Tag: Humanities
Banksy and the tradition of destroying art
Preminda Jacob, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
When the British street artist Banksy shredded his “Girl With Balloon” after it was purchased for US$1.4 million...
Meet AICAN, a machine that operates as an autonomous artist
Ahmed Elgammal, Rutgers University
When artificial intelligence has been used to create works of art, a human artist has always exerted a significant element of...
‘Coming of Age in Mississippi’ still speaks to nation’s racial discord,...
Leigh Ann Wheeler, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Most memoirs are soon forgotten.
A rare exception is Anne Moody’s “Coming of Age in Mississippi,”...
Controversial young adult novel offers insight into Kavanaugh hearings, sexual assault
Kelly Roberts, Meredith College
The confirmation hearing of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh should remind educators of the vital need to talk to young people...
Through his art, a former prisoner diagnoses the systemic sickness of...
Nicole R. Fleetwood, Rutgers University
In 2007, Haitian-American artist Moliere Dimanche was sentenced to 10 years in Florida state prisons, where he ended up serving...
Want to live longer? Consider the ethics
John K. Davis, California State University, Fullerton
Life extension – using science to slow or halt human aging so that people live far longer...
Should we scoff at the idea of love at first sight?
James Kuzner, Brown University
For a lecture course I teach at Brown University called “Love Stories,” we begin at the beginning, with love at first...
What the grieving mother orca tells us about how animals experience...
Jessica Pierce, University of Colorado Denver
For many weeks, news of a mother orca carrying her dead infant through the icy waters of the Salish...