Culture / Arts
Luke Jerram: Objectively Inspired
Slideshow October 15, 2009
The stunning work of an enigmatic artist. "We’re imposing our culture on scientific data whether we like it or not."
Now In Arts
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Opera in the Fifth Dimension
In Hypermusic Prologue, physicist Lisa Randall re-imagines her extradimensional theories of the universe as opera.
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Transitory Objects
Architecture, conceptual art, and theoretical science blur in these stunning, "permanently unfinished" forms in Vienna.
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Building Without Walls
A new breed of architectural objects, inspired by theoretical science, is changing how we think about building and what counts as art.
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Art Exhibit Links Darwin to Degas
A new exhibition reveals the extent of Darwin’s impact on 19th-century artists, from Monet to Rheinhold, and how art, in turn, shaped Darwin.
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Once Out of Nature
Isabella Kirkland’s life-size paintings of exotic, recently discovered species capture a world caught between the joys of discovery and the threat of imminent loss.
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Climate Change in High Definition
Earth the movie opens today in the US, 7 years since the Planet Earth franchise first started production. Has the footage become a chronicle of an already vanished world?
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After the Fall
Alexis Rockman’s latest exhibit portrays a psychedelic, posthuman natural world where our failings horrify but ultimately inspire us.
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The Sleep of Reason
Bruce Sterling reflects on artist Alexis Rockman's psychedelic, posthuman exhibit Half-life.
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Seeing Antlers, Feeling Dendrites
Christopher Reiger’s Synesthesia #1, the fluidity of perception, and how art can express phenomena in a way data alone cannot.
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The Amazing Race
The Linguists depicts an around-the-world race to make audio recordings of dying languages, giving us a glimpse of how technology can promote language diversity.
You Should Know
At the Edge of Perception
Artist Luke Jerram's work explores the limits of science and art, challenging the boundaries of both.
From the Studio
Portfolio: Flight Patterns
Richard Barnes's photographs of birds’ flight patterns above a Rome suburb highlight the tension between the individual and the collective.
What We Know
The Wagnerian Method
Physicists investigate the grand artistic vision of one of the most influential artists of the last two centuries.
Pareidolia, the psychological phenomenon of recognizing specific, identifiable forms in otherwise random stimuli.
The Rorschach Paintings
By Vesna Jovanovic
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World
Sad Sacks
As a UK adviser is fired over politically unpalatable advice and an English teacher is suspended over an article about animal sexuality, the fate of facts is on the line.
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Ideas
Sweet Obesity
As obesity rates soar, Americans are consuming more low-calorie artificial sweeteners. But do artificial sweeteners actually help people lose weight?
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Books
Books to Read Now
November releases feature the mysteries of Grigori Perelman, the evolutionary origins of reading, and strategies for containing strains of flu.
