Thursday, July 19, 2007

A glance at the current issue of Significance: Weighing the beauty of fake art

A common complaint against modern art is that it requires little skill to make. Give anyone some paint and a ruler with which to draw geometric shapes and lines, and -- who knows? -- he or she could end up as the next Kandinsky. Mikhail Simkin, a research engineer at the University of California at Los Angeles, put that...

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