Voluntary graduation
Dear Artist, Yesterday Leslie Kimball of Tehachapi, CA wrote, “I paint with a bunch of…
Yearly Archives: 2021
The power of frustration
Dear Artist, Zorana Ivcevic Pringle, director of the Creativity and Emotions lab at the Yale…
Creativity and Fundamentalism
Dear Artist, My recent mention of “Can fundamentalists be creative?” had readers scurrying to the…
The One-Percent Gambit
Dear Artist, This is a risky, time-consuming maneuver that involves pulling out a bunch of…
Painter’s high
Dear Artist, Recent studies of “runner’s high” — the well-known euphoria that kicks in when…
Why you paint
Dear Artist, In his 1946 essay “Why I Write,” English novelist George Orwell identified four…
Imitation learning
Dear Artist, Researchers at the Volen Center for Complex Systems at Brandeis University have taken…
The genius-mobile
Dear Artist, In an effort to boost creativity, I’ve begun an experiment in which I…
Remote thinking
Dear Artist, Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood has invented the LongPen. With custom software and high-speed…
An exuberant painter
Dear Artist, Jane Appleby of Burnaby, B.C. wrote, “I’m thinking I may like to put…