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Today, a three-day conference titled Philosophy of Street Art: Art in and of the Street begins at Pratt Institute and New York University. An active graffiti and street art spot in Williamsburg, ...

SAINT-PAUL DE VENCE, France — The very idea of philosopher as art curator deeply interests me. One swiftly dreams of what Gilles Deleuze might have done with the opportunity to curate an art ...

THIS has been a century of strange conversions, and not least strange among these is Count Leo Tolstoy’s abdication of an art in which he had won worldwide reputation for the rôle of prophet and ...

SCIENCE, LIKE ART, is a human expression. Roald Hoffmann has given a great deal of thought to how to convey this truth, which lies at the heart of the essays collected in his new book. He understands, ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Roger Ebert's recent comments about video games and their potential as art, and especially the immense stir the comments caused on discussion forums ...

Evolution and culture -- Defining art -- Aesthetics and the philosophy of art -- Varieties of art -- Interpretation -- Expression and emotional responses -- Pictorial representation and the visual ...

In a world that is filled with people who constantly want to put their hands into something or the other and forever remain productive, the concept of doing nothing probably sounds like a total waste ...

IF this manual has a fault, it is not that it is ill-done but that it is done too well. The author has instilled into his account of art a complete philosophy of life. Perhaps it was impossible to ...