Arthur Buxton is one of the few artists who is calculating enough to both illustrate and extend the legend of Clever Hans (click on the drawing to go to Buxton’s blog). Clever Hans was a horse that purportedly could do mathematical calculations, stamping his paw to count out the results. The truth of the matter—that […]
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Art: Boadwee rectal squirt method
Over the past few centuries, artists have successfully developed a host of imaginative and unusual methods for applying paint to canvas. But few are more colourful than the rectal squirt method developed by Keith Boadwee, Adjunct Professor of Fine Arts at the California College of the Arts, and visiting faculty member at the San Francisco […]
Why I do not work in art museums (a continuing series)
Science museum people can often only look on in bewilderment at the problems that uniquely plague art museums, including ethical, moral and legal conundrums without parallel. Recently, the Postmasters Gallery in Chelsea, NYC, gave Washington Post writer Blake Gopnik a preview of an extraordinary installation that seeks to blur the line, for once not between […]
A snail clad in graffiti
Biology and art join almost as one, in this example of graffiti on the shell of a living, city-dwelling snail. It appears in the blog Inner City Snail. (Thanks to investigator Norma Inman for bringing it to our attention.) BONUS: The artist, named Slinkachu, has a blog called “Little People“, filled with artificially (thus the […]