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Math-Art on the Bowery
While pursuing his doctorate in dynamical systems, John Sims was drawn to explore the connections between mathematics and art. Now curating a year-long series of math–art shows at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City, the conceptual artist explains his work...[pdf] [text]
Opera for the End
of the World
The dawn of the nuclear era finds its voice in Doctor Atomic, an opera about J. Robert Oppenheimer and the making of the first atom bomb. With a new production showing in New York, composer John Adams explains how physicists have reacted to the work, and how writing it has changed his view of nuclear weapons... [jpg] [text]
Iron & Wine: The Sea and the Rhythm EP
It struck everyone as a little weird that Sub Pop would be the one to issue Sam Beam's hushed folk debut. From a distance, Beam's lo-fi compositions sounded like a Harry Smith field recording plucked away by Nick Drake with Crosby, Stills & Nash on backup. But close up it was all about the poetry: concrete, ambiguous, and laced with tender irony...
Castro Alves: Brazil's Abolitionist Poet
If you're a kid in Bahia, Brazil, you are familiar with the bronze statue depicting slaves being whipped on top of the memorial theater bearing his name. When you memorize his poems in school, you learn that he's more...
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