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Plato for Rebecca Goldstein

"… geometry will draw the soul towards truth…." — Plato Or not.

High White Noon

(Continued) You can't make this stuff up.

Sermon

Conceptual Art for Basel

The previous post's link to The Lindbergh Manifesto and Thursday's post on Basel-born artist Wolf Barth  suggest the following — See as well a June 14 New York Times piece…

Rahmenprogramm

See also Wenders and Lindbergh in this journal.

Footnote

There is  such a thing as geometry.* * Proposition adapted from A Wrinkle in Time , by Madeleine L'Engle.

Schoolgirl Problem

The star of the new film "Chappie" is on tour.

Expanding the Spielraum

(Continued from Feb. 3, 2015) The above artist  Wolf Barth is not the same person as the mathematician  Wolf Barth quoted in the  previous post.  For further background…

Slow Art, Continued

The title of the previous post, "Slow Art," is a phrase of the late art critic Robert Hughes. Example from mathematics: Göpel tetrads as subsets of a 4×4 square…

Slow Art

Slowness is sometimes in the eye of the beholder. See this journal on Slow Art Day 2015. Related material: Epistemic States in this journal.