Saturday, December 31, 2005

Art: Mumbai Mirror


I got interviewed while I was in Jehangir Art Gallery.

Monday, December 05, 2005

Sunday, December 04, 2005

Zeitgeist: Everybody's An Expert

From the recent New Yorker - an excellent article about punditry - Everybody's An Expert by Louis Menand.
Excerpt:
Tetlock uses Isaiah Berlin’s metaphor from Archilochus, from his essay on Tolstoy, “The Hedgehog and the Fox,” to illustrate the difference. He says:
Low scorers look like hedgehogs: thinkers who “know one big thing,” aggressively extend the explanatory reach of that one big thing into new domains, display bristly impatience with those who “do not get it,” and express considerable confidence that they are already pretty proficient forecasters, at least in the long term. High scorers look like foxes: thinkers who know many small things (tricks of their trade), are skeptical of grand schemes, see explanation and prediction not as deductive exercises but rather as exercises in flexible “ad hocery” that require stitching together diverse sources of information, and are rather diffident about their own forecasting prowess.

Friday, December 02, 2005

Art: Karkhana


I read about this collaborative group of artists - Karkhana - in the NY Times. I am smitten by their work especially since I recently got an art piece by the Austin collborative art group Sodalitas and also because Mughal and Persian minature paintings are familiar to me. Here is the the press release from the exhibition at the Aldrich museum. And here a series of images that shows how each work progressed through the hands of each artist.