Eat All You Can is the title of a show of paintings by UK-based South Korean artist Ha Young Kim, currently on display at London’s Hoxton Art Gallery through October 4th. Kim’s colorful paintings, often in acrylic on translucent drafting film, focus on humans as consumers, of food, goods, “public emotions” and especially technology. Continue reading “The Art of Science: Consuming Technology”
Systematic experimentation is the backbone of the scientific method. That’s why your cat keeps pushing things off tables.
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Alex Parker is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, focusing on the formation and evolution of planetary systems. His work involves a lot of starry nights. So when cloudy weather gave him a stretch of downtime at the observatory, it seemed like a fun idea to transform some of the stunning images from the Hubble Space Telescope into an homage to Vincent Van Gogh’s famous painting. Continue reading “The Art of Science: Starry Night”
The number of lolz based on Schrodinger’s famous thought experiment would fill many boxes. But this one may require a whole new approach.
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Courage Unmasked, an art exhibit at the Katzen Art Center in Washington, DC, consists of 59 sculptures incorporating radiation masks previously worn by head and neck cancer patients. Each radiation mask, made of plastic mesh, is heated and fitted individually to the patient prior to treatment so the head and neck can remain perfectly still, allowing the radiation to be precisely directed and avoid damage to healthy tissue. Not surprisingly, many patients who have used these masks never want to see them again. “Some people run over them with cars,” noted artist Jessica Beels, one of the organizers of the exhibit. But some donated theirs to be turned into works of art, which in turn will be auctioned off to support other cancer patients. Continue reading “The Art of Science: Courage Unmasked”
The Finch and Pea 