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Science News December 20, 2003 Ivars Peterson |
Sculpting with a Twist Japanese artist Keizo Ushio's fascinating sculptures provide a vivid introduction to the unsuspected intricacies of slicing bagels and cutting Mobius bands. |
IDB America November 2003 Roger Hamilton |
A century of art and nationhood IDB stages a 100-year retrospective of some of Panama's most celebrated artists |
Fast Company November 2003 Bill Breen |
Udder Artistry In her 44 years as the butter sculptress at the Iowa State Fair, Norma Lyon has churned out statues of everything from cows to Elvis to the Last Supper. |
Wired November 2003 Jeff Howe |
The Two Faces of Takashi Murakami He's high art. He's low culture. He's a one-man mass-market machine. |
Reason October 2003 Charles Paul Freund |
Dirty Secret David's flaws have been digitally mapped in preparation for his first cleaning since 1843, when the Michelangelo statue was bathed in hydrochloric acid. That won't happen again, but the question of how to clean him remains contentious, as does the issue of whether to clean him. |
Reason August 2003 Charles Paul Freund |
Vase Deferens Here's the 5,000-year-old Warka Vase; it was missing from Iraq's National Museum when Baghdad fell, but was returned in June by three men who had it in the trunk of their car. |
IDB America August 2003 Alexandra Russell-Bitting |
`A steaming cup of cultural amalgamation' IDB Cultural Center joins D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities to celebrate the Hispanic American Experience |
Reason August 2003 Jesse Walker |
Two Cheers for Totalitarian Art Some of it's good, and the rest is ripe for mocking |
National Gardening Kathy Bond Borie |
Garden Guru: Lynden B. Miller Artist and gardener Lynden B. Miller had been a landscape painter for 18 years and was ready for a break from her studio when in 1982 a friend asked for her help on a daunting new project: restoring New York's Central Park. |
Science News August 30, 2003 Ivars Peterson |
Hyperbolic Five Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher devised many highly original schemes in his attempts to capture the concept of infinity visually. In some cases, he took advantage of the peculiarities of hyperbolic geometry to create an illusion of infinity. |
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