Beauty

Kurt Andersen and his guest, Harvard philosophy professor Elaine Scarry, look at different kinds of beauty. Elaine Scarry is the author of On Beauty and Being Just. A professor of aesthetics at Harvard University, her interests are wide-ranging; she is also the author of The Body in Pain, Dreaming By the Book, and a forthcoming […]

Kurt Andersen and philosophy professor Elaine Scarry, examine at how contemporary artists embrace and reject notions of beauty. We’ll look at artists who not only see beauty in unusual subjects — but in the unorthodox tools they use to create. A professor of aesthetics at Harvard University, Elaine Scarry is the author of On Beauty […]

For some art critics, calling a painter’s work “beautiful” is a subtle dis while calling a work “decorative” is a total slap in the face. But Fred Tomaselli’s work is decorative. It is also beautiful, smart and provocative. Tomaselli covers his canvases with beautiful arcs, ovals and swirls that he creates with medicine — actual, […]

Our culture practically makes a fetish of the beautiful woman — but who decides what is beautiful, or for that matter sexy or feminine? Jocelyn Gonzales asked two photographers why they prefer to depict female bodybuilders.