Smart kids September 30, 2014 Carol L. Douglas “The smartest kid in class, by contrast, is not an expensive problem. A boy or girl who finishes an… Continue Reading →
Will your neighborhood art historian be replaced by a robot? September 29, 2014 Carol L. Douglas The most expensive painting on record is currently Paul Cezanne’s The Card Players, which sold for an estimated $259 million… Continue Reading →
Creativity September 26, 2014 Carol L. Douglas Maternity, Mary Cassatt, 1890. Cassatt never married nor had children. It would have been impossible in her era to mix her… Continue Reading →
New drug boosts creativity, cures hypertension, depression, and diabetes… and it’s free! September 25, 2014 Carol L. Douglas A young walker in the Duchy. A Stanford studyearlier this year found that walking boosts creativity. This is a real-time… Continue Reading →
Philistines, everywhere September 24, 2014 Carol L. Douglas Graffiti on the Colby Street pedestrian bridge in Rochester. I trudge over it daily, so I can certainly relate to… Continue Reading →
Everything I know about cleaning September 23, 2014 Carol L. Douglas Hercules rerouting the rivers Alpheus and Peneus to clean the Augean stables, Roman mosaic, 3rd century AD. The Fifth Labor of Hercules… Continue Reading →
Mastering chaos September 22, 2014 Carol L. Douglas Francis Bacon is the icon of messy-studio advocates. He was renowned as much for the awful state of his studio… Continue Reading →
The Glasgow Boys September 19, 2014 Carol L. Douglas A Hind’s Daughter, James Guthrie,1883 Quebec has tried twice and failed to secede from Canada. The referendum of 1995 was… Continue Reading →
Why are art babies so ugly? September 18, 2014 Carol L. Douglas The Haller Madonna, Albrecht Dürer, 1498 We interrupt this regularly-scheduled programming to address the age-old question of why babies in… Continue Reading →
Color and meaning (color temperature, part 2) September 17, 2014 Carol L. Douglas Composition VII, 1913, by Wassily Kandinsky. Three artists arrived at the idea of pure abstraction at roughly the same time: Wassily… Continue Reading →