How Art Works: Origami
Origami is the Japanese art of folding paper into shapes without cutting or gluing. Now, this ancient art is going high-tech. The emerging field of computational origami uses computers and mathematics...
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Brain Fodder Vol. 5
It appears the Radiolab staff is giving thanks for a lot of videos this week, spanning the spectrum from sand to origami to baseball to dying cartoons (accompanied by folk music, of course). In no...
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The Portrait Gets a Facelift
Alma Haser’s portraits are conventionally stylish and slick — until you look at the face. Or what’s left of it. Her series “Cosmic Surgery” disguises portrait subjects behind a geometric origami mask...
View ArticleOrigami creatures flock to this garden sculpture show
“What inspires me about origami is its simple metaphor for life. We all begin with a blank page, what we choose to do with it is up to us and the possibilities are endless,” said artist and sculptor...
View ArticleAfter Charlottesville, the Limits of Free Speech
When is speech no longer just speech? David Remnick speaks with the author of a new and sympathetic book about Antifa, a law professor at University of California, Berkeley, and a legal analyst for...
View ArticleAfter Charlottesville, the Limits of Free Speech
When is speech no longer just speech? David Remnick looks at how leftist protests at Berkeley, right-wing violence in Charlottesville, and open-carry laws around the country are testing the traditional...
View ArticleWhat Was It Like Before the Internet?
A magical time of unfettered creativity but zero productivity, the days before the Internet were so strange that it’s hard to believe they were real. Clearly no one got anything done, ever. Jenny Slate...
View ArticleSusan Orlean Gets a Lesson in Origami
Susan Orlean likes to joke that her beat at The New Yorker is “maniacs.” Ten years ago, she wrote about a former laser physicist who had given up a successful career to become an origami artist. In...
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