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Seminal Flag Painting by Jasper Johns Now On Display

Jasper Johns (b. 1930), Flag, 1960-1966, encaustic and printed paper collage on paper laid down on canvas, 17 x 26 inches. PHILADELPHIA, PA.- This summer, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) will feature JASPER JOHNS: FLAG, one of…

Unusual Postage Stamps

This stamp was sold in a foil-wrapped booklet, similar to most chocolate bars. However, the stamp merely smells like chocolate and apparently when licked tastes exactly like glue: More…

And Another Pioneer In Computer Graphics

David Em started as a painter but in 1974 began to experiment with electronic manipulations of TV images. This led to his involvement with the Xerox Research PARC in Palo Alto and to collaboration with computer graphics pioneers Alvy Ray Smith and…

Even More Pioneers In Computer Graphics

Lillian Schwartz is an artist, filmmaker, art historian, researcher and theorist. Her work was the first in the medium of computer art to be acquired by The Museum of Modern Art (New York), and has works in many other collections including the Wie…

More Pioneers In Computer Graphics

Georg Nees was pupil of Max Bense, the founder of Information Aesthetics. Nees, together with Herbert Franke and Frieder Nake were pioneers of Computer Art in Europe. They arranged the first exhibition of computer art at the Technische Hochschule …

Pioneers In Computer Graphics

Charles A. Csuri is an artist and computer graphics pioneer and a Professor at the Ohio State University. He exhibited his paintings in New York City from 1955-1965. Examples of early works are in the collections of Walter P. Chrysler, movie actor…

The Next Generation of the Automobile

Clockwise from top left: the GM/Segway PUMA concept, Tesla’s Model S, Tesla’s Roadster, and MIT Media Lab’s CityCar As part of its excellent Cars, Culture and the City exhibit, the Museum of the City of New York brought together some of the keenes…

Mark Twain’s Autobiography

After keeping us waiting for a century, Mark Twain will finally reveal all. The great American writer left instructions not to publish his autobiography until 100 years after his death, which is now. Exactly a century after rumors of his death tur…

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