An Artistic Experiment in Time Travel

Can art be experienced again as revolutionary? Can we travel back in time to see art as it was initially experienced? Two experiences, one accidental, one deliberate, suggest it can. Continue ReadingAn Artistic Experiment in Time Travel

The Digitization of Eternity: Humans Grow Old and Die, Should Not Art?

Can technology preserve artworks without changing them? Rothko painted five murals in 1962 for a room on the 10th floor of Harvard’s Holyoke Center. Sunlight and the chemically unstable paints Continue ReadingThe Digitization of Eternity: Humans Grow Old and Die, Should Not Art?

The Last Picture Show

Works of art lie. Photographs of art deceive. Who has not seen a picture of the Creation of Adam in the Sistine Chapel? You see it as a majestic, inspired Continue ReadingThe Last Picture Show

Understanding Art

The western side of the Pergamon Altar as reconstructed in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. © Raimond Spekking / , via Wikimedia Commons

Listen to what moves you, and if it isn’t what you expect, rejoice in the surprise.” Susan Bell, The Artful Edit Not everyone is gifted with equal degrees of physical Continue ReadingUnderstanding Art

Art in the Age of Cloud Computing

Picasso: Tête de Taureau

Imagine a future in which an art work could be subject to mechanical reproduction anywhere, at any time. Is this a utopia or a nightmare? In 1928, Paul Valéry wrote Continue ReadingArt in the Age of Cloud Computing