Ignition of gunpowder to create Cai Guo-Qiang's "White Tone," Brookhaven, New York, April 8, 2016 (photo by Wen-You Cai, courtesy Cai Studio) LOS ANGELES — A large piece of white nylon stretches ...
The poet Sylvia Plath was unable to turn creation into self-creation, the construction of new and valuable aspects of personality and emotion. Although much of her poetry is full of vibrant and ...
In his landmark book Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy, the economist and political scientist Joseph Schumpeter coined the term “creative destruction” — the idea that in a capitalistic society, ...
We were all artists at one point. At least that’s Dr. Brandon Davison-Tracy’s theory: The pediatrician and abstract painter posits that, somewhere along the line, adults start to suppress the joy of ...
The cycle of life is creation, life, destruction, and rebirth. Designer and graffiti artist Mike Han is adding another layer to that: preservation through destruction. Rather than birthing something ...
In the late 1990s-early-2000s timeframe, the term “creative destruction” came into vogue, as digital-native businesses swept away cobwebs in their respective markets, spurring an ensuing wave of ...