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Wired June 2003 Hans Ulrich Obrist |
Live Free or Die Building bastions of creative freedom |
Reason May 2003 Nick Gillespie |
Soundbite: Is Art Good for Us? In Is Art Good for Us?: Beliefs about High Culture in American Life, Joli Jensen answers her titular question with a resounding no. She wants "us to give up the faith in the arts as doing good, and commit instead to a faith in the arts as being good." |
IDB America April 2003 Charo Quesada |
Culture factories In Brazil, art manages to rescue the young from crime and violence. |
Science News April 19, 2003 Ivars Peterson |
The Colors of an Equation's Roots A few artists have taken advantage of the techniques used to visualize mathematics to create aesthetically pleasing patterns and intriguing artworks. |
Science News April 5, 2003 Ivars Peterson |
Fractured Granite and Fractal Prints A fractured edge of granite tends to show the same degree of roughness at different magnifications. Indeed, nature features many irregular shapes that are self-similar -- that repeat themselves on different scales within the same object. |
IDB America March 2003 Roger Hamilton |
Where art and technology meet Italian artists explore technology as the medium and the message. |
IDB America February 2003 Charo Quesada |
Bearing witness through video A video art competition surveys Latin America's social and economic reality |
This Old House Walt Harrington |
An American Craftsman Everything Sam Maloof touches -- every chair, every table, every cabinet, every rafter, every molding, every window, every door, every latch -- reveals his genius. |
Reason March 2003 Jesse Walker |
But Is It Outsider Art? A prominent painter flunks a purity test. |
Science News February 8, 2003 Ivars Peterson |
A Graceful Sculpture's Showy Snow Crash Brent Collins has spent more than two decades carving gracefully curvaceous sculptures out of wood. Collins is not a mathematician, yet his intuition and aesthetic sense have led him to explore patterns and shapes that have an underlying mathematical logic. |
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