Tag: Kurt Andersen
Obama and the arts
Dana Gioia, outgoing chairman of the NEA on the importance of the President-elect's appreciation of the arts....
The art of perception of art
Dr. Denis Pelli researches how we read, identify shapes, even why we find art compelling....
Ask a Harvard Psychologist
Howard Gardner -- who developed the theory of multiple intelligences -- on the power of changing our minds and our lives....
Annie Leibovitz interview
The photographer reminisces about her work at “Rolling Stone,†which is collected in her new book, "At Work."...
Design for the Real World: Santa
Design guru Steven Heller explains how Father Christmas became branded as a jolly bearded old man in a red suit....
The legacy of Bell Labs
In the second half of the 20th century, Bell Labs was a hotbed of unfettered creativity, churning out inventions, patents, and Nobel Prizes. ...
Aha Moment: "Love and Rockets"
Comic book author-illustrator Jessica Abel has a gift for depicting paralyzing awkwardness -- she works from experience....
You're a Complicated Man, Charlie Brown
Peanuts comic strip creator Charles Schulz led a much darker life than anyone ever realized, and he put his troubles into the funny pages every day....
Russian author Irina Reyn
For her first novel Reyn took Tolstoy’s 'Anna Karenina' and wrote a modern update set among Russian immigrants in Queens....
Design of the baseball cap
Lifelong baseball fan and graphic designer Steven Heller looks at the quintessentially American piece of headgear -- the baseball cap....
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