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Art and Humor
Why does it seem odd to suggest that art can be humorous? It’s not as though we don’t encounter the words ‘art’ and ‘joke’ often enough in the same sentence, especially if ‘art’ is qualified by the...
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Whither Museums?
MOMA lobby, New York The over-population and over-use of the museum space is an issue that needs addressing. In James Cuno’s 2004 publication Whose Muse?, a group of (mostly American) museum directors...
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Dream Capture
MRI scan Scientists have developed a computerised mind-reading technique which lets them accurately predict the images that people are looking at by using scanners to study brain activity. The...
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The Art Critic Crisis, Part 2
Part 2… A former Guardian art critic, who now delivers Olympian judgments for one of the Sunday newspapers, recently moaned to me that no one took him seriously any more. The “any more” bit was a...
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Zhu Pei and New Chinese Architecture
Zhu Pei worked with a manufacturer of fiberglass-reinforced plastic to develop a translucent fiberglass block for his Blur Hotel in Beijing. The architect wanted the building, which will sit near the...
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What We Don’t See: Change Blindness
Cat’s Eye nebula (NASA) Change blindness [is] the frequent inability of our visual system to detect alterations to something staring us straight in the face. The changes needn’t be as modest as a...
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Olafur on Olafur
Excerpts from an interview with Spiegel magazine and Olafur Eliasson: Spiegel: And you are about to embark on your final victory march in America. No one will be able to overlook your four gigantic...
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Vitruvian Man, by Leonardo da Vinci In an early chapter of his interesting new book, Symmetry: A Journey Into the Patterns of Nature, Marcus du Sautoy describes a visit to the Alhambra, the great...
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Anish Kapoor at the ICA
From a review of Anish Kapoor’s new show at Boston’s ICA: Mr. Kapoor shouldn’t be considered merely derivative. He combines too many disparate strands of art, thought and culture, and he does it...
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On Portraiture
Artist’s Wife, 1439 by Jan van Eyck. Photograph: National Gallery/Groeningemuseum, Bruges As a supporter and modest collector of portraiture, I have often wondered why it is that portrait painters...
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