Building to Inspire
Some of the most important spaces on campuses are the spaces in between the buildings, the walkways, plazas, green spaces. For the buildings within the Athenaeum to be successful, they need to be connected to these exterior spaces.
The Dragon’s Pearl
Unlike the dragons of the West, the dragons of East Asia are benevolent, compassionate creatures, combining the best attributes of several animals: the talon of the eagle, the head of the lion, and the body of the serpent.
From Texas to the World
𝐹𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑇𝑒𝑥𝑎𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 assembles for the first time artworks in the DMA collection that resulted from gifts of the McDermotts, Greens, and the Jonsson Foundation, as well as works acquired during the DMA directorships of Brettell and Pitman.
Advancing Creativity, Innovation, and Cultural Enrichment
Every day, UT Dallas students and their instructors strive to make great music. Whether through individual practice, ensemble rehearsals, or studying music’s rich history, form, and theory, their hard work is evident in every performance.
Why We Need the Athenaeum
McGilchrist sees ultra-materialism as delusory because human beings, unlike linear and sequential machines, are complex systems.
How to Make Great Art More Accessible
Academic art history and the art museum grew up together in 1820s Prussia.
A Place in the Sun
Over the last few years, many academic art museums have been renovated and expanded, often after big, even heroic capital campaigns.
The Writing on the Wall
There are a handful of ways that writing goes on the wall, but the most sensuous I know is a certain size of vinyl letter.
AI and the Futures of Literature
As I watched ChatGPT instantly blurt out a “poem about Shiva in the style of Amit Majmudar” that turned out rhymed quatrains, I fell to wondering about the future of literature.
The Edith and Peter O’Donnell Jr. Athenaeum
The opening of Phase I and the groundbreaking of Phase II of the O’Donnell Athenaeum on Sept. 24 showcase the magic of what’s possible when we come together to expect the best, and bring it to life with imagination, focus and fortitude.
Expertise and Education
If one is willing to dwell on the difficulty, to be unsettled and challenged by it, one can develop a flexibility, a stamina, an imagination of thought.
The Art of Conversation and the Revival of the Humanities
Montaigne’s comparative method encourages a complex mixture of appreciation of the many ways human beings live their lives, modesty about one’s dispositions and accomplishments, and the free but unpresumptuous exercise of individual judgment about the whole.
Mark and Dot
While their careers took vastly differing paths—Tworkov had the mark and Kusama had the dot—their philosophical and gestural strategies ran in parallel, sharing a skepticism of prevailing aesthetic orthodoxies.
Joel Barlow’s Eccentric American Vision
Barlow believed that “Science and republican progress, coupled with religion and the growing humanity of man, portended the millennium, which he believed would take place on earth before the second coming of God.”
How the Bible and Paradise Lost Explain Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce Derangement Syndrome
Like Kelce and Swift, Adam and Eve were singular in their fields (they literally had no other competition) and, materially speaking, as well off as any human beings could ever hope to be.
The Modern Barbarians at the Gate
The problem is not whether to receive the expanded sense evidence, but how to do so with some authenticity and accuracy. To some extent, the issue is one of how “perception” of what is factual can be expanded by technology in such a way as to alter the perception of “reality.”
The Quiet Dr. Einstein and the Forgotten Moral Heroes of World War I
Contrasted with the daring actions of Adler and Nicolai, Einstein’s early pacifism seems very appealing because it is similar to the low-level pacifist behaviors that many of us exhibit.
