Article by Carol Vogel via New York Times, Art & Design, December 11, 2014 When it comes to exploring Picasso, it would seem there is little left for curators to discover, despite his prodigious output. Right now, there are two major gallery exhibitions, at Gagosian and at Pace, as well as a show of Cubist…
the god of colors: researchers shed new light on artist albrecht dürer
Almost 500 years after the death of Albrecht Dürer, new details about the mysterious life of the Renaissance painter are coming to light. To uncover the secrets of his brilliant works, researchers have used X-rays and infrared cameras, uncovering information even about the sex life of the art world’s first international star. With his wavy hair…
hunting for the origins of symbolic thought
Article by Ferris Jabr, via New York Times Magazine Three years ago, on an expedition to Sulawesi, one of the larger islands in the Indonesia archipelago, the archaeologist Adam Brumm visited a cave decorated with ancient art: mulberry-colored hand stencils and paintings of corpulent pig-deer and midget buffalo, complete with hairlike brush strokes. Squeezing past a…
math-inspired works of art
Mathematicians enthralled with unending fractals and flux patterns have been known to call math beautiful — but, increasingly, they aren’t the only ones. For many artists, calculations and numerical analyses provide a rich source of ideas and methods for their creations. The annual Bridges conference showcases the connections between art and mathematics. The conference features, among…
the physics of whisky
A photographer teamed up with scientists to figure out the fluid dynamics behind patterns left in whisky glasses Plenty of souls have searched for answers at the bottom of a glass of whisky. For Phoenix-based artist and photographer Ernie Button, that quest revealed some unexpected beauty, and set him out on a search for truth….
the daffodil code
Leonardo da Vinci always impressed on his students the importance of depicting nature accurately. He wrote: “Painter, you should know that you cannot be good if you are not a master universal enough to imitate with your art every kind of natural form.”
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