Tag science and art

October 2, 2015
in Humanities, Science

Art + Science: The Islands of Benoît Mandelbrot

October 2, 2015
in Humanities, Science

This piece at the intersection of Art + Science is a post written by a former Yale University Press intern after she visited the 2012 exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center, The Islands of Benoît Mandelbrot: Fractals, Chaos, and the Materiality of Thinking. The book that accompanied the exhibition shares its title,

July 17, 2012
in Humanities, Science

Happy Birthday, Berenice Abbott!

July 17, 2012
in Humanities, Science

After exploring her creative urges through journalism, sculpture, poetry, and theater, Berenice Abbott (1898–1991) found a home for her artistic talents in photography while working in Paris as a darkroom assistant to Man Ray. Abbott knew Ray from an earlier encounter in New York, and though at the beginning of