Frank Shifreen's Blog – May 2009 Archive (4)

FROM JACKSON POLLOCK TO JOHN COLTRANE — HOW CREATIVITY SPRINGS FROM A CHOREOGRAPHED SET OF MENTAL EVENTS.







Al Kooper didn’t know what to play. He’d told some half-truths to get into Bob Dylan’s recording session — the musicians were working on some song tentatively titled “Like A Rolling Stone” — and Kooper had been assigned the Hammond organ. There was only one problem: Kooper didn’t play the organ. He was a guitarist.



The first takes were predictably… Continue

How we understand the Universe is how we understand art-Frank



Adapted from Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe, by Robert Lanza with Bob Berman, published by BenBella Books in May 2009.

The farther we peer into space, the more we realize that the nature of the universe cannot be understood fully by inspecting spiral galaxies or watching distant supernovas. It lies deeper. It involves our very selves.

This… Continue

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News

German 'Venus' oldest piece of figurative art

Thursday, 14 May 2009

Agence France-Presse



Fertility icon: The Venus, carved in ivory but turned a reddish brown by millennia spent in clayey silt, comprises six fragments recovered last September.

Credit: Nicholas Conard/AFP







PARIS: She's six centimetres tall, with breasts that make Dolly Parton look flat-chested – and, at more than 35,000… Continue

Forensic Astronomer Solves Fine Arts Puzzles



Astrophysicist Don Olson breaks down the barriers between science and art by analyzing literature and paintings from the past



By Jennifer Drapkin and Sarah Zielinski

Smithsonian magazine, April 2009

In painter Edvard Munch's Girls on the Pier, three women lean against a railing facing a body of water in which houses are reflected. A peach-colored orb appears in the sky, but, curiously, casts no reflection in the water.… Continue