Creativity

Heather Berlin

The neuroscience of creative flow

Culture

What exactly is going on inside our brains when we’re being creative? We ask a neuroscientist.

Artist Factory

Arts, Culture & Media

Artist Factory

Arts, Culture & Media

Sincere Painter

Arts, Culture & Media

Artist’s Choice: Mike Mills

Arts, Culture & Media

Commentary: Defying Formula

Arts, Culture & Media

Nowadays, if artists tap into a predictable formula that delivers them riches and acclaim, they stop experimenting. Studio 360’s Kurt Andersen finds reassurance in the actors, musicians, and directors who are switching gears without warning.

Neuroradiologist Aryeh Lev Stollman on Creativity and the Brain

Arts, Culture & Media

Kurt Andersen and Aryeh Lev Stollman discuss the biological foundations of creativity. Stollman is a neuroradiologist at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. He’s the author of the novels The Far Euphrates and The Illuminated Soul, and his book of short stories, The Dialogues of Time and Entropy, will be published in […]

Special Guest: Kara Walker

Arts, Culture & Media

Kurt Andersen and artist Kara Walker talk about creative darkness — from literal shadows to conceptual creepiness. Artist Kara Walker is best known for cut-out silhouettes based on highly charged images of slavery and its legacy. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Tang […]

From Renaissance Italy to Benin

Arts, Culture & Media

Rivals have been around as long as people have envied each other’s success. Sara Fisko found some places where rivalry is productive — and where it isn’t.

Living Inside the Grid

Arts, Culture & Media

Producer Simon Rentner explores how the grid has served artists throughout history.