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
The idea that motion pictures can be works of art has been around since the 1920s, and it hasn’t really been disputed since. It’s easy to see why—cinema shares characteristics with theater in terms of acting, direction, music, set design, narrative, and so on. Now we have whole academic departments dedicated to film appreciation, to […] -
The World’s Most Inspirational Iceberg Isn’t What It Seems
The professional photographer who created a popular poster image takes it apart.
