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Visualizing visualizations
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I’d seen this Graph that Eric Roberts has put together, based on current enrollment and 10 year trends from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This suggests that Engineering is just slightly over-subscribed (which Eric says is fine — you don’t want the lowest quartile students building your bridges), physical sciences is okay, and biological sciences…
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January 21, 2011, 1:30 PM At Wesleyan, a Program for Performance Art Curators By PATRICIA COHEN As the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance at Wesleyan University says, performance art “is first and foremost a social experience that happens on a person-to-person level.” That has not stopped the institute from creating a new professional certificate…
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PROFILE of John Baldessari. Andy Warhol’s shadow hangs heavy over the international art world, but not in L.A., where the most relevant artist of the moment, the seventy-nine-year-old John Baldessari, said recently that he “hadn’t thought about Warhol in forty years.” Baldessari’s endlessly surprising retrospective, which was on view all summer at the Los Angeles…
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The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.
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Hello. I work as an interaction designer in London. At the minute, I’m mixing freelance and personal projects with a part-time role as Lead Designer at a company called BERG, where I’m based for four days a week. I’ve worked freelance on and off since 2003, with companies such as RIG, Airside, Wieden+Kennedy, The BRIT…
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Next month, Tate Modern will host a stellar group show entitled Pop Life. Apparently, the show was going to be called Sold Out – a much more provocative and, some would say, apposite title, given that among the themes addressed by the curators is the notion of the artist as brand. Think Damien Hirst, think…