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Islamic artists in the 15th century used complex mathematical techniques that were unknown to Western scholars until the 1970s, a new study co-authored by a Harvard graduate student revealed. According to Harvard doctoral candidate Peter J. Lu and Princeton University Professor Paul J. Steinhardt, the authors of the study...

Author: By Sonam S. Velani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Study: Mosques Reveal Mathematical Insight | 2/26/2007 | See Source »

Spanning back to his youth, the exhibit showcases some 500 drawings and sketches (most kept for years in unopened boxes and cupboards), more than 130 photographs, and 35 paintings, like the watercolor Rain (2005), above. From cheeky doodles in pencil and pen and complex geometric shapes on matchbook covers, to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wild At Heart | 2/21/2007 | See Source »

Like a provocative lecture packed with unanswered questions, “Double Hung I,” the first of a two-part exhibition of student artwork at the Carpenter Center, left me yearning for resolution. “Double Hung I” intriguingly dangles conceptual ideas within viewers?...

Author: By Lee ann W. Custer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Double Hung | 2/8/2007 | See Source »

DIED. Effie Mae Howard, 70, reluctantly famous, critically acclaimed African-American quiltmaker whose colorful, multitextured, geometric works--designed, she said, after intense private prayer--are now in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Oakland Museum under her pseudonym, Rosie Lee Tompkins; in Richmond, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Dec. 18, 2006 | 12/10/2006 | See Source »

“Xerox was a short, unusual name for a good copy machine, so we wanted a short, unusual name for a good copy service,” said Sytek, a former nuclear engineer who later became a New Hampshire state legislator and is now a high school Latin...

Author: By Christian B. Flow, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: What’s In a Gnomon? | 10/13/2006 | See Source »

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