Drawing & Prints Archive

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    An Imperfect World

    Follow @yaleSCIbooks The early days of scientific investigation resulted in extraordinary collaborations between the artistic community and the scientific one.  Many examples of these concerted efforts to explore, chart, map, […]

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    The Art of Laughter and Persuasion: Infinite Jest Opening @ The Met

    Making faces is funny.  Kids recognize the humorous possibilities of twisted features and exaggerated expressions, as they distort their own faces in an effort (usually successful) to make one another […]

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    Images of Space: Then and Now

    Photographs from this month’s Perseid meteor shower from the International Space Station follow a long tradition of science and art blurring boundaries between each other. As curator Susan Dackerman argues in Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, the catalog for Harvard Art Museums’ exhibition opening September 6, art and science often have a close relationship with only vaguely definable boundaries.

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    An Even More Complicated Dalí—Yes, Really

    Most people are unlikely to associate science and religion with a man who is best known for painting melting clocks, who threw buckets of paint on nude models, and who […]

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    Shape Up: Understanding Cubism with Picasso and Braque

    “I continue to enjoy looking at Cubist pictures as much as I ever did, but I have come increasingly to realize that I do not really understand them, and I […]

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