Benny Merris

Merris’ sensibility is as organic and fluid as it is rigorous, as filled with wonder as it is informed by a sense of scientific reason, and it consistently navigates between such positions, seeing them not as oppositional, but naturally and intimately connected.

Dean Daderko, 2014

October 4: Benjamin Merris

Eric R. Kandel, MD

Kandel’s new book “The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind and Brain” takes us back to turn-of-the-century Vienna, the place of his birth, and he writes about the salons there, where artists could mingle with writers and physicians and scientists. . . . But this isn't just an art history book. Kandel also gets deep into the science of the mind, what happens in the brain when we see a beautiful work of art, how it affects our emotions, how we recognize objects and faces, too. It is written by a neuroscientist, after all.

The Lighter Bank of the River Rhein

The Chamber Music Society of Fort Worth will present the Arianna Quartet with special guest violist, Richard Young in concert on Saturday,November 12, 2016 in the auditorium of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. The concert will begin at 2:00 pm and will be preceded by the highly popular Pre-Concert Conversation with Laurie Shulman and Gary Levinson beginning at 1:15 pm also in the auditorium.

Robert K. Wallace

My biggest challenge in writing this book has been to leave the series as free as Stella leaves the novel. Before I could set it free however, I had to take it in, to see and to know its proliferating parts. Robert K. Wallace, from “Pictorial Voyage, More Than Meets the Eye” in Frank Stella’s Moby-Dick: Words and Shapes

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