art

Spending a month at a scholar and artists' residency like the inimitable and incomparable Bogliasco Foundation in Liguria not only changes your work . . . it changes you!

What does it mean for the estate of an artist to withdraw permission to print any of the artist's images and text in a scholarly book? We've been having a lot of conversations about open access and we need to add another element to that conversation: the control of artists, writers, and their descendants on the publication of images that are displayed in museums, sold in the art market, and available in amateur images ubiquitously. The lecture by Michael Corris focuses on Ad Reinhardt but is a far larger issue. I wish our universities and museums would, collectively, enter this debate more vigorously.

After a run of Very Serious blog postings, HASTAC readers deserve a chuckle. Check out the top 37 creations (out of over 800 submissions) in the Second Annual Peeps Diorama Contest. I guess I'm not the only person who finds Peeps hilarious . . .

How does learning art, music, or dance impact our cognitive abilities?  

Here is a reposting from my TechPsych blog:

This set of pictures depict what I found on March 2, 2008 from the WeFeelFine website. I learned about this website in my Visualization class this semester.

 

A delightful YouTube video of an art installation/sculpture/invention by Mark Dixon . . . watch along with millions of others and smile!

Knitting is not just sweaters.

Is the science speed-up to blame for the glitzy multimedia presentation of even the most careful scientific experimental findings as big cure-all, one-size-fits-all generalizations that appear regularly in the mainstream press?