Thank You, Chet & Karen Opalka!

THANK YOU to all of our collaborators over the last 20 years! We especially want to acknowledge our founding and sustaining supporters,Chet & Karen Opalka In case you missed it, please enjoy this tribute to the Opalkas, made in collaboration with Russell Sage College, YouthFX, and Opalka Gallery. We’re excited for the next 20 years!

History May Absolve the Soup Throwers

Written By Andreas Malm, Published by The New York Times Vincent van Gogh is not responsible for our climate breakdown. He was not the C.E.O. of an oil and gas company or a coal merchant. In fact, van Gogh started drawing and painting while living amid the smoke and cinder in a Belgian coal district. Besides “Sunflowers,”…

David Salle: Bogus Art, or a Bogus View of Art?

Article by Dr. Melody Davis Published on thealt.com March 29, 2017 David Salle’s March 23 talk at University at Albany, hosted by Joe Donahue and recorded by WAMC radio, was a promotional vehicle for Salle’s How to See: Looking, Talking and Thinking About Art, a new book of art criticism published by W. W. Norton. Beginning…

Something Surprising About People Who Read Fiction

Science Shows Something Surprising About People Who Still Read Fiction By Gabe Burgado They tend to be more empathetic toward others. The study: A 2013 Emory University study looked at the brains of fiction readers. Researchers compared the brains of people after they read to the brains of people who didn’t read. The brains of the readers —…