What is the most difficult part about curation – both in the art world and more broadly? I grew up with a house filled with art. Art was everywhere – a Picasso print next to a painting by a friend of my parents, a Calder mobile over family photos, with some interesting Mies Van der […]
Early naysayers pessimistically predicted the Web would wash over individuality and creativity to establish a new world order of globalized boredom, but they couldn’t have been more wrong. Far from ushering in a domineering, tedious and bland monoculture, the Internet turned out to be the saving grace for the curious and their niche interest groups. […]
Kofi Annan famously described literacy as “a tool for daily modern life in modern society.” He proclaimed, “for everyone, everywhere, literacy is along with education in general, a basic human right…literacy is finally the road to human progress.” At the time he spoke these words in 1997, there was no way to know how profoundly […]
A digital renaissance and era of enlightenment is upon us. The digital polymaths of today are empowered to do things themselves that would have been near-impossible to do without an immense amount of help just a few years ago. The merging worlds of art and science through technology are creating contemporary, ultra-empowered visionaries who have […]