Art
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Fantastic Beasts Brought to Life by the Wind
An artist’s moving tribute to nature’s powerful resource. -
Who Said Science and Art Were Two Cultures?
Revisiting C.P. Snow’s infamous thesis. -
This NFT Painting Is a Work of Art
Machines are the new descendants of Picasso. -
The Natural Harmony of Faces
How the golden ratio might contribute to cinema’s hold on us. -
I Am Not a Machine. Yes You Are.
Debating the impact of machine-created art.
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The Spacetime of Fine Art
For the painter Matthew Phillips, past, present, and future meet at the tip of a brush.
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Why Do So Many Scientists Want to be Filmmakers?
The problem with C.P. Snow’s famous two-cultures hypothesis. -
Waiting For the Robot Rembrandt
What needs to happen for artificial intelligence to make fine art. -
Why Beauty Is Not Universal
We’re all human—so despite the vagaries of cultural context, might there exist a universal beauty that overrides the where and when? Might there be unchanging features of human nature that condition our creative choices, a timeless melody that guides the improvisations of the everyday? There has been a perpetual quest for such universals, because of […] -
Video Games Do Guilt Better Than Any Other Art
Game designers can make players reflect on their moral decisions in a way other art forms can’t. -
The World’s Most Inspirational Iceberg Isn’t What It Seems
The professional photographer who created a popular poster image takes it apart.
