Image title: The Death of Socrates Medium: Oil on canvas Date: 1787 Source: The Met Collection “ One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. ” — Elbert Hubbard AI as Apprentice: What Renaissance Workshop Practices Teach Read more…
Image title: The Adoration of the Magi Medium: Distemper on canvas Date: 1472–74 Source: The Met Collection “ If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. ” — Jim Rohn Mirrors Read more…
Image title: The Birth of the Virgin Medium: Tempera and oil on wood Date: 1467 Source: The Met Collection “ The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art. ” — John Lasseter Beyond the Halo: Revisiting Sacred Light in Byzantine and Cyber Art Introduction: Light Read more…
Image title: The Forest in Winter at Sunset Medium: Oil on canvas Date: ca. 1846–67 Source: The Met Collection “ The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art. ” — John Lasseter Plastic Politics: How Environmental Crises Shape 21st-Century Art Materials Introduction: The New Material Read more…
Image title: Lupona (royal seat) Medium: Wood, metal studs Date: ca. 1840–1870 Source: The Met Collection “ Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf. ” — Albert Read more…
Image title: Musical Clock with Spinet and Organ Medium: Ebony, gliding, brass, silver gilt, gilt brass, iron, various wood and metals, wire, parchment and leather Date: ca. 1625 Source: The Met Collection “ A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes. ” Read more…
Image title: The Fortune-Teller Medium: Oil on canvas Date: probably 1630s Source: The Met Collection “ To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do. ” — Kahlil Gibran The Quantum Brushstroke: Physics at Read more…
Image title: The Abduction of the Sabine Women Medium: Oil on canvas Date: probably 1633–34 Source: The Met Collection “ If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any of them very well. ” — Warren Buffett Women with Hammers: Rewriting Sculpture’s Gender Narrative Read more…
Image title: The Birth of the Virgin Medium: Tempera and oil on wood Date: 1467 Source: The Met Collection “ Pitching is the art of instilling fear. ” — Sandy Koufax “Black Mirrors”: The Surreal Symbolism of Reflective Surfaces in Art History Introduction: The Enigma of Reflection From Read more…
Image title: The Harvesters Medium: Oil on wood Date: 1565 Source: The Met Collection “ The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world. ” — The Buddha Rust Never Sleeps: The Aesthetics of Decay in Contemporary Read more…