Welcome to the Science & the Arts Blog!
Since 2000, Science & the Arts has produced 100 public events that bring science to the public through the arts. See our list of current and past programs to get an idea of the breadth of our offerings. Occasionally we have presented a program outside of our building – at a lab, a high school, or a street fair – and we have worked with institutions in the US and abroad to encourage such programming, but our audience to date has been almost entirely in New York City. Now we hope to interact with you, wherever you are.
Write for this blog. We would like to receive your reviews, thought pieces, and news on any of the arts – theater, film, visual art, dance, literature, etc – when the artform contains ideas from science or math. Or write about science informed by art.
Your words will reach the eyeballs of the interdisciplinary world.
Submit your blog entries to me, Adrienne Klein, co-Director of Science & the Arts, at aklein@gc.cuny.edu with “Blog†in the subject line. I look forward to hearing from you.
January 19th, 2008 at 2:12 am
Thinking about intersections of science & the arts, I think of a passage by the scholar William Cronon: “More than anything else, being an educated person means being able to see connections that allow one to make sense of the world and act within it in creative ways. … A liberal education [in the intellectual, not the political sense] is about gaining the power and the wisdom, the generosity and the freedom to connect.†(http://www.williamcronon.net/writing/Cronon_Only_Connect.pdf)
In this day and age of increasing academic specialization and decreasing ability for cross-disciplinary understanding, islands of discourse are sorely needed. True innovation has in the past and will in the future spring most successfully at intellectual cross-roads.
April 7th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
art education
Interestingly, this was on CNN last week.