme sports fanatics’ playground. Best of all, all these will provide great entertainment for the hotel guests on their balcony, win-win, I imagine.

A Baroque Splendor – In-A-Gada-Da-Vida

This spring 2004 exhibition in Tate Britain is a triumph of beauty and horror.  And if beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, so is horror.  It follows then that beauty and horror can be one and  the same thing – and so it goes in this garbled Garden of Eden.