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Knowing Brooklyn

The New York Times  this evening has a story on "A Piece of Work," an avant-garde production at Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) that is to open Wednesday. A background…

A Life

A+ with garlands.

Sermon

Odin's Jewel Jim Holt, the author of remarks in yesterday's Saturday evening post— "It turns out that the Kyoto school of Buddhism makes Heidegger seem like Rush Limbaugh—…

Beautiful Mathematics

The title, which I dislike, is taken from a 2011 publication of the MAA, also sold by Cambridge University Press. Some material relevant to the title adjective: "For those…

Bend Sinister

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American Beauty

Or: Blackboard Jungle, Continued   Click image for   a related story.

Sacred and Profane

(Continued from yesterday afternoon) This journal on December 12th, 2009— Cover illustration— Arithmetic and Music, Borgia Apartments, The Vatican Compare and contrast with Frenkel at the Fields Institute—

Outsider Art

(Continued from yesterday afternoon) From yesterday's online New York Times  (5:59 PM ET)— ART REVIEW A Tension Between the Sacred and the Profane What exactly are we looking at?…

Unscientific Postscript

" What you mean 'we' ? "

Communion of Saints

For Hugh Jackman,  St. Gall,  and Delmore Schwartz "All the saints have powers."