Telling Science Like a Story
Dinos and Jake Chapman, Year Zero (1996), from the exhibition Selections from the Permanent Collection, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, December 8, 1996 to April 4, 1999. Copyright 1998 Walker Art...
View ArticleParallel Lives: How Our Minds Track Patterns to Make Order from Chaos
Edward Arceneaux, House Upside Down. Graphite, gouache on paper, 2000. Courtesy of the Walker Art Center. Biologists have this term, “convergent evolution.” It describes the phenomenon wherein...
View ArticleArt and the Right-Brain Fallacy
Katharina Fritsch, Gehirn (Brain). Plaster, paint. 1987/1989 When science integrates itself into our culture so fully that people talk about their neural functions over the water cooler, that’s the...
View ArticleThe Draw of Dark Matter
The name says it all. Literally and metaphorically, dark matter (the counterpart of dark energy) possesses a mysterious and undeniable attractiveness, a certain je ne sais quoi. And I invoke the...
View ArticleA Lesson from the Cuttlefish: Art Disguised as Science
Ryuta Nakajima, Amburghese di cuore (no. 4) - photograph of cuttlefish atop Haida Sitting Eagle Crest Design by Freda Diesing, 1977 Is what Ryuta Nakajima doing art disguised as science? Or, maybe the...
View ArticleThe Fibonacci Sequence: Life Imitates Art Imitates Math
Aloe polyphylla, also known as Spiral Aloe. Photo: Brewbooks (CC license) By definition, nature does not produce art. But we like to say it does. A seascape so lovely you wish you could “hang it on...
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