Frank Stella, Printmaker
The legendary artist Frank Stella keeps a Ferrari in his studio as a reminder that his art better measure up to his race car. He's a racing enthusiast and one of his favorite quotes is from Mario...
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Choreogapher Bill T. Jones recommends Lawrence Weschler's "Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees."
View ArticleThe Radical Artist
"I can't remember a time when I wasn't drawing," says Molly Crabapple. "I can't not draw. It's how I relate to the world." And Crabapple's art - her drawings, paintings and posters - have ignited...
View ArticleMake It Strange
Philosopher Alva Noe has a theory about art. He says art is like philosophy, and the best art is disorienting and uncomfortable. It takes you into a space you didn't even know was there.
View ArticleA Thousand Times No
How do you join a revolution? Egyptian artist Bahia Shehab says she was too quiet to shout in the streets during the uprising in Cairo, so she started spraying graffiti with the word "no" in Arabic. No...
View ArticleBehind the Mask of the “American Male”
This six minute short film sets a typical frat house scene with heightened visual intensity: beer pong, drunk girls, guys with their shirts off doing shots, hazing rituals, fights. The twist is that...
View ArticleFrank Stella, Printmaker
The legendary artist Frank Stella keeps a Ferrari in his studio as a reminder that his art better measure up to his race car. He's a racing enthusiast and one of his favorite quotes is from Mario...
View ArticleArt as Therapy
Maybe you're familiar with art therapy - making art to cope with pain. Philosopher Alain de Botton has a different idea. He thinks just looking at great art can be therapeutic.
View ArticleMake It Strange
Philosopher Alva Noe has a theory about art. He says art is like philosophy, and the best art is disorienting and uncomfortable. It takes you into a space you didn't even know was there.
View ArticleA Thousand Times No
How do you join a revolution? Egyptian artist Bahia Shehab says she was too quiet to shout in the streets during the uprising in Cairo, so she started spraying graffiti with the word "no" in Arabic. No...
View ArticleThe Radical Artist
"I can't remember a time when I wasn't drawing," says Molly Crabapple. "I can't not draw. It's how I relate to the world." And Crabapple's art - her drawings, paintings and posters - have ignited...
View ArticleMachine Music Theory 101
Doug Eck directs Google’s new “Magenta” project, an experiment in teaching machines to make art, leveraging advances in machine learning like neural networks to enable computers to do things like...
View ArticleArt as Therapy
Maybe you're familiar with art therapy - making art to cope with pain. Philosopher Alain de Botton has a different idea. He thinks just looking at great art can be therapeutic.
View ArticleThe Radical Artist
"I can't remember a time when I wasn't drawing," says Molly Crabapple. "I can't not draw. It's how I relate to the world." And Crabapple's art - her drawings, paintings and posters - have ignited...
View ArticleArt as Therapy
Maybe you're familiar with art therapy - making art to cope with pain. Philosopher Alain de Botton has a different idea. He thinks just looking at great art can be therapeutic.
View ArticleFrank Stella, Printmaker
The legendary artist Frank Stella keeps a Ferrari in his studio as a reminder that his art better measure up to his race car. He's a racing enthusiast and one of his favorite quotes is from Mario...
View ArticleArt as Therapy
Maybe you're familiar with art therapy - making art to cope with pain. Philosopher Alain de Botton has a different idea. He thinks just looking at great art can be therapeutic.
View ArticleFrank Stella, Printmaker
The legendary artist Frank Stella keeps a Ferrari in his studio as a reminder that his art better measure up to his race car. He's a racing enthusiast and one of his favorite quotes is from Mario...
View ArticleWhat Sartre Meant by “Hell is Other People”
Philosopher Gregory Sadler has a fascinating take on the famous line from French philosopher Jean Paul Sartre’s 1944 play, “No Exit.”
View ArticlePhotography Beyond Tragedy
The stereotype of photojournalists is that they’re adrenaline junkies. Risk takers. But they're often surprisingly humble about their work -- maybe because their job is to erase themselves, to become...
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