Faculty Reading: Arts & Music

Newsweek article about the use of egg white in paint during the Renaissance. Behind a paywall, so see a librarian for help getting it.

From Scientific American: Over a century ago, the ability to draw was a necessity. No cameras, printers, copiers, or online images - if you wanted to convey information visually, you had to do it yourself.

Not as much, I grant, as philosophers need music, but nevertheless the need is real.

Game involving the art of Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan

How did you learn your alphabet? Was there a song involved? Have you ever taught the alphabet to a three-year-old? Did you do so without a song? Think about what it would be like to teach it without the song. Would the child learn it rapidly? Would the child even be interested in learning it?

From Pamono: It has served as a source of biomimetic stimuli for RISD students and faculty across disciplines for decades, as well as a forum for exploring the often subtle connections among man, nature, art, and design.

Schools are increasingly using movement and expression as vehicles for teaching kids social-emotional skills.

This 16-year-old says taking GCSE dance was the best decision she ever made – why is everyone so negative about it?

Electronic Superhighway is a new exhibit at London’s Whitechapel Gallery. This is art in 2016: almost impossible to separate from digital technology.

TedTalk by Artist R. Luke DuBois

A clip from StarTalk, a late-night talk show on the National Geographic Channel hosted by renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, has generated buzz lately.