Skeptophilia

A post I did a couple of weeks ago , about my view that creativity is a relationship (and thus inherently subjective, in the sense that each...

Art lovers, ever heard of the Disumbrationist Movement ? Begun in 1924 by painter Pavel Jerdanowitch, it shares some features with Primitivi...

The word creativity  is strangely hard to define. What makes a work "creative?"  The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy  states t...

I was recently chatting with a friend about how little it takes to get woo-woos all stirred up -- and how impossible it is to get them to si...

All my life, I've been pulled by two opposing forces. One of them is the chaos-brain I described in yesterday's post, which I seem t...

Yesterday, I was discussing with a friend how important it is to find things that lift your spirit. The world has been replete with dismal ...

One of the things we noticed on our tour of southern Europe -- not that it was any kind of surprise -- was the omnipresence of churches. The...

Behind every art is science. Of course, you can produce beautiful art without knowing any scientific details; the Renaissance masters create...