The Eye listens

Chapter 1 contrasts dynamical explanation in the mechanical universe (Wilczek’s “ant’s-eye view of physical reality”) with adynamical explanation in the block universe (Wilczek’s “...

A detailed and inventive study of the thinking at work in modern painting, drawing on a formidable body of scholarly evidence to challenge modernist and phenomenological readings o...

A personal and intimate view of the craft of eye-making. This is a book about artificial eyes—about the artisans and artists who make them, and about the life-changi...

Here is an in-depth exploration of Robert Forster's debut solo album, Danger in the Past (1990). Dublin, Ireland. That World Cup summer of 1990. A 21-year-old poet liste...

Sound is an integral part of contemporary art. Once understood to be a marginal practice, increasingly we encounter sound in art exhibitions through an array of sound making works ...

It’s the summer of 1979. A fifteen-year-old boy listens to WNEW on the radio in his bedroom in Brooklyn. A monotone voice (it’s the singer’s) announces into dead air in between son...