Art Sunday: NGC 474 and the coming galactic set-to
NGC 474. Credit: P.-A. Duc (CEA, CFHT), Atlas 3D Collaboration. Image source: Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD). All the individual points of light are stars within our own Milky Way galaxy and are in the extreme foreground. The two galaxies are 10,000 times further away than the stars. There are some other galaxies in [...]
Art Sunday: Pia Stern’s wonderful way out
Pia Stern, Rondo for Galileo. Oil on canvas, 2004-05. Used with permission of the artist I’ve been thinking a lot lately and it has kind of worn me out. I tend to live in my head. There may be some good things about this, I don’t know. But it can be a real weakness, and [...]
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Art Sunday: Stories and numbers meet in the theater of the sky
Stanislaw Lubieniecki, Theatrum cometicum (The Theater of Comets). Amsterdam, 1666-68. Here, the sea monster Cetus seems ready to chow down on some comet. Image source: Out of this World from the Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering, and Technology. The interested reader will also want to investigate Thinking Outside the Sphere, another fine online exhibition [...]
Art Sunday: Seven from Sister Wendy Beckett
Pia Stern, The Room of Longing (2008). “I saw the spirituality of her images right from the start,” said Sister Wendy of Ms. Stern’s work. Wendy’s enthusiasm for Ms. Stern made me curious, and today I’m a fan. See more of her work here. Used by permission of the artist. Click on image for a [...]
Art Sunday: The spectacular Mandelbrot Set
The Mandelbrot Set, named after one Benoit Mandelbrot, who spent years studying and popularizing it. We at psnt.net are grateful for Wolfgang Beyer, who created these beautiful images and freely released them for the world to enjoy. Source of all images: Wikimedia Commons It’s Art Sunday again! This week we bring to you the Mandelbrot [...]
Art Sunday: Saturn, Titan, Enceladus, Pandora
I once heard someone from Pixar describe their work as “art by committee.” Well, today we bring you “art by gargantuan federal administration.” Left to right: Pandora, Titan, Saturn (tbsp), Enceladus. Click on the image to see a high-resolution version. Credit: NASA/JPL This is art, folks. We have defended the artistic value of the latest [...]
Introducing Art Sundays
Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe, 1918. Image source: Wikimedia Commons Today Pastor Julie preached a beautiful sermon on being open to new things. So we’re thinking it’s a great day to start a new thing. It is Transfiguration Sunday, the day Christians worldwide remember the story of Christ’s metamorphosis before the eyes of Peter, James, and [...]
