The “Color” of Humanity Currently in Italy giving our twice-a-year Studio Italia painting workshop. Everyone is painting hard and… playing hard. I am always fascinated by the seriousness of each participant. However, the subject of this post is the color...
Walk the Arts beats AI We knew at Walk the Arts that we had to prepare for the current upheaval of Artificial Intelligence and its impact on visual arts education. For the last quarter of a century, we have stuck to our niche and instead of offering demonstrations, we...
NFTs are here to stay! “I think the reason […] I’ve chosen the career that I have is because artists are always the seers or the truth tellers. They show us the way forward”. Nora Burnett Abrams, The Story of NFTs, Artists, Technology, and Democracy....
The search for wisdom, which is philosophy, is born from metaphysics The book is in French, but I hope that its main ideas, which I will humbly try to report in English in this summary, will provide some food for thought for us all. It is true that the word...
Contingency – Essence – Knowledge I am currently in Colombia on a beach, far away from the crowds because of the pandemic. And every year that I am on that beach, Picasso’s painting Les pauvres au bord de la mer (title in French) comes to my mind. From...
2021: Time for novelty, surprise, harmony, parsimony, and empathy. Is it possible to link neuroscience and art? This is the question that French neurobiologist Jean-Pierre Changeux addresses in his beautiful book La Beauté dans le Cerveau (Odile Jacob, 2016); The...
